History of football chords by
Hamish Imlach

N/A

Key: F major

Verse 1
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Bm Bm 2
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From Ireland came a band,
a hundred years ago they say,
G G 
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For the birthday feast of
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the Clan MacLeish,
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G G 
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the band was booked to play.
D D 
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They wore green hats, green spots,
green coats, I think,
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D D 
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The thing they weren't a -green on
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was the share and all the
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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drink.
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Colonel Chief MacLeish was
very pleased
as he took to his seat
G G 
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D D 
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For it was said his wife had made
G G 
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a special birthday treat
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He wore blue braid, blue plate,
blue kilt I suppose
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D D 
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The only thing that wasn't blue,
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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he never blew his nose
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D D 
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The guests gasped when at last
the treat was finally brought
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On a wooden plate,
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A A 
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G G 
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a steaming great dumpling piping hot
D D 
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Oh, they grabbed it, stabbed it,
but the dumpling stayed intact
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D D 
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Till a fierce McLeish, no too pleased,
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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gave it a hell of a crack
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D D 
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The whittler stopped the dumpling
with an Irish roar of pain
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He cursed and swore,
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A A 
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G G 
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then once more kicked it back again
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They went up and down the
banquet room,
forty -wide and eighty -lang,
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D D 
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Kicked between MacLeish's men
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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G G 
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D D 
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and the Irish Ceilidh band.
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D D 
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Their anger changed to laughter
when they saw it could be fun,
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D D 
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But their laughter changed to anger
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G G 
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when they thought the Rhymeside won.
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Still they play this game today
Though they've changed
the rules somehow
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We're el even dumplings
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on each side
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D D 
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And they call it football now
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D D 
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G G 
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Bm Bm 2
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D D 
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G G 
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