Chords for THE DRUIDS - THE SNIPER'S PROMISE (BalconyTV)

[Em] [B] Welcome to Balcony TV Dublin.
It's Sunday the 21st of June in widescreen and high-definition joining [G#] me on the balcony are the Druids _ _
_ _ _ All the way I'm told from County Kildare
_ Guys, what are you gonna play?
We're gonna do a song about a an Irish soldier
And this Irish soldier had been out fighting for freedom for years and years
And he always waited for the time that peace would come [B]
and he longed for that time
[G#] And it's a lovely song [N] called the snipers promise
Snipers promise.
Okay, take it away
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ The night was icy cold
I [F#m] stood alone
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while waiting
On that army [E]-bodied soul
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And when at last he came into [F#m] my sight I
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squeezed the trigger of my
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Carmelite
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] Oh Mama, _ Oh Mama
_ [F#m] Comfort me
_ _ _ _ [B] For I know these awful things have got [E] to be
_ [B] Hey
_ _ [E] But when that war of freedom [F#m] has been won
_ _ _ _ _ [B] I promise you ma
I'll throw away [A] my gun
_ _ [E] _ _ _ A shot rang out I heard a soldier [F#m]
cry
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Oh, please don't leave me here alone [E] to die
_ [B] I _ _ _ [E] _
realized his army had [F#m] run away
_ _ _ _ _ [B] And they left a wounded comrade for [E] me to slay
[B] _ _ _ _ [E]
Oh Mama, _ Oh Mama [F#m] Comfort me _ _ _ _ _
[B] For I know these awful things have [E] got to be
_ Hey
[B] _ _ _
[E] But when this war of freedom [F#m] has been won _ _ _ _ _
[B] I'll promise you ma.
I'll throw [A] away my gun
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There's nothing _ in this world.
I [F#m] would not do _ _ _ _ _
[B] If there's mercy in your heart you let me [E] live
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And in his eyes I saw a [F#m] look of pain _ _ _ _ _
[B] As the muzzle of my gun
_ [E] Moved towards his brain
[B] _ _ _ _ [E]
Oh Mama, _ Oh Mama [F#m] Comfort me
_ _ _ _ For [B] I know these awful things have [E] got to be
_ [B] Hey
_ And [E] _
when this war of freedom [F#m] has been won
_ _ _ _ [B] Yes, I'll promise you ma.
_ I'll throw away [A] my gun
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The dawn was breaking as I reached [F#m] my face
_ _ _ _ _ [B] Yes, I will not forget the look on [E] that boy's face
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He ragged on me and torment [F#m] were all there
_ _ _ _ [B] Oh, but to your memory
Mama [E] is life I spared
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] Oh Mama, _ Oh Mama
_ [F#m] Comfort me
_ _ _ _ [B] For I know these awful things have got [E] to be
_ [B] Hey
_ _ [E] But when this war for freedom [B] has [F#m] been won
_ _ _ _ _ [B] I'll promise you ma.
I'll throw away [A] my gun
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] Yes, I'll promise you ma.
_ I'll throw away [A] my gun _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ Yeah!
_ _ _ _ Well that's cheered me up anyway
_ _ _ For all you snipers out there, that's for you guys
That was the happy version _ _
Yes, very nice guys.
Thank you very much
Beautiful song if not [F] a little bit somber from a different [F#m] time.
Guys, what's coming up here?
What are you [C] doing regularly?
[G] Well, we're playing a lot of gigs around County [F#] Kildare _
We're kind [Bm] of out three four nights a week around County [E] Kildare also branching out down around the country as well
Down the Cork, down [N] the Wexford.
I love this image of a bar with lots of snipers sitting in the street waiting for that song
They love it.
They love it.
They absolutely love it.
I'm told you don't have a MySpace.
You have a Bebo.
We have indeed, yeah.
We stuck with the Bebo.
We're traditionalists
So we stuck with the Bebo.
Give us the Bebo address then.
It's www.bebo.com
forward slash _ druids32
So if you like what you've heard there, you can check the guys out on that.
Guys, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank _ you.
Tune in to another Balcony TV in widescreen and high definition tomorrow.
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