Belfast Child chords by Simple Minds, Simple Minds
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Intro 1
(D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 1
When (D major) my love said to me
Meet me (G major) down by the gallow (D major) tree
For it?s sad news (G major) I bring (D major)
About this old town (G major) and all
that it?s offering (D major)
Some say troubles (G major) abound (D major)
Some day soon (C major) they're gonna
pull (G major) the old town down (D major)
One day we'll re (G major) turn (D major) here,
When the (C major) Belfast (G major) child sings
again (D major)
(C major) (G major) (D major)
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Verse 2
Brothers sisters where are you now
As I look (C major) for you (G major) right through the crowd (D major)
All my life here (G major) I've spent (D major)
With my faith in God (G major) the church
and the govern (D major) ment
But there's sad (C major) ness (G major) abound (D major)
Some day soon (C major) they're gonna
(G major) pull the old town (D major) down
Verse 3
One day we'll re (G major) turn (D major) here,
When the Bel (A minor) fast (G major) child
sings again (D major) (G major) (D major)
When the Belfast (G major) child sings again
Interlude 1
(D major) (C major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) (G major) (D major) (A minor) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (A minor) (D major)
(G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 4
Some come back (D major) billy,
(G major) won't you come on home (D major)
Come back Mary,
(G major) you've been away so long (D major)
The streets are empty,
and (G major) your mother's gone (D major)
The girls are crying, (G major) it's been oh so (D major) long
And your father's calling,
(G major) come on home (D major)
won't you come on home,
won't you (G major) come on home
Interlude 2
(D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) Come back people,
Verse 5
(D major)
(G major) you've been gone a while (D major)
And the war is raging,
in the (G major) emerald (D major) isle
that's flesh and blood man,
(G major) that's flesh and blood (D major)
All the girls are crying (G major) but all's not lost (D major)
Verse 6
The streets are (D major) empty, the
(G major) streets are cold (D major)
won't you come on home,
won't you (G major) come on home
(D major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 7
(C major) The streets are (G major) empty (D major) (C major) (G major)
Life goes (D major) on
Interlude 3
(D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
One day (D major) we'll return
Verse 8
here
When the Belfast child (G major)
sings again (D major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
When the Belfast child (G major) sings again
(D major) (D major) (G major)
Belfast Child
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