Chords for Dougie Breslin - Jackie Duddy

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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _
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[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [E] Jagade, I remember [D] your face from [Em] a far distant place.
[C] _ Yes, [C] I do.
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_ Jagade, [E] you were an innocent [D] boy.
_ _ Why [Em] did they destroy [C] your [E] future?
Oh, to you, _ _ _ _ [G]
it came from a home of nine sisters and [D] five brothers.
_ _ Up in [Em] the crag and _ _ you were [C] my cousin. _ _ _
[G] You worked with me, brother, just a name after me, [D] father. _ _ _
[Em] Nine in springtime, _ _ [C] ten in winter. _ _ _ _
[G] _ Jagade, _ [Em] you were just [D] seventeen _ when they [Em] shattered your dreams.
[C] _ And we never got over it. _ _ _
[G] _ Jagade, _ [E] you'd have found a good [D] wife _ and had a [Em] wonderful life
[C] _ and raised your weans well.
_ _ [G]
In sixty-eight, your mother, Maureen, she died.
[D] And with Willie, your father, [Em] we cried.
_ _ She [C] was so very young. _ _
[D] Her sister, Dolly, [G] said if Maureen had survived,
[D] she'd have been in that coffin [Em] by your side.
Jagade, your mother [C] couldn't have coped. _ _ _ _
[G] _ Jagade, [Em] _ you were [D] good in the ring.
_ _ Because [Em] that was your thing.
_ You would have been [C] a champion.
_ _ _ [G] _
_ Jagade, [E] your nephew, John, did you pride.
He's recognized [Em] by the crowd as fulfilling your [C] ambitions.
_ _ _ _ [G]
Your face is painted in murals down in [D] the bog.
_ And I pray [Em] to God _ that you'll not be [C] forgotten.
_ _ _ _ [G]
That day in seventy-two, it's etched on our [D] minds.
The day that innocence [Em] died, _ they called it [C] Bloody Sunday.
_ _ _ [G] _
Jagade, there were thirteen [D] others as well.
More unfinished [Em] stories to tell. _ _ _ _
[C] Jagade, _ _ _ [G] _
Jagade, _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ Jagade, [Em] our _ Jagade, _ _ [C] Jagade.
_ _ _ [G] On a summer's day in Derry in two thousand [D] and ten,
_ thousands gathered [Em] again, _ _ and the world had [C] gone.
_ _ _ _ [G]
The British government said sorry and admitted [Dm] they're wrong.
The clapping went on [Em] and on.
The cheering went [C] on and on.
_ _ _ [G] _
Jagade, your innocence was [D] declared.
_ Your family's [Em] voices were heard _ after thirty [C]-eight years.
_ _ _ [G] _
Jagade, now [G] you can rest in [D] peace.
_ The false [Em] accusations have ceased.
The truth has been [C] set free.
_ Honey [G] _
_ _ _ Dorothy, _
[Dm] _ _ [D] Gerald Donaghy, _
[Em] _ _ Hugh Gilmore, and [D] Michael Kelly.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ Michael McDade, _
[Dm] _ Kevin Michael Henney, _
[Em] _ _ Bernard McQuaiggan, and [D] Gerald McKinney.
[C] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ William McKinney, [Dm] _ _ William [D] Nash, [Em] _ _ _ James Ray, [D] John Johnston,
[C] _ John Young, [G] and Jackie Duddy. _ _ _
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[Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
[G] Jackie Duddy. _ _ _
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