Six Boys In Blue chords by John Williamson

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Verse 1
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 (D major)  (C major)  (A major)  (D major)  (C major)  (D major)  (C major) Big  (D major) Roy Donahue
Big
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 (G major) Who were you folks, who  (D major) were you kin?
Big Roy Donahue
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Where  (E major) were you going,
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where have you been?  (A major) 
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Before  (G major) you died you forgot  (D major) to tell
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Though  (A major) everybody knew your problem well  (D major) 
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Big Roy Donoghue was an honest man  (G major) 
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There  (A major) was no hard -a -worker in the town  (D major) 
But when he'd bust his paycheck at the bar
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 (G major) It took  (A major) six boys in blue to put him  (D major) down
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Put him  (G major) down, oh,  (D major) put him down, whoa
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Took  (C major) six boys in  (A major) blue to
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put him  (D major) down  (C major)  (D major)  (C major) 
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Big  (D major) Roy Donoghue
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had  (G major) a simple way  (D major) of living
He loved raising chickens
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an (E major) d  you could trust him with your wife  (A major) 
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But the  (G major) devil friend he had in a bottle  (D major) 
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Slowly  (A major) cheated Roy out of his  (D major) life
Oh, the county jail was a
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home away from  (G major) home
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When  (A major) Big Roy had a weekend on the town
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 (D major) He never made a booking,
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just drank  (G major) booze
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And it  (A major) took six boys in blue to put him  (D major) down
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Put him  (G major) down, oh put him  (D major) down, oh
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Took  (C major) six boys in  (A major) blue to put
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him  (D major) down  (C major)  (D major)  (C major) 
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Well,  (D major) day Big Roy died,
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 (G major) it scarcely raided the mansion  (D major) 
Though I guess Matilda Jones,
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the barmaid (E major) ,
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and the publican knew  (A major) 
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But a  (G major) lonely dog was gettin' no atten (D major) tion
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He  (A major) missed the love of Big Roy Donahue  (D major) 
Oh, it's strange how a man
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can live and  (G major) die
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Without  (A major) any loved ones of his  (D major) own
There were six people
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and a dog at the grave  (G major) 
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And it  (A major) took six boys in blue to put him  (D major) down
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Put him  (G major) down, oh, put him  (D major) down
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Oh, it  (C major) took six boys in  (A major) blue
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to put him  (D major) down  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (C major) Put him  (G major) down, oh,  (D major) put him down, whoa
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Took  (C major) six boys in blue  (A major) to put him down  (G major) 
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