Chords for Collette-The Old Man's Wish

[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ I was walking to the airport [Bb] with my suitcase and my bags _ when an [Eb] old, old man approached me and his clothes were all in rags.
Every footstep seemed an effort.
[Ab] There was anguish in his speech.
_ He said,
[Bb] Colleen, forgive me asking, do you come from [Eb] Poundy Leash?
_ _ _ Well, I could not help but wonder, as he did his best to talk, how he ended [Ab] up so broken in the subways of New York.
[Bb] _
Then I heard my flight announcement, but before [Eb] I went my way, he said, Colleen, do [Ab] me a favour when you get back home today.
_ [Eb] _
Will you give my love to Emo and the tears [Bb] roll down his face?
_ _ Will you make a wish for me [Eb]
beside the rock of Donna Mays?
_ _ [Ab]
Will you smile on Bally Brittas and just tell her [Eb] _
it's from me?
_ _ And when you [Bb] light a little candle in the church [Eb] in Clonislea.
_ _ As _ _ the jet plane soared to Ireland, he kept coming to [Ab] my mind.
_ I could see his tragic features [Bb]
as I left them far behind.
_ [Gm] _ _ [Eb]
I just could not bear to tell him that I'm not from Leash at all, that I come from near Bundoran in the county [Ab]
Donegal.
_ _ _ Well, I suppose [Bb] you say I'm foolish and who knows?
Perhaps [Eb] I am.
_ _ But I know I had to grant that wish to that old, old broken man.
_ _ _ [Ab]
As the sun set over Ireland, I was on my way to Leash.
_ [Bb]
I could see his troubled features.
_ I could hear [Eb] his voice, he seached.
_ _ So I gave his love to Emo as I thought of his sad face _ [Ab]
and I made a wish for him beside the rock of Donna [Bb] Mays.
_ And I smiled on Bally Brittas _ [Eb]
just like he asked of me.
_ And then I left his [Ab] little candle in the church at Clonislea.
_ [Eb] _
_ When three years went by, or maybe [Bb] four, _ I soon forgot it all.
_ _ [Eb]
I settled down and married in my native Donegal.
[Ab] _
Then one night as I was walking home, [Eb] this brilliant light appeared and in it stood the old, [Bb] old man.
_ He smiled and said, _ [Eb] don't fear.
_ He said, I've come to thank you.
And his face was all aglow.
_ _ [Ab]
And then my mind flew back to County Leash, [Bb] it seemed so long ago.
_ And suddenly [Eb]
he disappeared.
_ But I felt, ah, that stranger's peace.
_ For I knew that [Ab] God had called him home to heaven and to Leash.
[Bb] _
_ _ He said, give my love to Emo [Eb]
and the light shone round his face _ _ and make a wish for me _ beside the rock of [Ab] Donna Mays.
_ _ Please smile on Bally Brittas [Bb]
and just tell her it's from me.
_ _ [Eb]
And when you light a little candle _ in a church at Clonislea.
_ _ [Fm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
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