Chords for Joe Mc Donnell

into their story.
_ _ _ Please tell me to sing of a young man from Belfast
called Joe McDonald.
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh, me name is Joe McDonald. _
[G] From Belfast town [D] I came.
[G] A city I [D] will never see [A] again. _ _ _ _ _
[D] For in the town of Belfast I [G] spent many happy [D] _ days.
[G] I love the town in [D] oh so [A] many _ ways. _ _ _ _
[Em] For it's there [G] I [D] spent my [G] childhood _ and found for me a [D] wife. _
[Em] I then [G] set out to [D] make for [A] her a life.
_ _ _ _ [D] But all my young ambitions _ [G] met with bitterness [D] and hate.
[G] I soon found myself [D] _ inside a prison [A] _
gate.
_ _ And _ [Em]
you dare to [G] call me a terrorist
while [Em] you [G] put down [D] your gun
[Em] when I think [G] of [D] all the deeds that you [A] have done.
_ _ _ _ You have [D] plundered many nations, _
divided _ many lands.
[G] You have _ terrorized their peoples.
You ruled with an iron [A] hand.
_ [D] You brought this [F#m] reign [D] of terror to [A] my land.
_ _ _ Through [D] those many months' _ internment
[G] in the maelstrom and [D] the maze,
[G] I thought about [D] my land throughout [A]
those days.
_ Why _ [D] my country _ was divided.
_ [G] Why I was now [D] in jail.
_ [G] _
Imprisoned without [D] crime or without [A] _
trial.
_ _ _ _ [Em] And though I [G] love my country,
[Em] I am not a bitter [D] man.
_ [Em] I've seen cruelty [G] and [D] injustice at [A] first hand.
_ _ _ _ [D] So then one fateful morning,
_ [G] I shook bold [D] freedom's hand.
[G] For right or wrong, [D] I'd try to [Bm] free [A]
my land.
_ _ _ _ [Em] And you dare [G] to call me a terrorist
[Em] while you [G] put down [D] your gun
[Em] when I think of all [D] the deeds that you [A] have done.
_ _ _ _ You [D] have plundered many nations, _
divided many _ lands.
You [G] have _ terrorized their peoples.
You ruled with an iron [A] hand.
And [D] you brought this reign of terror to [A] my land.
_ _ _ [D] Then one cold _ October's morning,
_ _ [G]
trapped in a [D] lion's den,
_ _ [G] I found myself [D] in prison once [A] _
again.
_ _ _ I [D] was committed to the H [Bm]-blocks
[G] for _ fourteen [D] years or more.
[G] And the blanket, the [D] conditions, they [A] were poor.
_ _ _ _ [Em] That a hunger [G] strike, we did commence
[Em] for the [G] dignity [D] of man.
[Em] But it seemed to me [D] that no one gave [A] a damn.
_ _ _ _ [D] But now I am a [Bm] saddened man.
[G] I've watched my comrades [D] die.
_ [G] If only _ [D] people cared, I [A] wondered _ why.
_ _ _ [Em] And you dare to [G] call me a terrorist
[Em] while you [G] put down [D] your gun
[Em] when I think [G] of [D] all the deeds that you [A] have done.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] You have plundered many nations, _ _
_ _ divided many lands.
[G] You have _ terrorized their peoples.
You ruled with an iron [A] hand.
And [D] you brought this reign of terror to [A] my land.
_ _ _ _ [D] May God shine on you for these sins,
[G] for the courage you [D] have shown.
May [G] your glory and your [D] fame be [A] widely known.
_ _ _ _ [D] And Francis Hughes and Dwayne McCreish,
[G] who died _ _ [D] _ unselfishly,
[G] and Patsy O'Hara, [D] the next in line [A]
is me.
_ _ _ _ [Em] And those [G] who lie behind me,
[Em] may your [G] courage be [D] the same.
[Em] And I pray [G] to God [D] my life is not [A]
in _ _ vain.
_ [D] Ah, but sad and bitter was the year [G] of _ _ _ [D] 1981
for [G] _
everything [D] I've lost and all things [A] won. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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