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The Old Man's Song chords by 
Paddy Reilly 
N/A•
Key: Eb major•BPM: 91
Verse 1
G
D
A
G
At the turning of the century,
A
I was a lad of five.
My father went off to fight the Boers
G
D
A
and he never came back alive.
My mother, she had to bring us up,
G
D
A
no charity she'd seek.
She rubbed and scrubbed
G
and scraped along
D
A
on seven and six a week
G
At the early age of thirteen years
A
D
I left school and took a job
A
I knew my mother could deal
G
D
with the extra couple above
A
I know that longer schooling
G
D
would have stood me better stead
A
G
But you can't afford refinements
A
while you're struggling for your bread
And when the Great War started,
G
A
well, I didn't hesitate
I took the royal shilling
G
D
A
and went off to do my bit
We fought in blood and sweat and mud
G
D
A
for three years or thereabouts
G
Then I caught some gas in Flanders
A
and got in the lead of doubt
G
And when the war was over,
A
D
A
and we'd settled with the hum,
We went back to our civvies,
G
D
for we'd thought the fighting
A
done.
We thought we'd won the
right for peace,
G
D
A
but there was no such luck,
G
For soon we found we had to fight
A
for the right to go to work
Em
In twenty -six the general strike
A
saw me out on the street
I had a wife and kids by then
Em
A
and their needs were hard to meet
But the brave new world was coming
Em
A
D
A
with the brotherhood of man
And when the strike was over,
Em
A
we were back where we began
G
We struggled through the thirties,
A
out of work now and again
I saw the blue shirts marching
G
D
and the things they did in Spain
A
They brought me kids up decent
G
D
A
and they taught them wrong from right
G
Hitler was the lad who came
A
and showed them how to fight
G
My daughter, she's a land girl
A
She got married to a Yank
My son, he got a medal
G
D
A
First up in one of Rommel's tanks
He was wounded near the end of the war
G
D
A
And he come blessed in Rome
G
And he married a night -time nurse
D
A
and never bothered to come home
G
My daughter writes me once a week
A
a cheerful little note
About her colour telly
G
D
A
and the other thing she's got
She has a son, a likely lad,
G
D
he's just turned twenty -one
A
A
But now she tells me he's
G
A
been called up at NAMM
A
G
We're living on the pension now
A
and it doesn't go too far
Not much to show for a life
G
D
that seems like one long bloody war
A
When I think of all the wasted lives,
G
D
A
it makes me want to cry
G
I'm not sure how we'll change things,
D
A
but by Christ we'll have to try
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