The Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries

The Magdalene Laundries easy guitar chords by Christy Moore

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    • Verse 1
    When 

    Joanie 
    was 
    an 
    unmarried 
    girl, 

    just 
    turned 
    twenty 
    -seven 

    When 
    they 
    sent 
    her 
    to 
    the 
    sisters 
    because 

    of 
    the 
    way 
    men 
    looked 
    at 
    her 

    Branded 
    as 
    a 

    Jezebel, 
    she 
    knew 
    she 
    was 

    not 
    bound 
    for 
    heaven 

    She 
    had 
    been 
    cast 
    in 

    shame 
    into 
    the 

    Magdalene 
    laun
    d 
    'ries 

    Most 
    girls 
    went 
    there 
    pregnant, 

    some 
    by 
    their 
    own 
    fathers 

    Bridget 
    got 
    her 
    belly 
    from 
    the 

    parish 
    priest 

    They're 
    trying 
    to 
    get 

    things 
    as 
    white 
    as 
    snow 

    All 
    of 
    those 
    woe 
    -begotten 
    daughters 

    Into 
    steam
    ing 
    stains 
    of 
    the 

    Magdalen 
    laun
    dries 

    Prostitutes 
    and 
    destitutes 
    an

    d 
    temptresses 
    like 

    Joanie 

    Fallen 
    women 
    sentenced 
    into 

    dreamless 
    drudgery 

    Why 
    do 
    they 
    call 
    this 
    heartless 
    place 

    Our 

    Lady 
    of 

    Charity? 

    These 
    bloodless 
    brides 
    of 

    Jesus, 

    If 
    they 
    could 
    just 
    once 

    glimpse 
    their 
    groom, 

    They'd 
    drop 
    the 
    stones 
    concealed 

    behind 
    the 
    rosaries. 

    They 
    wilt 
    the 
    grass 
    they 
    walk 
    upon 

    They 
    leach 
    the 
    light 
    out 
    of 
    a 
    room 

    They'd 
    like 
    to 
    wash 
    those 
    girls 

    Down 
    the drains 
    at 
    the 

    Magdalen 

    Laun
    dry's 

    Peg 

    O 
    'Connell 
    died 
    today 

    She 
    was 
    a 
    cheeky 
    girl 

    They 
    stuffed 
    her 
    in 
    a hole 

    Surely 
    to 

    God 
    you'd 
    think 
    at 
    least 

    Some 
    bells 
    should 
    ring 

    An
    d 

    Joanie 
    thinks 
    she'll 
    die 
    there 
    too 

    And 
    that 
    they'll 
    tramp 
    her 
    in 
    the 
    dirt 

    Like 
    some 
    lame 
    bulb 
    that 

    never 
    will 
    bloom 

    When 
    the 
    springtime 
    comes 

    When 
    the 
    springtime 
    comes 

    When 
    the springtime 
    comes 

    When 
    the 
    springtime 
    comes 



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