Chords with lyrics
No Capo
Verse 1
E minorEm G+G
Oh They say it's no mean city and it's nowhere in between.
D MajorD C majorC
It's divided into 2 where one sides blue and one sides green.
E minorEm G+G
Around the age of eight, oh I was asked to pick a club.
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It was around the time that I had first tasted my own blood.
E minorEm G+G
Broken, bruised and bloody called a fenian and a hun.
D MajorD C majorC
I didn't understand what either meant cause I was only young.
Instumental
E minorEm G+G D MajorD C majorC x2
Verse 2
E minorEm
Catholics and Protestants
G+G
"Royalists" and "Dissidents"
D MajorD C majorC
Since the early 15th century have been at odds to no amends.
E minorEm G+G
Such division spreads like wild fire through the schools and through the schemes.
D MajorD C majorC
Religious hatred dating centuries symbolised by football teams.
Chorus 1
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my bones
And open up my soul
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my eyes
Verse 3
E minorEm G+G
Morons in orange play their flutes, with their red hands raised in the air.
D MajorD C majorC
Singing marching songs about a war in a place they've not been near.
E minorEm G+G
A augmentedA green brigade of cowards, they burn poppies for all to see.
D MajorD C majorC
In a scottish place of sport they scream IRA and fuck the queen.
Chorus 2
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my bones
And open up my soul
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my eyes
Then maybe I can see
D MajorD E minorEm
Why they fight, why they sing
C majorC
Why they spread all of their hate
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my bones
Instumental
E minorEm G+G D MajorD C majorC x2
Verse 4
E minorEm
No amount of media exploitation
G+G
No amount of government legislation
D MajorD
We will never solve this problem
C majorC
Thats spread in the ignorance of youth
Chorus 3
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my bones
And open up my soul
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my eyes
Then maybe I can see
D MajorD E minorEm
Why they fight, why they sing
C majorC
Why they spread all of their hate
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC
Oh won't you let the colours fill my bones
D MajorD E minorEm C majorC