The Old Man's Song chords by
Christy Moore
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Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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At the turning of the century
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I was a lad of five
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Me father went to fight the
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Boers and never came back alive
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Eb
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Me mother had to bring us up
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Ab
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and no charity she did seek
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So she rubbed and scrubbed and scraped
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Eb
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along on seven and six a week
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At the age of twelve I left me school
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Eb
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and went to get a job
With grown up kids me ma could
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Bb
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do with the extra couple of bob
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I knew that longer schooling would
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have stood me better stead
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Eb
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Db
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But you can't afford refinement when
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you're struggling for your bread
When the
Great
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War started, oh, I didn't hesitate
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I took the
Royal
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Bb
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Schilling and I went to do me bits
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We fought in
Blood and
Sweat and
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Mud, three years or thereabouts
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Till I copped some gas in
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Eb
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Flanders and was invalided out
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When the war was over,
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and we'd settled with the
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Hun
We went back to our cities,
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for we taught the fightin' dun
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But we went when the dead,
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and we soon were out of work
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For soon we had to fight,
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for the right to go to work
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In twenty -six, the general strike,
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it found me on the streets
Be then I had a wife and kids,
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their needs I had to meet
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But the brave new world was coming,
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Ab
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and the brotherhood of man.
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But when the strike was over,
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Eb
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we were back where we began.
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I struggled through the thirties,
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out of work now and again.
I saw the black shirts marching,
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and the things they did in
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Spain.
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But they brought me kids of decent,
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and showed them wrong from right.
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But
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Hitler was the lad who came,
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and showed them how to fight.
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My daughter was a land girl,
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she got married to a yank
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My son,
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he got a gun for stoppin' run of
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Rommel's tanks
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He was wounded near the end
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of the war and convalesced in
Rome
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He mar ried a nighttime nurse
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and never bothered to come home
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My daughter writes me every week,
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a cheerful little note
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About the colour telly and the
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other things she's got
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She's got a son, a likely lad,
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he's just turned twenty -one
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But now I hear he's been
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called up to fight in
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Vietnam
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Now we're on the pen sion,
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and it doesn't go too far
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That much to show for a life that's
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been like one long bloody war
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When I think of all the wasted lives,
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it makes me want to cry
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Db
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I don't know how we'll change things,
but by
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Christ we'll have to try

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