The Patriot Game chords by Dominic Behan

Chords with lyrics

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   G+G
Come all ye young rebels, and list while I sing,
     G+G
For the love of one's country is a terrible thing.
  E minorEm
It banishes fear with the speed of a flame
    G+G
And it makes us all part of the patriot game.


  G+G
My name is O'Hanlon, and I've just turned sixteen.
  G+G
My home is in Monaghan, where I was weaned.
  E minorEm
I learned all my life cruel England to blame,
  G+G
So now I am part of the patriot game.

    G+G
This Ireland of ours has too long been half free;
   G+G
Six counties lie under John Bull's tyranny.
   E minorEm
But still De Valera is greatly to blame
  G+G
For shirking his part in the patriot game.


   G+G
They told me how Connolly was shot in his chair,
   G+G
His wounds from the fighting all bloody and bare.
   E minorEm
His fine body twisted, all battered and lame;
   G+G
They soon made me part of the patriot game.


  G+G
I don't mind a bit if I shoot down police
     G+G
They are lackeys for war, never guardians of peace
  E minorEm
And yet at deserters I'm never let aim
   G+G
The rebels who sold out the patriot game.

   G+G
It's nearly two years since I wandered away
     G+G
With the local battalion of the bold IRA,
   E minorEm
I've read of our heroes, and I wanted the same,
  G+G
To play out my part in the patriot game.


   G+G
And now as I lie here, my body all holes,
  G+G
I think of those traitors who bargained in souls
   E minorEm
And I wish that my rifle had given the same
     G+G
To those quislings who sold out the patriot game.

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