Key: C major•
Verse 1
Am
G
C
G
C
The policeman walked out
C
Am
When a vision came to him of
F
C
F
Promotion he whispered, I'll try for today
Come tell me your name
C
Am
To the little fat man selling wares
D
G
on the straw
F
C
What's that, my name, sir?
G
C
Moses, right, oh, rely, oh, rely, ay!
Now the trial, it came on,
G
C
and it lasted a week
One judge said it was
Am
D
Ger man, another it was
G
Greek
Prove you're
F
C
Irish, said the po liceman,
F
C
beyond it's a 'nay
And we said, done it,
G
C
Moses, right, oh, rely, ay!
Now the prisoner stepped
G
C
up there as stiff as a crutch
Are you
Irish, or
Dutch?
I'm a
F
C
Jew, sir, I'm a
F
C
Jew, sir, that came over to stay
And me name, it is
G
C
Moses, right -oo -ral, aye -ay
We're two of a kind,
C
Jew
You're a cousin of
Am
G
Briscoe, and I am one, too
F
C
This numbskull has blundered,
F
C
and for it we'll pay
We sure that's right, says
G
C
Moses, right -oo -ral, aye -ay
There's a garbage collector
G
C
who works down our street
F
C
And he moans all the night and
F
C
he groans all the day
Singing
Moses
G
C
Wright, oh, ally, oh, ally, aye
IRA downstairs in the dressing room,
United
Jewish
Appeal.
Now, we've been singing and talking about war and destruction and fighting,
and we decided
But we shouldn't leave
you until we sing an anti -war song.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsAm G C F D
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