Shades of a Blue Orphanage chords by Thin Lizzy

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Verse 1
G 
When we were kids he used to go over the back
Em 
Am 
wall into old Dan's scrapyard
Into the snooker hall where most
Em 
us  kids were barred
Am 
An' into the roxy and the stella
Em 
F 
where film stars starred
That's where me and Hopalong an' Roy
D 
Rogers got drunk and jarred
G 
And we might have been the saviour of the men,
Em 
The captured captain in
the devil's demon den
Am 
And we might have been the magic politician
Em 
in  some kind of tricky position
Am 
Like an old, old,
Em 
old master musician we kept on  wishin'
F 
We was headed for the number one
D 
hit country again

Verse 2
G 
[chorus] And it's
true
Am 
True blue
D 
G 
C 
Irish blue
Am 
And it's true
D 
True blue
G 
Em 
And sometimes it reminds
me of you
C 

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Verse 3
G 
Em 
There's an old photograph of Dan
G 
Em 
G 
that I wish you could- a seen
Am 
Of him and the boys posed,
Em 
standing in St. Stephen's green
Am 
Ya see, they were a part of
Em 
the great freedom dream
F 
But they were caught and detained and
D 
are locked inside the frame
G 
Of the photograph
C 
G 
An' he might have been the clever con,
C 
G 
Em 
the good samaritan, the rassclaut man
Am 
An' he might have been the loaded gun,
Em 
the charlatan of the tap dancin' fan
Am 
But like an old pioneer from out
Em 
F 
er  Afghanistan,
D 
Headed for the number one
hit country again

Verse 4
G 
[Chorus] And it's
true
Am 
True blue
D 
G 
C 
Irish blue
Am 
And it's true
D 
True blue
G 
Em 
And sometimes it reminds
C 
G 
Em 
me of you

Verse 5
G 
Em 
G 
Em 
Old Dan in a raincoat hums the very,
Am 
very, very special notes
G 
Em 
Of a long lost favorite melody
Am 
It reminds him of a love affair when
Em 
he was young and did not care
F 
D 
And how he parted so soft, so sadden
G 
And he might have been the laughing cavaliero,
Em 
the wise old commanchero
Am 
Ow, the desperate desparado, the
Em 
good looking Randolph Valentino,
Am 
The gigolo from glasgow
Em 
But like an old,
old hunter of the female buffalo,
F 
He's headed for the number
D 
one hit country again

Verse 6
G 
[Chorus] And it's
true
Am 
True blue
D 
G 
C 
Irish blue
Am 
And it's true
D 
True blue
G 
Em 
C 
And sometimes it reminds me of you

Verse 7
Am 
D 
And it's true
True blue
G 
Em 
Irish blue
True blue
C 
Irish blue
Am 
And it's true
D 
It's so true
Ummm, it's true
G 
I swear I've said it
Em 
Swear I've said it
C 
I swear I said it
I swear it's true
Am 
And it's true
D 
True blue
G 
Em 
Oh, its irish blue
C 
And it's true...