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The Connemara Fox chords by The Waterboys

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
Chord diagramE MajorE Chord diagramE7E7 Chord diagramE6E6 x4

Verse 1:
Chord diagramE MajorE                      Chord diagramE7E7 Chord diagramE6E6
There's a man on the run

And he's never been caught
Chord diagramE MajorE                      Chord diagramE7E7 Chord diagramE6E6
He moves at the speed

Of the power of thought
                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
And he carries the news

In a gleam of his eye
                      Chord diagramE MajorE
That what you've been told

Is a kind of a lie

Chorus:
     Chord diagramC majorC
His enemies number fallen priests
 Chord diagramA augmentedA
Men of power and the crooked police
Chord diagramG+G
Cynics from the skool of hard knocks
      Chord diagramA augmentedA
And a motley crowd of mis-matched other old crocks
                        Chord diagramE7E7
Who're never ever gonna catch

The Connemara Fox

Verse 2:
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
They chased him in Cong
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
They missed him in Maam
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
He was already gone
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Never giving a damn
                Chord diagramA augmentedA
Wanted dead or alive
                        Chord diagramA augmentedA
Up the back of of Dog's Bay
                       Chord diagramE MajorE
But by the time they arrived
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
He was leagues away

Chorus:
       Chord diagramC majorC
In an oyster bar playing dominoes
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
And the only clues he left his foes
       Chord diagramG+G
Were a fistful of dust, a change of the locks
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
The words of a Kris Kristoffersen song, a pair of old socks
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
And graffiti saying so long, suckers
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Love, the Connemara Fox

Verse 3:
                Chord diagramE MajorE
He was in Bunnahown
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
On the day of the fair
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
When ship-like clouds
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Sailed the summer air
                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
And a bodhran thumped
                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
And a saxophone played
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
As the people jumped
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
And danced at the side of the bay

Chorus:
       Chord diagramC majorC
They say he had long elegant fingers
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
And when he was gone magic lingered
       Chord diagramG+G
Chord diagramA augmentedA bolt of love that stopped the clocks
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
From the village lane where the washing hung to the city blocks
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
The name on every tongue
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Was the Connemara Fox

Verse 4:
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
He left a diktat
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
On the priest's window sill
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
It said "Crough Paaaatrick, Sonny
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Is the paganest hill
                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
In the whole lump of Ireland
                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
It shone with green light
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
That's why they buried its power
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Under Christian rites

Chorus:
       Chord diagramC majorC
And that bogus name to which it never belonged
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
That you can't even rhyme in a spell or a song
       Chord diagramG+G
You're trying to put life back into the box"
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
And the priest ran out with a scream in the night in his cap and frocks
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
He never even caught sight
                   Chord diagramE MajorE
Of the Connemara Fox

Verse 5:
                        Chord diagramE MajorE
He'll be where there is music
                        Chord diagramE MajorE
He'll be where there is crack
                     Chord diagramE MajorE
He'll be howling the blues
                Chord diagramE MajorE
In the yard out back
                     Chord diagramA augmentedA
He'll be down in the Claddagh
                  Chord diagramA augmentedA
Playin' pitch and toss
                      Chord diagramE MajorE
He says guilt's an imposter, baby
                 Chord diagramE MajorE
You been double-crossed

Chorus:
       Chord diagramC majorC
And just when you think you've got him pegged
        Chord diagramA augmentedA
All you'll see are the backs of his legs
      Chord diagramG+G
Chord diagramA augmentedA shadow passing way over the rocks
   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Chord diagramA augmentedA wisp of hair, a ghostly snatch of the sound of a box
                    Chord diagramE MajorE
No one's ever gonna catch
               Chord diagramE MajorE
The Connemara Fox

              Chord diagramE MajorE
The Connemara Fox
              Chord diagramE MajorE
The Connemara Fox
              Chord diagramE MajorE
The Connemara Fox
              Chord diagramE MajorE
The Connemara Fox

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