The Old Man's Song
The Old Man's Song

The Old Man's Song easy guitar chords by Christy Moore

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  • Verse 1
    At 
    the 
    turning 
    of 
    the 
    century 

    was 
    lad of five 

    Me 
    father 
    went 
    to 
    fight 
    the 

    Boers 
    and 
    never 
    came back 
    alive 

    Me 
    mother 
    had 
    to bring 
    us 
    up 

    and no 
    charity 
    she 
    did 
    seek 

    So 
    she 
    rubbed 
    and scrubbed 
    and 
    scraped 

    along 
    on 
    seven 
    and six 
    week 

    At 
    the 
    age 
    of twelve 
    left 
    me school 

    and 
    went 
    to get 
    a job 

    With 
    grown 
    up kids 
    me 
    ma could 

    do 
    with 
    the 
    extra 
    couple 
    of 
    bob 

    knew 
    that longer 
    schooling 
    would 

    have stood 
    me better 
    stead 

    But 
    you 
    can't 
    afford 
    refine
    ment 
    when 

    you're strug
    gling 
    for 
    your bread 

    When 
    the 

    Great 

    War 
    star
    ted, 
    oh, 
    didn't 
    hesitate 

    took 
    the 

    Royal 

    Schilling 
    and 
    went 
    to do 
    me 
    bits 

    We 
    fought 
    in 

    Blood 
    and 

    Sweat 
    and 

    Mud, 
    three 
    years 
    or 
    there
    abouts 

    Till 
    copped 
    some gas 
    in 

    Flanders 
    and 
    was 
    invalided 
    out

    When 
    the war 
    was 
    over, 

    and we'd 
    settled 
    with 
    the 

    Hun

    We 
    went 
    back to 
    our 
    cities, 

    for we 
    taught 
    the fightin' 
    dun

    But 
    we 
    went when 
    the 
    dead, 

    and 
    we 
    soon 
    were out 
    of work 

    For 
    soon 
    we had 
    to fight

    for the 
    right 
    to go 
    to work 

    In 
    twenty 
    -six, 
    the 
    general 
    strike, 

    it 
    found 
    me on 
    the street

    Be 
    then 
    I had 
    a wife 
    and 
    kids, 

    their 
    needs 
    I had 
    to meet 

    But 
    the 
    brave 
    new world 
    was 
    coming, 

    and the 
    brotherhood 
    of 
    man. 

    But 
    when 
    the strike 
    was 
    over, 

    we were 
    back 
    where we 
    began. 

    struggled 
    through 
    the 
    thirties, 

    out of 
    work 
    now and 
    again. 

    saw 
    the black 
    shirts 
    marching, 

    and the 
    things 
    they did 
    in 

    Spain. 

    But they 
    brought 
    me kids 
    of 
    decent, 

    and 
    showed 
    them wrong 
    from 
    right. 

    But 

    Hitler 
    was 
    the 
    lad who 
    came, 

    and 
    showed 
    them how 
    to fight

    My 
    daughter 
    was 
    a land 
    girl, 

    she got 
    married 
    to 
    a yank 

    My 
    son, 

    he got 
    a gun 
    for stoppin' 
    run of 

    Rommel's 
    tank

    He 
    was 
    wounded 
    near 
    the 
    end 

    of the war 
    and 
    convalesced 
    in 

    Rome 

    He 
    mar
    ried 
    nighttime 
    nurse 

    and never 
    bothered 
    to 
    come home 

    My 
    daughter 
    writes 
    me 
    every 
    week, 

    cheerful 
    little 
    note 

    About 
    the 
    colour 
    telly 
    and 
    the 

    other 
    things 
    she's 
    got 

    She's 
    got a 
    son, 
    a likely 
    lad, 

    he's 
    just 
    turned twenty 
    -one 

    But 
    now I 
    hear 
    he's 
    been 

    called 
    up to 
    fight 
    in 

    Vietnam 

    Now 
    we're 
    on the 
    pen
    sion, 

    and it 
    doesn't 
    go 
    too far 

    That 
    much 
    to show 
    for a 
    life 
    that's 

    been like 
    one 
    long 
    bloody 
    war 

    When 
    think 
    of 
    all the 
    wasted 
    lives, 

    it 
    makes 
    me want 
    to cry 

    don't 
    know how 
    we'll change 
    things, 

    but by 

    Christ 
    we'll 
    have 
    to 
    try 

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