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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
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...
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