Smoke And Strong Whiskey chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

♫ Verse 1:
 D MajorD              G+G
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
    C majorC           G+G
Whose husbands and fathers alike
       D MajorD           C majorC
Drink black beer in the same public houses
 C majorC      D MajorD        G+G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey


 D MajorD            G+G
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
  C majorC         G+G
Lectures from priests, living in hope
 D MajorD             C majorC
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
 C majorC         D MajorD    G+G
Paid for by their spiritual teachings

  D MajorD           G+G
A augmentedA busy year this, the streets running red
 C majorC         G+G
How many sent to a nuptial bed
     D MajorD          C majorC
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
     C majorC    D MajorD      G+G
And how many wait in for the slaughter


♫ Chorus:
G+G    C majorC    D MajorD
Oh     the holy ground
 C majorC            A minorAm               D MajorD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G+G    C majorC    D MajorD
Oh     the holy ground
  C majorC            A minorAm            D MajorD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be'


♫ Verse 2:
   D MajorD          G+G
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
 C majorC            G+G
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
   D MajorD             C majorC
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
     C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
For the eyes of the world are upon you

D MajorD          G+G
Kellys seventeen and he thinks he's a man
   C majorC              G+G
He's out on the street with a gun in his hand
     D MajorD            C majorC
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
      C majorC   D MajorD      G+G
While the enemy waits with an army


D MajorD         G+G
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
C majorC         G+G
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
     D MajorD             C majorC
Of the green and the red and the orange white and blue
     C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
And the blood and the pain and the hatred


♫ Chorus:
G+G    C majorC     D MajorD
Oh      the holy ground
C majorC             A minorAm               D MajorD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G+G    C majorC     D MajorD
Oh      the holy ground
   C majorC            A minorAm            D MajorD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be


♫ Verse 3:

 D MajorD          G+G
God in his mercy has given us men
  C majorC             G+G
To lead us to peace but they can't put an end
    D MajorD             C majorC
To all those young women who are leaving the land
   C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
Flying frightened over the water

D MajorD             G+G
Father walks home on the colourless night
     C majorC        G+G
And the organisation has blinded his sight
   D MajorD           G+G
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
    C majorC            D MajorD
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary


♫ Chorus:
G+G    C majorC     D MajorD
Oh      the holy ground
C majorC             A minorAm               D MajorD
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
G+G    C majorC     D MajorD
Oh      the holy ground
   C majorC            A minorAm            D MajorD
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be

♫ Outro:
 D MajorD              G+G
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
    C majorC           G+G
Whose husbands and fathers alike
       D MajorD           C majorC
Drink black beer in the same public houses
 C majorC      D MajorD        G+G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey

C majorC      D MajorD        G+G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey