Chords for The Corries --- The Folker

_ _ Well, _ _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ my name is Fingers Murphy, but my _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ story's [B] seldom told.
[A] I massacre folk music [G] with a yard of German plywood [D] and a plectrum.
I do [Bm] request _ [A] that the ones that [G] have two chords in, that I disregard [D] the rest.
[A] _ _ _ [Em] Na na na na na na na [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ na
Well, I stand on stage the hero, a martyr to my trade,
[A] and I carry the reminders [F#] [B] of all the gigs I've played in,
[D] like the Irish club in Luton. _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ [A] With the imprint of [G] a Guinness bottle stamped [Bm] across me ear.
[A] Na na na _ _
[Em] na [A] na na na na [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ na
Seeking twenty with excuses.
I went looking [B] for a gig, [A] no verse,
just [B] to come on from a [D] groupie up in Kneesley. _
You've beaten there, have you?
_ _ _ I [Bm] do declare
_ [A] I was feeling [G] rather undy, so I had her [Bm] then and there.
[A] _ _ _
[Em] Na na na [A] na _ [D] _ _ na na na [Bm] na na
Na _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ na [Em] na na na na [D] na na na na na _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Well, I have sung the folk tradition with my finger [B] and my ear,
[A] because half the stuff I'm singing, I [G] just can't bear to hear.
It's a [D] load of cobbler's, ba [Bm] da ta ba
_ _ [E] To the rhythm [Em] of an out of tune Japanese [D] guitar.
[A] _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Well I met this great guitarist, I asked him for [B] advice,
[A] But the message that he gave me [G] wasn't very nice,
Or [D] even civil.
_ Stick it [Bm] where?
_ _ _ _ _ And if I [B] did, how could I [G] tune it with that stuck [D] way up there?
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_ _ [N] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _