Intro: D5 A5 G5 - D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 If you could fill a veil with shells from Killiney's shore D5 A5 G5 and sweet talk in a tongue that is no more A5 G5 If wishful thought could bridge A5 The Gulf Of Araby G5 D5 A5 G5 Between what is, what is, what is G5 And what can never be D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 If you could hold the frozen flow of New Hope Creek D5 A5 G5 And hide out from the one they said you might meet A5 G5 If you could unlearn all the words A5 G5 That you never wanted heard A5 G5 If you could stall the southern wind A5 That's whistling in your ear G5 D5 A5 G5 You could take what is, what is, what is G5 To what can never be D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 D5 A5 G5 One man of sventy whispers free at last Two neighbors who are proud of their massacres Three tyrants torn away in a winter's month Four prisoners framed by a dirty judge D5 Five burned with tyres A5 Six men still alive G5 And seven more days to shake at the great divide D5 The Gulf A5 The Gulf G5 of Araby D5 The Gulf A5 The Gulf G5 of Araby We would plough and part the earth to bring you home We would harvest every miracle ever known If they laid out all the things That these ten years want to bring We would gladly give them up To bring you back to us O, there is nothing wewould not give To kiss you and believe we can take what is, what is, what is To what can never be One man of seventy whispers not free yet Two neighbors who make up knee-deep in their dead Three tyrants torn away in the summer's heat Four prisoners lost in the fallacy Five, on my life Six, I'm dead inside And seven more days to shake at the great divide The Gulf Of Araby
