Chords for Cara Dillon - There Were Roses

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My song for you this evening, [E] [B] it's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the [F#] [E] sorrows of [B] our troubled northern land
But lately I've been thinking, [E] and [D#m] it just [B] won't leave my mind
I'll tell [F#] you of two friends one [G#] time, who were both [B] good friends of mine
Now Isaac he was Protestant, [E] [B] and Sean was Catholic born
But it never [F#] made a difference, [E] for [F#] the friendship [B] it was strong
And sometimes in the evening, [E] when [F#] we heard the [B] sound of drums
We said it [F#] won't divide us, [E] we [F#] will always [B] be as one
There [E] were _ [G#m] roses, [E] _ _
[D#m] roses, [E] there were [B] roses
_ And the tears [F#] of a people [E] ran together _
[B] It _ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _
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[B] was on a Sunday morning, [E] when [F#] the awful [B] news came round
_ [F#] Another killing had been [E] done, [F#] just outside [B] Eurie time
We knew that Isaac danced up [C#m] there, we [B] knew he liked the band
But when we [F#] heard that he was [E] dead, we [F#] just could not [B] understand
And fear had filled the countryside, [E] there was [F#] fear in [B] every home
When late at [F#] night a car came, [E] prowling [B] round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed [E] tonight, [F#] to even [B] up the score
Oh Christ, [F#] it's young MacDonald, [E] they have [F#] taken [B] from the door
[E] There were [D#m] roses, _ [E] _ _ [D#m] roses, [E] there were _ [B] roses
_ And the tears of a people [E] ran together
Isaac [B] _ _
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was my friend, he [E] cried, he [F#] begged them [B] with his tears
But centuries [F#] of hatred, [E] half [F#] years I [B] do not hear
An eye for an eye, [E] it was [F#] all that [B] filled their minds
And another [F#] eye for another [E] eye, till [F#] everyone [B] is blind
Now I don't know where the moral is, or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars were [E] fought between [B] good friends
And those who give the orders, are not the ones to die
It's God, it's young [F#] MacDonald, and the likes of [B] you and I
There [E] were _ [G#m] [D#m] roses, [E] _ roses, [D#m]
[E] there were _ [B] roses
And the tears of a people [E] ran together
_ There were _
[B] roses, [E] _ _ [B] roses, _ [E]
[B] roses
_ And the tears of a people [E] ran together
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