Joe Mc Donnell chords by The Wolfe Tones

Chords with lyrics

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Oh me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came,
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That city I will never see again.
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For in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days,
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I love that town in oh so many ways.
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For it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife,
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I then set out to make for her a life.
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But all my young ambitions, met with bitterness and hate,
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I soon found myself inside a prison gate.

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And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,
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When I think of all the deeds that you have done.
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You had plundered many nations divided many lands,
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You had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,
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And you brought this reign of terror, to my land.

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Through those many months internment in the maidstone and the maze,
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I thought about my land throught those days.
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Why my country was divided, why I was now in jail,
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Imprisoned without crime or without trial.
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And though I love my country, I am not a bitter man,
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I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand
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So then one faithful morning I shook bold freedom's hand
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For right or wrong I'd tried to free my land.


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    A minorAm  C majorC    A minorAm       C majorC         G+G
And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,
    A minorAm        C majorC       G+G   D MajorD
When I think of all the deeds that you have done.
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You had plundered many nations divided many lands,
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You had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,
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And you brought this reign of terror, to my land.

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Then one cold October morning, trapped in a lion's den,
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I found myself in prison once again.
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I was committed to the H-Blocks, for 14 years or more,
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And the blanket, and condition, they were poor.
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Then a hunger strike we did commence, for the dignity of man,
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But it seemed to me that no one gave a dam.
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But now I am a saddened man, I watched my comrades die,
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If only people cared or wondered why.

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And you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,
    A minorAm        C majorC       G+G   D MajorD
When I think of all the deeds that you have done.
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You had plundered many nations divided many lands,
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You had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,
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And you brought this reign of terror, to my land.

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May God shine on you Bobby Sands for the courage you have shown,
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May your glory and your fame be widely known.
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And Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh, who died unselfishly,
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And Patsy O?Hara and the next in line is me.
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And those who lie behind me, may your courage be the same,
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And I pray to God my life is not in vain.
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Ah but sad and bitter was the year of 1981,
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For everything I've lost and nothing's won.