Shades of a Blue Orphanage chords by
Thin Lizzy

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

Verse 2
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[chorus] And it's
true
Am Am 
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True blue
D D 
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G G 
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C C 
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Irish blue
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And it's true
D D 
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True blue
G G 
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Em Em 
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And sometimes it  reminds
me of you
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Verse 3
G G 
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Em Em 
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There's an old photograph of Dan
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G G 
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that I wish you could- a seen
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Of him and the boys posed,
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standing in St. Stephen's green
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Ya see, they were a part of
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the great freedom dream
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But they were caught and detained and
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are locked inside the frame
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Of the photograph
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G G 
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An' he might have been the clever con,
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G G 
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Em Em 
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the good samaritan, the rassclaut man
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An' he might have been the loaded gun,
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the charlatan of the tap dancin' fan
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But like an old pioneer from out
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F F 
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er  Afghanistan,
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Headed for the number one
hit country again

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

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

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

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

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