The Magdalene Laundries chords by
The Chieftains
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Key: A major•
Intro 1
A
A

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2

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A
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F#m
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D
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D
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E
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F#m
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A
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F#m
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Verse 1
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F#m
F#m
2

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I was an unmarried girl
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I'd just turned twenty- seven
When they sent me to the sisters
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D
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For the way men looked at me
Branded as a Jezebel
Bm
Bm
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I knew I was not bound for Heaven
D
D

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I'd be cast in shame
E
E

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F#m
F#m
2

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Into the Magdalene laundries
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F#m
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Verse 2
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Most girls come here pregnant
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Some by their own fathers
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2

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Bridget got that belly by
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D

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her parish priest
We're trying to get things white as snow
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All of us woe- begotten- daughters
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In the streaming stains
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E

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F#m
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Of the Magdalene laundries
Verse 3
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F#m
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2

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Prostitutes and destitutes
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D

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And temptresses like me
Fallen women
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D
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Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
F#m
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2

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D
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Oh, charity
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Verse 4
These bloodless brides of Jesus
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If they had just once glimpsed
their groom
Then they'd know,
A
A

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and they'd drop the stones
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D
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Concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
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They leech the light out of a room
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They'd like to drive us down the drain
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F#m
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At the Magdalene laundries
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F#m
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A
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Verse 5
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Peg O'Connell died today
She was a cheeky girl
A flirt
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They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you'd think at least
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D
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some bells should ring!
One day I'm going to die here too
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A
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D
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And they'll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
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That never blooms, come any spring
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Not any spring
Interlude 1
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F#m
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F#m
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A
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F#m
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D
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D
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Verse 6
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No, not any spring
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Not any spring
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