Chords for Andy Irvine - O'Donoghues

_ _ _ [D] It was [F] August _ _ 1962 when I first [Bb] set foot in _ O'Donoghue's
A world of music, friends and [F] booze _ [Bb] opened up [C] before [Fm] me
I never [C] could have [Bb] guessed as I [F] walked through the door
Just what the future had in [Bb] store
A crossroads for my [C] life I [Fm] saw [Em] lying [Bb] there to [Fm] taunt _ [Gm] [Fm] me _ _ _
[Dm] Well, I was an [F] actor, I played straight
I played [Bb] in the gate, he played at the gate
My mother in _ _ 1928 [Fm] had trod [Bb] those boards [G] before me
[F]
I was getting [E] [Bb] tired of the _ [F] company
An actor's life did not suit me
[Bb] I said goodbye, you'll [C] never [F] see me [C] back [Dm] here [F] in Near _ _ East
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] Johnny Moynihan in his fusty coat
[F] Was the [Bb] first to play there in Merrion Row
And he brought the bazooki to Ireland, you [F] know
_ [Bb] _ Waystorm [C] along [Fm] John, Paddy [C] and [Bb] Morty [F] _ O'Donoghue
_ Ciarán, Burt, Luke, Kelly, Ronnie Drew
[Bb] Barney, [Fm] McKenna and [C] me and you
[Fm] In the [C] early [Bb] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [C] 1960s
[Dm] Well, Paddy and [F] Maureen, very, very sound
Though she liked to camp on the Marl [Bb] High Ground
You had long hair, you were outward [F] bound
Go down, [Bb] you blood-red [C] roses
[F] _
Ronnie [C] Drew [Gm] in his [F] fine suit of blue
And a voice like gravel would cut you in [Bb] two
We thought he was Dublin [C] through and through
[F] But he [C] blew in [Bb] [F] from Dun Laoghaire
_ _ _ _ [Bb] Joe _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Ryan and John Kelly in the front [F] bar
Their fiddles are from the [Bb] County Clare
_ [F] Johannes sings in [Bb] the cold night air
[F] In the [Bb] laneway after [Gm] closing
[Fm] Our sea [Em] _ [Bb] shanties in [F] perfect tune
And Seamus Ennis [Gm] in the [C] afternoon
[Bb] It was all over [C] much too soon
[F] _ [C] Days [Bb] of wine [F] and _ [Gm] roses
_ [Fm] _ _ _
[Dm] Well, Banjo [G] Barney calling the [F] tune
_ [Bb] Mary Jordan's a whiz on the spoons
Up the Swanee and down the Broom
[Fm] _ [Bb] Barney's rising [C] to it
[F]
They carry [C] him [Bb] bodily [F] out to the jacks
He empties his bladder and they carry him back
[Bb] He swallows his pint and he's [C] right back [F] on track
[Em] [Gm] How the [F] heart does he do _ _ _ it _ _ _
_ [Bb] Any _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ afternoon [F] you might find there
Luke Kelly in his banjo and his [Bb] red hair
Oh, what times, what an atmosphere
[F] What [Bb] more could a young [C] man wish [Fm] for
How I'd spend [C] my [Bb] time was never in doubt
This [Dm] is what life was [C] all about
[Bb]
A bowl of soup and a pint [C] of [F] stout
A _ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F] desfogamitude, [Gm] marra [F]-pache
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] Dave Smith [F] never short of a witty phrase
Sonny Brogan [Bb] [Fm] loved the [Bb] way he plays
Ted McKenna, God bless the [F] days
Of [Bb] Italian _ _ [C] mandolinos
[F] At closing [C] _ [Gm] time we [F] didn't go far
Just down the [Dm] road to the [C] Pike Coffee [Bb] Bar
The usual [F] suspect, there you are
Have you's no _ homes to go to
_ _ [Bb] Putting _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ up a note on the message board
_ Sweeney's men have a gig, oh [Bb] Lord
We have to meet at twelve o'clock
[Fm] For the [Bb] journey down [C] to Galway
[F] But the [C] Sweeney [Gm] van broke [F] down at the door
And we didn't get [Gm] started till a quarter [C] past four
[Bb] To the merry tune of the [C] _ [F] Dolan's Snore
_ [C] _ [Dm]
Holloway, [F] me _ [Bb] wrong'sy
[Fm] _ _ _
[Dm] It all came to [F] an end in sixty-eight
The rest of the world was lying [Bb] in wait
And I started out for a new landscape
[F] Set sail for [Bb] the Peering [C] Mountains
[Fm] From the [C] old North [Bb] Wall, sailed away
[Dm] And all me friends were [C] there on the [Bb] quay
Won't be back for [C] many's a [F] day
But it was [Bb] bloody great [F] while it lasted
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] _
It _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
was August _ _ 1962
When I first [Bb] set foot an out on a who's
A world of music, friends [F] and boo's
[Bb] Hastening _ [C] towards [F] me
I never [Ab] could have [Gm] guessed as [F] I walked through the door
Just what the future had [C] in store
[Bb]
A blueprint [F] for my life I saw _
[Gm] Lying there [F] before [C] me _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
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