Chords for Damien Dempsey - Canadian Geese

_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Na na [B] na, [A] na na, _ na na [B] na
_ [A] _ _ _ Down Cook Barley Road, [E] a head full of coast
[F#m] As the northern estates [C#m] close in
_ [F#m] They're closing on me [C#m] so blatantly
_ [F#m]
A [G#m] thickening [A] of the skin
Well _ _ _ _ the inner city folk, _ [E]
they often spoke
[F#m] With a tongue that was more [C#m] like a fist
_ [F#m] On the _ reservation [C#m]
six miles north
[F#m] Of the [G#m] slums that some [A] still missed
_ _ _ _ _ Na na na, _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ na na, na _ _ _ _ na na
We'd walk the train tracks, [E] out to the haystacks
[F#m] As they swept towards the [C#m] greener world
_ [F#m] Under Bald Isle [C#m] Bridge, the gateway ridge
[F#m] Our [G#m] hayjump dreams [A] unfold
[B] On [A] _
_ _ _ the Belfast train, [E] nearly killed my friend [F#m] Wynne
As I sped like a bullet [C#m]
flying
_ [F#m] Carrying souls and dreams [C#m] like a time machine
Back [F#m] to _ [G#m] 1690 [A] _
meantime
_ Na _ na na, [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ na na, na [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ na na _ _ _ _ _ _ _
On _ _ _ _ the flat of my back, [E] in that field by the tracks
[F#m] The Canadian geese [C#m] flew by
In [F#m] my mind, I up [C#m] and join with them
[F#m] And we glide [G#m] out to _ [A] Ireland's [F#m] eye
[A] _
We _ can be free, [E] but a little khaki
[F#m] Rivers of time can [C#m] take us far
[F#m] And our friends and lovers [C#m]
we have yet to [F#m] meet
[G#m] And tonight, [A] they are watching [B] these same _ [A] stars _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [F#m]
I [G#m] was born [A] to wander and [E] I'm
[B] Not afraid [F#m] to be free now
My [G#m] heart grows [A] by a wonder for [E] these streets
[B] When your face [F#m] I don't see now
Why [G#m] don't you [A] drop everything [E] tonight
[B] And we can ride [F#m] to the sea now
I'll [G#m] always [A] be top of the [E] enemy
[B] Do you dare [F#m] to be free and we snatch [G#m] victory
From the jaws [A] of these streets now
When these walls [F#m] they're closing and your heart's [G#m] lost again
Let's escape [A] to the sea now
I can see [C#m] every face of broken ghosts [B] of this place
And they have [F#m] lost the key now _ _
_ _ [A] Na na na, na na, _ _ na na na
[E] _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ [A] Na na na, na na, [B] na na [A] _
_ na _ _ _ _ _
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