Galway Races chords by Cu Chulainn
Verse 1
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As I went
down to Galway Town
To seek for recreation
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On the seventeenth of August
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Me mind being elevated
Verse 2
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There were passengers assembled
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With their tickets at the station
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And me eyes began to dazzle
Em
And they off to see the races
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With me wack fol the
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Verse 3
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do fol
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The diddle idle day
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There were passengers from Limerick
And passengers from Nenagh
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The boys of Connemara
Verse 4
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And the Clare unmarried
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maiden
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There were people from Cork City
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Who were loyal, true and faithful
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Who brought home the Fenian
Verse 5
prisoners
Em
From dy ing in foreign nations
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And it's there you'll see the pipers
And the fiddlers competing
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And the
Verse 6
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sporting wheel of fortune
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And the four and twenty quarters
And there's others without scruple
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Pelting wattles at poor Maggie
Verse 7
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And her father well contented
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And he gazing at his daughter
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And it's there you'll see the jockeys
And they mounted on so stably
Em
The pink, the blue, the
Verse 8
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orange, and green
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The colors of our nation
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The time it came for starting
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Bm
All the horses seemed impatient
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Their feet they hardly touched
Verse 9
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the ground
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The speed was so amazing!
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There was half a million people there
Of all denominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant,
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the Jew, the Presbyterian
Verse 10
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Yet there was no animosity
Bm
No matter what persuasion
G
But failte hospitality
Em
Inducing fresh acquaintance
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