Irish Ways chords by Sinéad O'Connor

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Verse 1
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 (E minor)  (C major) Once upon a time there  (E minor) were
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Irish  (C major) ways and Irish  (E minor) laws  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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 (C major) Villages of Irish  (E minor) blood  (B major)  (E minor) 
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 (A minor) Waking  (E minor) to the morning
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 (F major) Waking to  (E minor) the morn (A minor) ing
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 (E minor)  (F major) Then the  (C major) Vikings

Verse 2
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 (E minor) came around
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 (F major) Turned us up and turned us down
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 (E minor) Star (B major)  (B minor) ted  (E minor) building  (C major) boats
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and (E minor) towns  (B minor) 
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 (F major) They tried to change our liv (E minor) ing
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 (B minor) Tried to change  (C major) our liv (F major)  (A minor) ing  (F major) 
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 (C major) Cromwell and his  (A minor) sol diers  (E minor) came

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Verse 3

Started centuries of shame

But they could not make us turn

We're a river flowing

Again, again the soldiers

Verse 4
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 (E minor) came
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 (C major) Burnt our houses, stole our grain  (B minor) 
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 (E minor) Shot the  (F major) farmer (C major) s in their  (E minor) fields  (B major) 
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 (A minor) Working  (E minor) for livings
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Working for a  (A minor) living
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 (C major) 800 years we

Verse 5
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 (A minor) have been  (E minor) down
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The secret  (A minor) of the  (C major) water sound  (B major)  (B minor) 
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 (E minor) Has kept the spirit  (C major) of a man  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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 (C major) Above the  (Edim) pain des (F major) cending  (E minor) 
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 (F major) Above the  (E minor) pain  (B minor)  (A minor) des cending
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 (E minor) 

Verse 6
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Today, the  (C major) struggle  (F major) carries  (E minor) on
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I won (F major) der, "Will  (C major) I live  (B minor) so long  (B major) 
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 (E minor) To see  (F major) the gates  (C major) being opened  (B minor) up   (E minor) 
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To all  (F major) people and their freedom?"  (E minor) 
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 (F major) All people  (E minor) and their freedom  (A minor) 
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 (C major) Once upon a time there was

Verse 7
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 (A minor) Irish  (E minor) ways and  (C major) Irish  (E minor) laws
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Villages  (C major) of Irish  (E minor) blood
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 (A minor) Waking to  (E minor) the morn (E minor) ing
Waking to the morning