Shades of a Blue Orphanage chords by 
Thin Lizzy 
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Key: A major•
Verse 1
A
When we were kids he used to go over the back
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Bm
wall into old Dan's scrapyard
Into the snooker hall where most
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us kids were barred
Bm
An' into the roxy and the stella
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G
where film stars starred
That's where me and Hopalong an' Roy
E
Rogers got drunk and jarred
A
And we might have been the saviour of the men,
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The captured captain in
the devil's demon den
Bm
And we might have been the magic politician
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in some kind of tricky position
Bm
Like an old, old,
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old master musician we kept on wishin'
G
We was headed for the number one
E
hit country again
Verse 2
A
[chorus] And it's
true
Bm
True blue
E
A
D
Irish blue
Bm
And it's true
E
True blue
A
F#m
And sometimes it reminds
me of you
D
Verse 3
A
F#m
There's an old photo graph of Dan
A
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A
that I wish you could- a seen
Bm
Of him and the boys posed,
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standing in St. Stephen's green
Bm
Ya see, they were a part of
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the great freedom dream
G
But they were caught and detained and
E
are locked in side the frame
A
Of the photograph
D
A
An' he might have been the clev er con,
D
A
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the good samaritan, the rassclaut man
Bm
An' he might have been the loaded gun,
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the charlatan of the tap dan cin' fan
Bm
But like an old pioneer from out
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G
er Afghanistan,
E
Headed for the number one
hit country again
Verse 4
A
[Chorus] And it's
true
Bm
True blue
E
A
D
Irish blue
Bm
And it's true
E
True blue
A
F#m
And sometimes it reminds
D
A
F#m
me of you
Verse 5
A
F#m
A
F#m
Old Dan in a raincoat hums the very,
Bm
very, very special notes
A
F#m
Of a long lost favor ite melody
Bm
It reminds him of a love affair when
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he was young and did not care
G
E
And how he parted so soft, so sadden
A
And he might have been the laughing cavaliero,
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the wise old commanchero
Bm
Ow, the desperate desparado, the
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good looking Randolph Valentino,
Bm
The gigolo from glasgow
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But like an old,
old hunter of the female buffalo,
G
He's headed for the number
E
one hit country again
Verse 6
A
[Chorus] And it's
true
Bm
True blue
E
A
D
Irish blue
Bm
And it's true
E
True blue
A
F#m
D
And sometimes it re minds me of you
Verse 7
Bm
E
An d it's true
True blue
A
F#m
Irish blue
True blue
D
Irish blue
Bm
And it's true
E
It's so true
Ummm, it's true
A
I swear I've said it
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Swear I've said it
D
I swear I said it
I swear it's true
Bm
And it's true
E
True blue
A
F#m
Oh, its irish blue
D
And it's true...
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