The Galway Races chords by The Dubliners

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
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As I rode down to Galway town to seek for recreation
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On the seventeenth of August me mind being elevated
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There were multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I'm goin' to see the races

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 2:
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There were passengers from Limerick and passengers from Nenagh
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And passengers from Dublin and sportsmen from Tipperary
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There were passengers from Kerry, and all quarters of our nation
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And our member, Peter Brennan, for to join the Galway Blazers

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 3:
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There were multitudes from Aran, and members from New Quay Shore
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Boys from Connemara and the Claire unmarried maidens
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There were people from Cork city who were loyal, true and faithful;
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Who brought home the Fenian prisoners from diverse foreign nations

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 4:
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It's there you'll see confectioners with sugarsticks and dainties
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The lozenges and oranges, the lemonade and raisins!
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The gingerbread and spices to accomodate the ladies
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And a big crubeen for thruppence to be pickin' while you're able

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 4:
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It's there you'll see the gamblers, the thimbles and the garters
      A minorAm          G+G      C majorC
And the spotting Wheel of Fortune with the four and twenty quarters
        A minorAm     G+G          A minorAm      E minorEm
There was others without scruple pelting wattles at poor Maggy
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And her father well-contented and he lookin' at his daughter

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 5:
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It's there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing
      A minorAm          G+G      C majorC
The nimble footed dancers a-tripping over the daisies
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There were others crying cigars and lights and bills for all the races
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With the colors of the jockeys and the prize and horses' ages

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 6:
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It's there you'll see the jockeys and they're mounted out so stately
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The pink, the blue, the orange, and green, the emblem of our nation
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When the bell was rung for starting, all the horses seemed impatient
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I thought they never stood on ground their speed was so amazing

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Verse 7:
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There was half a million people there from all denominations
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew, and Presbyterian
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There was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion
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But "failte" hospitality inducin' fresh acquaintance

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye

Chorus:
       C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
With your whack-fa-la-do-for-the-diddle-ee-idle-eye