• Song:

    The Luck Of The Irish

  • Artist:

    John Lennon

  • Album:

    Unplugged

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The Luck Of The Irish chords
John Lennon  1972  (Sometime In New York City)

G (320003@1)G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)         GIf (320003@1)you had the luck of the Irish
         Bm (x24432@1)      C (x32010@1)           DYou'd (xx0232@1)be sorry and wish you were dead
           G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)         GYou (320003@1)should have the luck of the Irish
          D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)      GAnd (320003@1)you'd wish you was English instead!

C (x32010@1)         GA (320003@1)thousand years of torture and hunger
          Bm (x24432@1)    C (x32010@1)            DDrove (xx0232@1)the people away from their land
  G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1)        GA (320003@1)land full of beauty and wonder
    D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)       G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1)G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1)GWas (320003@1)raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!

C (x32010@1)         GIf (320003@1)you could keep voices like flowers
           C (x32010@1)                   GThere'd (320003@1)be shamrock all over the world
                   C (x32010@1)         GIf (320003@1)you could drink dreams like Irish streams
         C (x32010@1)                        D7 (xx0212@1)        GThen (320003@1)the world would be high as the mountain of morn

C (x32010@1)         GIn (320003@1)the 'Pool they told us the story
        Bm (x24432@1)      C (x32010@1)       DHow (xx0232@1)the English divided the land
       G (320003@1)           C (x32010@1)           GOf (320003@1)the pain, and the death and the glory
        D (xx0232@1)      D7 (xx0212@1)     GAnd (320003@1)the poets of auld Eireland

C (x32010@1)             GIf (320003@1)we could make chains with the morning dew
    C (x32010@1)                        GThe (320003@1)world would be like Galway Bay
      C (x32010@1)                     GLet's (320003@1)walk over rainbows like leprechauns
    C (x32010@1)                    D7 (xx0212@1)    GThe (320003@1)world would be one big Blarney Stone

C (x32010@1)           GWhy (320003@1)the hell are the English there anyway?
        Bm (x24432@1)      C (x32010@1)          DAs (xx0232@1)they kill with God on their side
         G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)         GBlame (320003@1)it all on the kids in the IRA
       D (xx0232@1)        D7 (xx0212@1)     G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1) GAs (320003@1)the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!

If you had the luck of the Irish
         Bm (x24432@1)      C (x32010@1)           DYou'd (xx0232@1)be sorry and wish you were dead
           G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)         GYou (320003@1)should have the luck of the Irish
          D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)      GAnd (320003@1)you'd wish you was English instead!
          D (xx0232@1)          D7 (xx0212@1)      GYes (320003@1)you'd wish you was English instead!

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