Shades of a Blue Orphanage

Shades of a Blue Orphanage easy guitar chords by Thin Lizzy

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Guitar
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E A D G B E

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Fret 2

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  • C

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  • Verse 1
    When 
    we were 
    kids 
    he used 
    to go 
    over 
    the back 

    wall 
    into 
    old Dan's 
    scrapyard 

    Into the snooker 
    hall 
    where most 

    us 
    kids 
    were barred 

    An' 
    into 
    the roxy 
    and the stella 

    where film 
    stars 
    starred 

    That's where 
    me and 
    Hopalong 
    an' Roy 

    Rogers 
    got drunk 
    and jarred 

    And we 
    might 
    have been 
    the saviour 
    of 
    the men, 


    The captured 
    captain 
    in 

    the devil's 
    demon 
    den 

    And we might 
    have 
    been 
    the magic 
    politician 

    in 
    some 
    kind 
    of tricky 
    position 

    Like 
    an old, 
    old, 

    old 
    master 
    musician 
    we kept 
    on 
    wishin' 

    We 
    was 
    headed for 
    the number 
    one 

    hit 
    country 
    again 

    Verse 2
    [chorus] 
    And it's 

    true 

    True 
    blue 

    Irish 
    blue 

    And it's 
    true 

    True 
    blue 

    And 
    sometimes 
    it 
    reminds 

    me of you 

    Verse 3

    There's 
    an old 
    photo
    graph 
    of Dan 

    that I wish 
    you could- 
    seen 

    Of him 
    and the boys 
    posed, 

    standing 
    in St. 
    Stephen's 
    green 

    Ya see, 
    they were a 
    part 
    of 

    the great 
    freedom 
    dream 

    But 
    they were caught 
    and detained 
    and 

    are locked 
    in
    side 
    the frame 

    Of the photograph 

    An' 
    he might 
    have 
    been 
    the clev
    er 
    con, 

    the good 
    samaritan, 
    the 
    rassclaut man 

    An' he might 
    have been 
    the 
    loaded 
    gun, 

    the charlatan 
    of 
    the tap 
    dan
    cin' 
    fan 

    But 
    like an old 
    pioneer 
    from 
    out

    er 
    Afghanistan, 

    Headed 
    for 
    the number 
    one 

    hit country 
    again 

    Verse 4
    [Chorus] 
    And it's 

    true 

    True 
    blue 

    Irish 
    blue 

    And it's 
    true 

    True 
    blue 

    And 
    sometimes 
    it reminds 

    me of 
    you 

    Verse 5
    Old 
    Dan 
    in 
    a raincoat 
    hums 
    the very, 

    very, 
    very 
    special 
    notes 

    Of a long 
    lost 
    favor
    ite 
    melody 

    It reminds 
    him of 
    a love 
    affair 
    when 

    he was 
    young 
    and 
    did not 
    care 

    And 
    how 
    he parted 
    so 
    soft, 
    so 
    sadden 

    And 
    he might 
    have been 
    the laughing 
    cavaliero, 

    the wise 
    old 
    commanchero 

    Ow, the 
    desperate 
    desparado, the 

    good 
    looking 
    Randolph 
    Valentino, 

    The 
    gigolo 
    from 
    glasgow 

    But 
    like 
    an old, 

    old 
    hunter 
    of the 
    female 
    buffalo, 

    He's 
    headed 
    for 
    the number 

    one 
    hit 
    country 
    again 

    Verse 6
    [Chorus] 
    And it's 

    true 

    True 
    blue 

    Irish 
    blue 

    And it's 
    true 

    True blue 

    And 
    sometimes 
    it 
    re
    minds 
    me 
    of you 

    Verse 7
    An
    d it's 
    true 

    True 
    blue 

    Irish 
    blue 

    True 
    blue 

    Irish 
    blue 

    And 
    it's 
    true 

    It's so 
    true 

    Ummm, 
    it's true 

    I swear 
    I've 
    said 
    it 

    Swear 
    I've 
    said 
    it 

    swear 
    I said 
    it 

    I swear 
    it's 
    true 

    And 
    it's true 

    True 
    blue 

    Oh, 
    its 
    irish 
    blue 

    And 
    it's 
    true... 

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