#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------# The Luck Of The Irish chords John Lennon 1972 (Sometime In New York City) G G C G If you had the luck of the Irish Bm C D You'd be sorry and wish you were dead G C G You should have the luck of the Irish D D7 G And you'd wish you was English instead! C G A thousand years of torture and hunger Bm C D Drove the people away from their land G C G A land full of beauty and wonder D D7 G D G D G Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn! C G If you could keep voices like flowers C G There'd be shamrock all over the world C G If you could drink dreams like Irish streams C D7 G Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn C G In the 'Pool they told us the story Bm C D How the English divided the land G C G Of the pain, and the death and the glory D D7 G And the poets of auld Eireland C G If we could make chains with the morning dew C G The world would be like Galway Bay C G Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns C D7 G The world would be one big Blarney Stone C G Why the hell are the English there anyway? Bm C D As they kill with God on their side G C G Blame it all on the kids in the IRA D D7 G D G D G As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide! If you had the luck of the Irish Bm C D You'd be sorry and wish you were dead G C G You should have the luck of the Irish D D7 G And you'd wish you was English instead! D D7 G Yes you'd wish you was English instead! Set8 http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/
