Chords for Stan Rogers - The House of Orange

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_ _ _ _ _ [D] I took back [C] my hand and I [F] showed him the [C] door.
_ _ No dollar [D] of mine would [C] I part [Gm] with this day
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] For fueling [Dm] the engine [Bb] of a bloody cruel [F] _ war
_ _ [Gm] In my _ [Dm] forefather's home [C] far _ away
_ Who [Dm] fled the [C] first famine [Bb] wearing all that [F] they owned
_ _ Were called _ [D] _ [Cm] navigators all ragged [Gm] _
and torn
[Bb] _ And [F] built the grand [D] trunk [Bb] here and found a [F] new home
_ _ _ [D] Wherever _ [C] their children [F] were born _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Their sons [C] have no _ politics [Bb] none can [F] _ _
recall
_ _ _ _ Allegiance [D] from long [C] _ generations [Gm] _ _
before
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] Oh, this oar, [D] oh, that name [Bb] can't matter [F] at _ all
_ _ [Gm] Or be [D] cause enough [C] for to war
_ _ [D] And meanwhile [C] my babies [Bb] are safe [F] in their homes
_ _ _ Unlike their [D] pale cousins [C] who [Gm] cower and cry
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] While _ kneecappers [D] nail [Bb] their poor dads to [F] the floor
_ _ [D] And teach them [C] to hate [F] and to die
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_ [Dm] It's those cruel [C] beggars [Bb] who spurn the [F] fair coin
_ _ The peace for their [Dm]
kids they [Cm] could take [Gm] at their _ will
[Bb] _ _ [F] Since the day old [Dm] King Billy [Bb] _ _ prevailed at [F] the boy
_ _ _ [Gm] They've bombed and [Dm] they've maimed and [C] they've killed _
Now they [Dm] cry out [C] for money _ [Bb] and wail [F] at the door _
_ _ But home rule [Dm] or republic _ [C] is all of [Gm] it shame
_ [Bb] _ _ And [F] a curse for [Dm] us here who [Bb] want nothing [F] of war
_ _ [Dm] We're kindred in [C] nothing [F] but _ name
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[Dm] rights and [C] all wrongs have [Bb] long since blown [F] _ away _ _ _
For causes [D] are ashes [Cm] where children [Gm] lie _ _ [Bb] slain _
[F] Yet the damned _ _ [D] UDL [Bb] and the cruel _ [F] IRA _ _ _
Will [Gm] tomorrow [D] go _ [C] murdering _ again
_ But [Dm] no penny of [C] mine will [Bb] I add [F] to the fray _ _ _
Remember _ [Dm] the boy and they will [C]
cry [Gm] out in _ [Bb] vain
For [F] I've given [Dm] my heart [Bb] to the place I [F] was born _ _
And [Gm] forgiven _ [Dm] the whole [C] house of _ _ Orange
[Dm] King Billy and [C] the whole [F] house of _ _ _ Orange _ _ _
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