Key: B minor
Verse 1
this is a much more serious song now.
It's a song about a First
World War hero,
who was not decorated
for the simple reason,
or for one very good reason,
that his heroism,
and it was real heroism in my opinion,
was displayed in his fight against
the First World War.
His name was John Maclean.
He was a Glasgow schoolteacher.
F
C
Am
Tell me who you're going mad
and who you're going to meet
I'm headed for the station
that's in Buchanan Street
to meet the train
Em
Am
our dear John McLean
Dominey, Dominey
tell me where he's been lad
Why has he been there?
They've had him in the prison
For preaching in the square
At all the hills he saw
Em
Am
He was right side o' the law
Dominey, Dominey
Am
Em
Am
the fightin' Dom iney
Johnny was a teacher
in one of Glasgow's schools
The golden law was silence,
but Johnny broke the rules
young Johnny couldn't wait
Em
Am
to the men at the shipyard gate
Domine, Domine
Am
Em
Am
the fighting Domine
The leaders of the nation
made money hand or fist
Be grinding down the people
with a fiddle and a twist
preacher and a press
G
Am
There was name like John
G
Am
McLean the fightin' Domine
The bosses and the judges
united as one man
For Johnny was a menace
to their 1418 plan
in the fields of armateurs
Em
Am
to smash the profiteers
Am
G
Am
G
There was name like John MacLean
They brought him to the courtroom
in Edinburgh town
But still he didnae cower,
he firmly held his ground
his every word indeed
G
Am
G
There was namely John McLean
Seven months he lingered in prison misery
Till the people rose in fury
in Glasgow and Dundee
were shaken to the core
Em
Am
and Johnny's freedom soared
Dominey, Dominey,
G
Am
G
There was name like John McLean,
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