Paddy Chords by Mike Denver

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_ _ _ _ From his window he watches his people _ _ come _ _ and go on [G] their way _ _ _
rushing [Dm] to catch the [G] train _ _ homewards as he often did [C] in his day _ _ _ _ _
remembers the dark of the mornings _ _ _ days he worked in [G] the rain _ _ _ _
good times the [Dm] bad times [G] and the friends that he knew _ [Dm]
he'll never [G] see [C] them again _ _ _ _
night when the streets are deserted _ _ _ except for the takeaway [G] _
signs
_ _ he thinks of [Dm] the men [G] that he worked with _ _ on the buildings the roads [C] and the mines
_ _ the girl that he met in the galley _ _ _ thought he might make her [G] his own _ _ _ _
maybe [Dm] if there was [G] less drinking _ he [Dm] _
wouldn't [G] have wound up [C]
alone
_ _ P [F] _
is for powerful when put to the test [C]
A is for _ always doing your best
[F]
D is for doing if it can be done [D] and G is for drinking [G] when working was done
_ [F]
Y is for yearning to see home again _ [C]
proud to be Irish and hard-working men
_ [F] _
Paddy remember though your day is done you're [G] the rock that England [C] stands _ _ on _ _
_ _ _ he can never _ explain just what happened _ _ _ _ years seem to pass like [G] a day _ _ _ _
was it [Dm] the rain or [G] the shovel _ that just ran from his limbs [C]
away
_ _ _ sometimes _ he thinks of the boring _ _ that led from his house [G] to the lane
_ _ _ and the fields that [Dm] he worked with [G] his father _ _ [Dm] he'll never [G] see [C] them again
_ _ _ [F]
P is for powerful when put to the test [C]
A is for _ always doing your best
[F]
D is for doing if it can be done [D] and D is for drinking [G] when working was done
_ [F]
Y is for yearning to see home again _ [C]
proud to be Irish and hard-working men
_ [F] _
Paddy remember though your day is done you're [G] the rock that England _ [C]
stands on _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ [D] as he makes his way back to the shelter _ _ _ rain starts to fall on [A] the ground
_ a _ young man [Em] just in from [A] Cork City _ _ _ asks him where work [D] could be found
_ he said son take a long look at Paddy _ _ and remember _ whatever [A] you do
_ _ this broken old [Em] man that [A] you're seeing _ _ was [Em]
once a [A] young fella [D] like you
_ _ [G] P is for powerful when put to the test [D]
A is for always doing your best
[G]
D is for doing if it can be done [E] and D is for drinking [A] when working was done
_ [G]
Y is for yearning to see home again _ [D]
proud to be Irish and hard-working men
_ [G] _
Paddy remember though your day is done you're [A] the rock that England [D]
stands on _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
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