Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Intro:
E MajorE E7E7 E6E6 x4
Verse 1:
E MajorE E7E7 E6E6
There's a man on the run
And he's never been caught
E MajorE E7E7 E6E6
He moves at the speed
Of the power of thought
A augmentedA
And he carries the news
In a gleam of his eye
E MajorE
That what you've been told
Is a kind of a lie
Chorus:
C majorC
His enemies number fallen priests
A augmentedA
Men of power and the crooked police
G+G
Cynics from the skool of hard knocks
A augmentedA
And a motley crowd of mis-matched other old crocks
E7E7
Who're never ever gonna catch
The Connemara Fox
Verse 2:
E MajorE
They chased him in Cong
E MajorE
They missed him in Maam
E MajorE
He was already gone
E MajorE
Never giving a damn
A augmentedA
Wanted dead or alive
A augmentedA
Up the back of of Dog's Bay
E MajorE
But by the time they arrived
E MajorE
He was leagues away
Chorus:
C majorC
In an oyster bar playing dominoes
A augmentedA
And the only clues he left his foes
G+G
Were a fistful of dust, a change of the locks
A augmentedA
The words of a Kris Kristoffersen song, a pair of old socks
E MajorE
And graffiti saying so long, suckers
E MajorE
Love, the Connemara Fox
Verse 3:
E MajorE
He was in Bunnahown
E MajorE
On the day of the fair
E MajorE
When ship-like clouds
E MajorE
Sailed the summer air
A augmentedA
And a bodhran thumped
A augmentedA
And a saxophone played
E MajorE
As the people jumped
E MajorE
And danced at the side of the bay
Chorus:
C majorC
They say he had long elegant fingers
A augmentedA
And when he was gone magic lingered
G+G
A augmentedA bolt of love that stopped the clocks
A augmentedA
From the village lane where the washing hung to the city blocks
E MajorE
The name on every tongue
E MajorE
Was the Connemara Fox
Verse 4:
E MajorE
He left a diktat
E MajorE
On the priest's window sill
E MajorE
It said "Crough Paaaatrick, Sonny
E MajorE
Is the paganest hill
A augmentedA
In the whole lump of Ireland
A augmentedA
It shone with green light
E MajorE
That's why they buried its power
E MajorE
Under Christian rites
Chorus:
C majorC
And that bogus name to which it never belonged
A augmentedA
That you can't even rhyme in a spell or a song
G+G
You're trying to put life back into the box"
A augmentedA
And the priest ran out with a scream in the night in his cap and frocks
E MajorE
He never even caught sight
E MajorE
Of the Connemara Fox
Verse 5:
E MajorE
He'll be where there is music
E MajorE
He'll be where there is crack
E MajorE
He'll be howling the blues
E MajorE
In the yard out back
A augmentedA
He'll be down in the Claddagh
A augmentedA
Playin' pitch and toss
E MajorE
He says guilt's an imposter, baby
E MajorE
You been double-crossed
Chorus:
C majorC
And just when you think you've got him pegged
A augmentedA
All you'll see are the backs of his legs
G+G
A augmentedA shadow passing way over the rocks
A augmentedA
A augmentedA wisp of hair, a ghostly snatch of the sound of a box
E MajorE
No one's ever gonna catch
E MajorE
The Connemara Fox
E MajorE
The Connemara Fox
E MajorE
The Connemara Fox
E MajorE
The Connemara Fox
E MajorE
The Connemara Fox