The Broad Black Brimmer chords by The Wolfe Tones

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There's a uniform
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that's hanging in
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What's known as father's room
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A uniform so simple in it's style
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It has no braid of gold or silk
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No hat with feathered plume
Yet me mother has pre
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served it all the while
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One day she made me try it on
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A wish of mine for years
"Just in memory of your father dear"
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She said and when I put
the Sam Browne on
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She was smiling through her tears
As she placed the broad black
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Brimmer on me head

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Verse 2
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It's just a broad black brimmer
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With it's ribbons frayed and torn
By the careless whisk of
Many's a mountain breeze
An old trench coat that's
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All battle-stained and and worn
And breeches almost
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threadbare at the knees
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A Sam Browne belt with the
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Buckle big and strong
And a holster that's been
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Empty many's a day
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But when men claim Ireland's freedom
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The one should choose to lead them
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Will wear the broad black
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brimmer of the IRA

Verse 3
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It was the uniform being worn
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By me father long ago
When he reached me mother's
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Homestead on the run
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It was the uniform me father wore
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In that little church below
When oul' Father Mac
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He blessed the pair as one
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And after truce and treaty and
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The parting of the ways
He wore it when he marched
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out with the rest
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And when they bore his body
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Down that rugged heather braes
They placed the broad black
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Brimmer on his breast

Verse 4
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It's just a broad black brimmer
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With it's ribbons frayed and torn
By the careless whisk of
Many's a mountain breeze
An old trench coat that's
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All battle-stained and and worn
And breeches almost
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threadbare at the knees
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A Sam Browne belt with the
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Buckle big and strong
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Bm 
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And a
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holster that's been
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Empty many's a day (Not for long)
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But when men claim Ireland's freedom
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The one should choose to lead them
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Will wear the broad black brimmer of the IRA