Smoke And Strong Whiskey chords by Christy Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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



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

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


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



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


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



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



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


♫ Verse 3:

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

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


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

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

C      D        G
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey