Chords for the wakes st pats battalion

[A] _ _ My name is John Riley
_ And [D] I'll have you here only [A] a while
_ When [D] I first left my home in [A] old Ireland _ _
It was death, [E] _ starvation, [F#m] or exile _ _
[D] When _ I came to [A] America
_ _ It [D] _ was my duty [F#m] to go _ _ _ _
[A] Enter the army [D] and slog across Texas _
[E] to join in the war
[F#m] Against Mexico _ _
[D] And _ _ [E] _ _
[A] it was there in the Pueblos and hillsides _ _
[D] That I saw the mistake [A] I had made
_ _ I [D] was part of a conquering [A] army
_ _ With the morals [E] of a bayonet [F#m] blade
_ _ And _
[D] _ amidst all those poor [A] dying Catholics _ _
[D] Screaming children, a burning stench of it [F#m] all _ _ _ _ _
[A] Myself _ [E] and 200 [F#m] Irishmen
_ We _
[D] decided [E] to rise to [F#m] the call but
From [D] Dublin City
To [A] San Diego _ _ _
[E] We witnessed freedom [F#m] denied _ _ _
[D] So we formed the St.
Patrick [A] _ Battalion _ _
[E] And we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side
_ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] Battalion _ _ _
[E] And we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A]
We fought in the green flag of St.
Patrick _ _ _
[D] In blazing with barren [A] Gabra
_ And _
[D] _ raised with a heart [A] like the shamrock _ _
A libertad [E] para la _
[F#m] republica _ _ _ _
[D] _ Just 50 years [A] after the war broke
_ _ And [D] 5,000 miles [F#m] away
_ _ _ The [A] young scholars, [E] a legion of [F#m] strangers _ _ _
[D] They _ [E] can talk [F#m] as they may but
From [D] Dublin City _ to [A] San Diego _ _ _
[E] We witnessed freedom [F#m] denied
_ _ So [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] side
_ _ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side
_ We [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] fought them in _ Matalores
_ _ While [D] the volunteers were raping [A] the _ nuns _
[D] And in Monterrey and [A] Cerro Gordo _ _ _
While we fought them [E] as [F#m] Ireland's sons
_ _ We [D] were red-headed fighters [A] for freedom _ _ _
[D] Amid brown-skinned women _ [F#m] and men
_ _ Side [A] by side [E] we fought _
[F#m] against tyranny _
[D] And I dare say [E] we'd do it [F#m] again
But from [D] Dublin City _ to San [A] Diego _ _ _ _
[E] We witnessed freedom [F#m] _ denied _ _
[D] So we formed the St.
Patrick [A] _ Battalion
_ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side
_ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
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[F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
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[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ From Dublin [D] City _ to San [A] Diego _ _ _ _
[E] We witnessed freedom [F#m] denied
_ _ So [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] _ Battalion
_ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] side
_ _ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] _ side _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A]
We fought them in five major battles _ _ _ _
[D] Cherugusco _ _ was [A] the last _ _ _ _
[D] _ Overwhelmed by the cannons [A] from Boston _ _ _
While we fell [E] with _ [F#m] mortar blast _ _ _ _
[D] Most of us died on the [A] hillside
_ In [D] the service of the Mexican [F#m] state
_ Far _
[A] away from [C#m] our _ [F#m] occupied homeland
_ _ We [D] were heroes [E] and victims [F#m] of fate
But from Dublin [D] City _ to San [A] Diego _ _ _
[E] While we witnessed _ freedom [F#m] _ denied
_ So [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] _ Battalion
_ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] side
_ _ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] side
_ From _
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A]
[D] Dublin City _ to [A] San Diego
_ _ While [E] we witnessed freedom [F#m] denied
_ _ So we [D] formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] Battalion
_ _ And [E] we fought on the Mexican [F#m] side
_ _ Yes, we [D] formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] Battalion
_ _ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick [A] _
Battalion
_ _ Yes, [D] we formed the St.
Patrick _
[A] _ Battalion
_ And [E] we fought on [A] the Mexican side _ _ _ _
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