***Mother Mo Chro? by Shane MacGowan
as performed by Shane MacGowan and the Popes
on the album "The Crock of Gold"

Song is in key of A.
Use a capo on 2nd fret and play open chord shapes G, C, D and Em.

GC GD GEm CD
GEm CD GC DG

       G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)              DIt (xx0232@1)was 1962, I was two years out of school
       G (320003@1)                          C (x32010@1)            DWhen (xx0232@1)I got on board a boat that was bound for Liverpool
    G (320003@1)                    C (x32010@1)          DThe (xx0232@1)day we sailed away I remember it so well
       G (320003@1)               Em (022000@1)     D (xx0232@1)            GTook (320003@1)a look at the North Wall and bid a fond farewell

       G (320003@1)                     C (x32010@1)          GIt's (320003@1)a hard thing to leave the land of your childhood
                          Em (022000@1)          CTouched (x32010@1)by the rivers and kissed by the sea
    G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)              C (x32010@1)          GThe (320003@1)places you played with your childhood companions
   C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)       GTo (320003@1)leave dear old Ireland and Mother Mo Chro?

           G (320003@1)                      C (x32010@1)     GThough (320003@1)I'm going far away and I may never return here
                                Em (022000@1)        CThere's (x32010@1)one thing I always will keep within me
G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     C (x32010@1)       GDeep (320003@1)in my heart a furious devotion
    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)       GThe (320003@1)love of old Ireland and Mother Mo Chroi

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G Em C D G C D [drop final measure]

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           G (320003@1)                  C (x32010@1)     GThough (320003@1)I'm going away and I may never return here
                                      Em (022000@1)        CThere (x32010@1)is always one thing that I will keep within me
G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     C (x32010@1)     GDeep (320003@1)in my heart a furious devotion
    C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)       GThe (320003@1)love of old Ireland and Mother Mo Chroi

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       G (320003@1)                           C (x32010@1)         GOn (320003@1)the top of the Pentonville Road I saw the sun setting
                                   Em (022000@1)         CThe (x32010@1)town laid out before me looked beautiful to me
G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)          C (x32010@1)               GAway (320003@1)from all the sighing, the suffering and the dying
  C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)           GI (320003@1)dreamed of the future, the young and the free

        G (320003@1)                             C (x32010@1)            GBut (320003@1)the years they go by quickly, now I know I can't remain here
                                        Em (022000@1)       CWhere (x32010@1)each day brings me closer to that final misery
   G (320003@1)                    D (xx0232@1)                    C (x32010@1)                   GMy (320003@1)kids will never scrape shit round here, and I won't die crying in a pint of beer
    C (x32010@1)           G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)       GI'm (320003@1)going back to Ireland and Mother Mo Chro?

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G Em C D G C D [drop final measure]

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