The Ballad Of Ronnie Drew chords by U2

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA


Verse:
 D MajorD             G+G     A augmentedA
Here's to the Ronnie, the voice we adore
   D MajorD            G+G       A augmentedA
Like coals from a coal bucket scraping the floor
 D MajorD            G+G     A augmentedA
Sing out his praises in music and malt
  D MajorD             G+G      D MajorD
And if you're not Irish, that isn't your fault

D MajorD G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD G+G A augmentedA

Verse:
 D MajorD            G+G     A augmentedA
Raise up our voices like dogs in a pack
 D MajorD           G+G     A augmentedA
Grateful for honest men we never lack
  D MajorD            G+G     A augmentedA
We got 'em by twenties, we got 'em by ones
 D MajorD              G+G       D MajorD
Them and their daughters and all of their sons


D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA

Chorus:
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
     G+G    F# minorF#m       G+G
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
      D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you


Verse:
   D MajorD          G+G     A augmentedA
And what's it to any man whether or no'
 D MajorD          G+G      A augmentedA
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true
   D MajorD          G+G     A augmentedA
As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow
    D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD
And I tied up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe

D MajorD G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD G+G A augmentedA

Verse:
 D MajorD          G+G     A augmentedA
Get up and go at it, five until five
      D MajorD           G+G      A augmentedA
When the whistle says budge it we come back alive
    D MajorD             G+G    A augmentedA
He'll sing to the heavens, he's stormy as hell
    D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD
And wherever he goes, we'll be wishing him well


D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA

Chorus:
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
     G+G    F# minorF#m       G+G
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
      D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you


   A augmentedA
The dawn and the dust, the wise, the unjust
     E minorEm
Kids in gambling games
   A augmentedA
The unheard, the unseen, the unwashed and unclean
       E minorEm
Where the streets all have names
 A augmentedA
Baggot Street, Leeson Street, right on to Stephen's Green
   E minorEm
With lovers and loners who can hear all intoners
   A augmentedA
The goths and the ravers, immigrants and traders
 E minorEm
Sing out Ronnie Drew


Verse:
  D MajorD          G+G     A augmentedA
A majorA eye for a eye or a hand for a hand
 D MajorD            G+G      A augmentedA
Trust in the music and strike up the band
   D MajorD           G+G      A augmentedA
The more that we sing the less that we fight
 D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA
Time and again this is proved to be right

D MajorD G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD G+G A augmentedA

Verse:
 D MajorD             G+G     A augmentedA
Build you a statue on St. Stephen's Green
  D MajorD       G+G     A augmentedA
No fairer monument ere to be seen
   D MajorD          G+G      A augmentedA
The statue of Ronnie Drew holding the hand
   D MajorD            G+G      D MajorD
Of a girl with her hair in a black velvet band

D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA  D MajorD D G+G A augmentedA

Chorus:
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
      G+G      D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew
     G+G    F# minorF#m       G+G
Ronnie Drew, we love you, yes we do
      D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you

Outro:
      D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you,
      D MajorD      A augmentedA       D MajorD
Here's to you, Ronnie Drew, here's to you


N.C.
And what's it to any man whether or no'
N.C.
Whether I'm easy or whether I'm true
N.C.
As I lifted her petticoat easy and slow
N.C.
And I rolled up me sleeve for to buckle her shoe