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Verse 1:


Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G
He was Lawless by name, Lawless by nature

Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramD MajorD              Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramG+G
He was trouble right from the start

Chord diagramA minorAm                     Chord diagramD MajorD
Hard as nails, runnin' wild through the streets

Chord diagramG+G                                 Chord diagramD MajorD
He was breakin' his poor mother's heart

Chord diagramA minorAm              Chord diagramD MajorD
Nature played a trick on Lawless

Chord diagramG+G                           Chord diagramD MajorD
And the humour of nature is cruel

Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramC majorC       Chord diagramG+G
And he grew up as we all had expected him

Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G
Into a dangerous fool

Verse 2:
Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
He was a hard man, a man for all seasons

Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramG+G
He was always out for a fight

Chord diagramA minorAm                         Chord diagramD MajorD
He couldn't hold drink but still he'd get plastered

Chord diagramG+G                         Chord diagramD MajorD
In Clark's every Saturday night

Chord diagramA minorAm                    Chord diagramD MajorD
Strip to the vest and challenge the best

Chord diagramG+G                                         Chord diagramD MajorD
Until the guards they were called to come fast

Chord diagramG+G                                Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
And they'd lock him away for the rest of the day

Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramG+G
And let him out on the Sunday for mass

Verse 3:
Chord diagramG+G                               Chord diagramC majorC         Chord diagramG+G
Oh one night he went down to the Ringsend Regatta

Chord diagramG+G                        Chord diagramD MajorD           Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramG+G
Where he met up with the bould Dolly Platts

Chord diagramA minorAm                 Chord diagramD MajorD
She wasn't exactly what you'd call beauty

Chord diagramG+G                            Chord diagramD MajorD
But she was the belle of her flats

Chord diagramA minorAm                      Chord diagramD MajorD
Chord diagramA augmentedA whirlwind romance and Dolly took a flier

Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramD MajorD
With Lawless she would settle down

Chord diagramG+G                           Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
And It was pure coincidence three months before

Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramD MajorD            Chord diagramG+G
There was a yankee destroyer in town

Verse 4:


Chord diagramG+G                                Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
And the couple were blessed with one of god's miracles

Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramG+G       Chord diagramG+G
Before six months had elapsed

Chord diagramA minorAm                    Chord diagramD MajorD
Dolly gave birth to a nine-pound black baby

Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramD MajorD
And Lawless was fit to collapse

Chord diagramA minorAm                         Chord diagramD MajorD
She swore she'd never been touched by another

Chord diagramG+G                          Chord diagramD MajorD
And Lawless took her at her word

Chord diagramG+G                                     Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
And the neighbours all say, she's the spit of her father

Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramD MajorD         Chord diagramG+G
and the cuckoo is a wonderful bird.'

Verse 5:


Chord diagramG+G                            Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Oh now Lawless stays in and looks after the family

Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramG+G      Chord diagramG+G
While Dolly goes out for the night

Chord diagramA minorAm                              Chord diagramD MajorD
The old gossips all say she's free in her ways

Chord diagramG+G                             Chord diagramD MajorD
And its there evil rumours run rife

Chord diagramA minorAm                         Chord diagramD MajorD
When Lawless heard this he waited for Dolly

Chord diagramG+G                                  Chord diagramD MajorD
In the bridge where the river runs low

Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G
Noone will ever know what happened next

Chord diagramG+G                        Chord diagramD MajorD      Chord diagramG+G
But Dolly drowned in the Dodder below

Verse 6:


Chord diagramG+G                       Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
Some say he's crazy and more say he's evil

Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramD MajorD             Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramG+G
Everyone says that he's mad

Chord diagramA minorAm                     Chord diagramD MajorD
Noone will defend him, he was no angel

Chord diagramG+G                               Chord diagramD MajorD
But I'll tell you he wasn't all bad

Chord diagramA minorAm                              Chord diagramD MajorD
They've locked him away for the rest of his natural

Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramD MajorD
Never again will he see

Chord diagramG+G
Down the back of Ring's End

          Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
There's a lonely child playing

Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramG+G
Where the Liffey flows into the sea

{Outro}


Chord diagramG+G
Down the back of Ring's End

          Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
There's a lonely child playing

Chord diagramG+G                      Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramC majorC   Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramC majorC Chord diagramG+G
Where the Liffey flows into the sea

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