Galway Races chords by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

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Verse 1
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As I rogued out through Galway town
to seek for a creation
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On the 17th of August,
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me mind been elevated
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There was multitudes assembled
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with their tickets at the station
Me eyes began to dazzle
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and they go  ing to see the race
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And when me whack
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followed the dope
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followed the diddly diddly
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There was passengers from Limerick
and more from Tipperary
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The boys from Connemara
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and the Clare unmarried maidens
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And people from Cork City
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who were loyal, true and faithful
They brought home the Fenian prisoners
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from dy  in' in foreign nations
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With me whack -a -doodle -dee -do,
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whack -a -doodle -dee -dee -dee -dee
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It's there you'll see confectioners
with sugar sticks and dainties
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And lozenges and oranges
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and lemonade and raisins
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And gingerbread and spices
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to accommodate the ladies
And a big crew bean for thruppins
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to be pickin' while you're able
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Let me whack all the dope,
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all the diddly -iddly.
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It's there you'll see the pipers
and the fiddlers competing,
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the nimble -footed dancers,
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and they tripping on the daisies,
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and others crying cigars and lights
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and bills for all the races,
with the colors of the jockeys
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and the price and horse's ages.
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Let me whack all the dope,
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all the diddly -iddly.
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It's there you'll see the jockeys,
and they mounted on so stately,
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the blue, the pink,
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The orange and green,
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the emblem of our nation
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When the bell was rung for startin'
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All the horses seemed impatient
I thought they never stood on ground
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Their speed was so amazin'
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Bed me whack, ball me dope,
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ball me diddly -iddle -dee
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And there was half a million people there
Of all denominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant,
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the Jew and Presbyterian
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There was yet no animosity
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No matter what persuasion
But fortune, hospitality,
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in juice and fresh acquaintance
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With me whack, fall the dough,
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fall the diddly -iddle -ay
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With me whack, fall the dough,
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fall the diddly -iddle -ay