No Capo and normal tuning. 

Verse 1
                        Am
Throught the eyes of an innocent child
                   F7M
Can't hide what is burning inside
                  Am
The shame and the guilt of disgrace
                   F7M
 They said she had fallen from grace
                 Dm 
To the arms of a train engineer
                     Am
Who escaped when the verdict was clear
                Em
And saw she was quietly installed
                Am
in the Magdalen Laundry

Chorus
   F7M        C
And oh you can find them there
Dm                      G
Slaving each day in the heat and the steam
  F7M      C
And oh every bloody stain
        Dm          
Will be carefully scrubbed
                          G
'Till it's white and it's clean

Verse 2
                Am
The Sisters got angry today
                  F7M
 They took Bridie Power away
                  Am
They said she had broken the rules
                   F7M
She swore that the priest
 
from the school...
               Dm
If only they'd asked why she cried
                    Am
They said they'd concluded she'd lied
                    Em
 The priest had his own alibi
                Am
In the Magdalen Laundry

Chorus

Bridge
F7M                   C             G
A world set apart by magnolia walls
F7M
And it's hard to believe
          C                  G
That this happened at all
F7M               C                  G 
Pray the meek shall inhert this heart

Verse 3
               Am
The Sisters of Mercy still live
                  F7M
In the convent on top of the hill
                 Am 
The walls of the laundries came down
               F7M
Exposing their sins to the town
                  Dm
The ghosts of the girls who had died
                 Am
The souls of the ones who survived
           Em
Echo their protest inside
             Am
The Magdalen Laundry

Chorus x2