Chords for Damien Dempsey Spraypaint Backalley

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_ _ _ _ [B] _ Down the straightway [F#m] by galley _ _ I look up at the sky
_ _ [B] And I see through [F#m] red _ eyes _ The seagulls wheel around and [B] around
On our couches [F#m] and _ fridges [A] _ And mongrel [F#m] dogs roam _ free
[B] _ There are rags and [F#m] there are riches [A] _ _ Inside this [F#m] head for me _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ We drink cheap [F#m] English cider _ _
[A] And smoke hashish [F#m] from our Catholic eye
[B] _ I've been trying to [F#m] get the mix _ [A] right But I haven't got [F#m] it right _ [B] tonight
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_ _ _ _ [B] _ I've a fifteen year [F#] old _ [F#m] moustache [A] I'm so desperate [F#m] for the VMI
_ _ [B] _ People tell me [F#m] shave it _ off [A] _ If I shave it [F#m] I'm a boy _ _ [B] again
Watch my father [F#m] and my _ brother [A] _ Fixing [E] old _ _ [B] cars
And our rough oil [F#m] stains hands [A] _ Our skins _ [G#] and [F#m] _ scars _
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[B] _ Behind this big [F#m] rusty shed door _
[A] _ There's a punch bag [F#m] and a clapped out car
[B] _ As the car sits [F#m] on breeze blocks [A] The punch bag [F#m] takes some heavy shots
[B] _ Down the laneway [F#m] sniffing petrol _ _
[A] I thought pebble dash [F#m] was snow _ _
[B] _ As I stumble [F#m] in a blizzard [A] The _ pain [F#m] inside me _ _ [B] disappears
Across the city [F#m] down the alley _ _
[A] _ A thousand kids [F#m] like me
[B] _ They are watching [F#m] through red _ _
[A] eyes The flock of little [F#m] _ birds gracefully [B] gliding _ by
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[A] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] Fall in the lane _
[F#m] Lost in the lane
[A] Swallowed the shame [F#m] Then I fought again
[B] Fall in the lane [F#m] Ride in the lane
[A] Swallowed the pain [F#m] Then I fought again
[B] Fell in the lane [F#m] Thought my country the name
[A] Ride in the lane [F#m] Came alive again _ _ _ _
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[E] _ We [C#m] at the _ [B] live the cotta
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[C#m] The song of a _ song
[F#] _ Longing and the dust _ _ _
[E] We _ [C#m] at the [B] live the cotta
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[C#m] The song of a _ song
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[E] We _ [C#m] at the _ [B] live the _ _ cotta
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[C#m] The song of a _ song
[F#] _ _ _ _ We _ _
[E] _ _ _ [C#m] at the live [B] the cotta
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[C#m] The song of a song _
[F#] _ Longing and [E] the _ dust _ _ The stars _ _
_ _ _ The stars _
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