Tessie Chords by Dropkick Murphys

_ _ Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and welcome to Fenway Park.
Leading off for the dropkick Murphys, playing the bagpipes,
number 17,
Scruffy Wallace.
Wallace on bagpipes.
On drums,
number 55, Matt Kelly.
Kelly on drums.
On electric guitar, number 77, James Lynch.
Lynch on electric guitar.
On lead guitar and today on piano, number 7, [Bb] Mark the Kid Orrell.
Orrell on piano.
[N] _ Playing mandolin,
acoustic guitar, tin whistle and accordion, number 44, Tim Brennan.
Brennan on a slew of instruments.
_ On vocals and bass guitar, team captain, number 19, Ken Casey.
Casey on vocals and bass guitar.
And starting tonight [F] with lead vocals,
[Bb]
number 00, Al Barr.
[F] Barr on lead vocals.
Ladies and gentlemen, [Bb] boys and girls, [F] the dropkick Murphys.
[Bb] Tessie is the royal who does rally [F] cry.
Tessie is the tune they always sung.
Tessie echoed April through October [Bb] nights after serenading [F] Stall the Nene and Yaw.
[Bb] Tessie is a maiden with a sparkling [F] eye.
Tessie is a maiden with a love.
She doesn't know the meaning of her [Bb] sight.
She's got [F] a charming _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ [Bb] voice.
And sometimes when the game is on the [F] line, Tessie always carried them away.
_ The Betts to [Eb] Huntington, the boys would always [F] sing and sway.
_ _ [Bb] _
Tessie, Nelson, [Eb] McGreevy, Charlotte, we're not here to mess [Bb] around.
Boston, [F] you know we love, [Bb] and they hear the crowd [F] roar to your sound.
[Bb]
We must slip when you're here but [Eb] don't you know, you know we good.
_ [F] _
Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, [Bb] Tessie, _ [F] _ [Bb] Tessie.
The Rooters showed up at the grounds one [F] day.
They found the seats that had all been sold.
McGreevy led the charge into the park, [Bb] stormed the gates and booked the [F] game on hold.
[Bb] The Rooters gave the other team a dreadful [F] fright.
Boston's hit man could not be wronged.
Up from third base to Huntington, [Eb] they sang another [F] victory _ song.
[Bb] Tessie, Nelson, [Eb] McGreevy, Charlotte, we're not here to mess [Bb] around.
Boston, [F] you know we love, and [Bb] they hear the crowd roar [F] to your sound.
[Bb] So we must slip when you're here but [Eb] don't you know, you know [Ebm] we good.
_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, Tessie.
The [F] _
_ [Bb] Rooters gave the other team a dreadful [F] fright.
Boston's hit man could not be wronged.
Up from third base to Huntington, they sang another victory song.
_ _ [Bb] Tessie, Nelson, [Eb] McGreevy, Charlotte, we're not here to mess [Bb] around.
Boston, [F] you know we love, [Bb] and they hear the crowd [F] roar to your [Bb] sound.
So we must slip when you're here but don't you [Eb] know, you know [Ebm] we good.
_ [F] _ Tessie, Tessie, [Bb] Tessie, Tessie, [F] Tessie, Tessie, Tessie, [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Ebm] _ [F] Tessie.
_ _ _ [Bb] _
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] Don't blame us if we ever doubt [Eb] you.
You know we could live without [F] you.
Boston, you are the only, [Bb] only, [F] only.
[Bb] Don't blame us if we ever doubt [Eb] you.
You know we could live without [F] you.
You're the only, [Bb] only, [F] only.
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