Key: A major•
Intro 1
F#m
F#m
E
Bm
F#m
A
E
Bm
A
A
Verse 1
A
F#m
And the torch lights up a famished man
Bm
E
Who fortune could not save
A
F#m
Were your dollars from the white house
E
A
Were they from the five and dime
Verse 2
D
A
And did they still make you cry
Bm
E
Or did your teardrops quickly dry
A
F#m
And I never even got so far
E
A
That they could change my name
Chorus 1
E
Bm
Across the western ocean
F#m
A
To a land of opportunity
E
Bm
That some of them will never see
E
Bm
Across the western ocean
F#m
A
Their bellies full, their spirits free
E
Bm
They'll break the chains of poverty
D
F#m
E
B
And they'll dance
A
A
Verse 3
A
F#m
We stepped hand in hand down Broadway
Bm
E
Like the first man on the moon
A
F#m
And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
E
A
I danced up and down the street
Verse 4
D
A
Giving it our best regards
Bm
E
Dear old times square's favorite bard
A
F#m
When I got back to my empty room
E
A
I suppose I must have cried
Chorus 2
E
Bm
Again across the ocean
F#m
A
Where the hand of opportunity
E
Bm
Draws tickets in a lottery
E
Bm
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
F#m
A
From rooms the daylight never sees
E
Bm
And lights don't glow on Christmas trees
F#m
E
B
And we dance
D
F#m
E
B
Interlude 1
F#m
F#m
A
E
Bm
F#m
F#m
A
E
Bm
F#m
Bm
F#m
D
A
E
A
E
A
Chorus 3
E
Bm
Across the western ocean
F#m
A
Where the hand of opportunity
E
Bm
Draws tickets in a lottery
E
Bm
The land that makes us refugees
F#m
A
From fear of priests with empty plates
E
Bm
From guilt and weeping effigies
F#m
E
B
And we dance
Outro 1
D
F#m
E
B
D
F#m
E
B
[Repeat and fade]
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