Dixieland chords by Steve Earle

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I am Kilrain and I'm a fightin' man and I come from County Clare
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And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian so I took me leave of there
        D                                                  G
And I crossed the ocean in the "Arrianne", the vilest tub afloat
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And the captain's brother was a railroad man and he met us at the boat
     A                              G                                   A
So I joined up with the 20th Maine like I said my friend I'm a fighting man
          D         Em            F#m     G
And we're marchin' south in the pouring rain
      A                 D
We're all goin' down to Dixieland

D                                                      G
I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and we fight for Chamberlain
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'Cause he stood right with us when the Johnnies came like a banshee on the wind
        D                                             G
In the smoke smeared hell of Gettysburg many a mother wept
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For many a good boy died there, sure, and the air smelt just like death
   A                                     G                         A
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I marched to hell and back again
    D       Em     F#m    G
For Colonel Joshua Chamberlain -
      A                 G
we're all goin' down to Dixieland


  D                                                     G
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I damn all gentlemen
                                   D                               Bm
Whose only worth is their father's name and the sweat of a workin' man
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Well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands
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And we spilled our blood in the battle's heat Now we're all Americans
   A                                     G                              A
I am the Kilrain of the 20th Maine did I tell you friend I'm a fightin' man
         D      Em        F#m   G
And I'll not be back this way again,
             A                  G
'cause we're all goin' down to Dixieland