if i was a painter chords by Lisa O'Neill (Ireland)

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Verse 1
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If I was a painter
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Em 
with colours no end
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Am 
C 
Em 
I'd paint the whole thing simply again
C 
G 
Where everything runs
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G 
into everything
Em 
Where every colour is born without sin

Verse 2
Em 
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Em 
Red be a roarin' river in my  veins
C 
Green be the beat of
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the heart in the trees
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G 
C 
Blue be the pull of the moon
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on the tides
Em 
Let brown be the base of

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Verse 3

some true loves eyes

Give us a chance at an ear- ly life

then pull it from under us when we arrive

Sending us orderly.

What choice had I?

Born under the only sky

Verse 4

Vast, vast, vast

Silver, gold and brass

The moon's milk, the sun's silk

All live among the stars

Verse 5
C 
G 
I found out when I listened
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G 
Em 
G 
Am 
Em 
Love is received from love
C 
G 
Up- in the steely night
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Stars span the Galway Shawl
C 
I was scared

Verse 6

of the Underground in London

at the speed of my generation

at the old people getting forgotten

in this fuss of a world we spi- n

Verse 7
Em 
G 
If I   was a painter
D 
Em 
with colours no en  d
C 
I'd paint the whole thing simply again
G 
Em 
Where everything runs into everything
C 
Where every colour is born without sin