Chords for Christy Moore - Smoke & Strong Whiskey (Official Live Video)

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_ _ _ [A] Kids wear white garters [G] and smell like their mothers, [C] whose husbands and [G] fathers alike
_ drink [D] black beer in the same [C] public houses, _ _ smelling [A] of smoke and [G] strong whiskey. _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ Mammies and [G] daddies and skipping ropes, [C] _ lectures from holy [G] men living in hope,
[D] that they've not mistaken [C] the brand of their coats, paid for [D] by their [G] spiritual teaching. _
_ _ _ _ [D] A busy year, this [G] street's running red.
[C] How many sent [G] to the nuptial bedding?
[D] How many sent home [C] to a winter of graves?
How many [D] waiting for [G] the slaughter? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Oh, _ _ [D] the holy ground, _ _ _ _ _
[C] [G] Kate Meal, the fault of [Am] their saints and their scholars [D] to see. _ _ _ _ _
[G] Oh, _ _ _ _ _ [D] the holy ground, _ _ _ _
[G] far away hills [Am] ain't as green as they once [D] used to be. _ _ _ _ _ _
It's Easter again, [G] and we can't forget [C] our brothers [G] and sisters and what was said,
[D] so you practice your pipes and [G] stand proud in the wet, for the [D] eyes of the world [G] are upon you. _
_ _ _ _ [D] Kelly is seventeen and [G] he thinks he's a man.
[C] He's out on the street [G] with a gun in his hand.
He's [D] protecting the pipers [C] who [G] play in the band while the enemy [D] waits with an [G] arm. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] D'yellah haren [G] and suckle the empire, [C] D'yellah [G] haren and suffer the loss
of [D] the green and the red and [C] the orange, white and blue,
and the blood and [D] the pain and [G] the hate's red. _
_ _ _ _ Oh, _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Kate Meal, the fault [Am] of their saints and their [D] scholars to see. _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ Oh, _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] far away hills ain't [A] as green as they once used to be. _
_ _ _ _ _ God in his mercy [G] has given us men [C] to lead us to peace, [G] but they can't put an end [D] to all those
young women [C] who are leaving the land, flying frightened over [G] the water. _ _ _
_ _ [D] Father walks home on [G] a colourless night, [C] the _ [G] organization is blind at his sight.
[D] His wife and his kids [G] are sleeping tonight [C] in the arms of Jesus [D] and Mary.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] the holy ground, _ _ _ _ [C] Kate Meal, [G] the fault of [Am] their saints and their scholars [D] to see.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Oh, _ _ _ _ [D] the holy ground, _ _ _ _ [C] far away [G] hills ain't [Am] as green as they once used [D] to be.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Kids wear white garters [G] and spell like their mothers, [C] whose husbands and [G] fathers alike
_ [D] drink black beer in the same [G] public houses, _ smelling [A] of smoke [G] and strong whiskey. _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Smelling of smoke [G] and strong whiskey. _ _ _ _ _
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