Dublin In My Tears Chords by Patsy Watchorn

[F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] I have travelled _ many lands, and I still can't _ understand _
[Bb] How sad [F] you have [Gm] become on my [C] return
_ Your _ [D] _ [C]
[F] old heart is filled with care, _ sad and old they left you there _
[Gm] Your once bright [C] eyes with sorrow _ [F] softly burned
[Gm] _ _ [F] I [Gm] _ [F]
[Bb] can [F] even [Gm] sense the [D] change [F] in the sound of children's games
[Gm] And the dreams of ye time [C] ambition _ [F] have all turned to doubt and fear
[Gm] _ [F]
[Bb] It's an age of wealth [Gm] I'm told, _ [F] but I've never felt so old
[Gm] As I recall [C] old Dublin in [F] my tears
All _ _ the faces that I meet _ as I roam each one way street _ _
[Bb] Reflect [F] the empty [Gm] statement _ [C] of our time
[Gm] _ [C] And _ _ [F] the old cathedral bell _ can't be heard above the swell _
[Gm] For years arranged [C] a message in [F] her chimes
_ All [Gm] _ [F]
[Bb] my childhood [Gm] friends are gone, [C] _
[F] like the street where I was born _
[Gm] And the time that it [C] has taken _ [F] doesn't seem so many years
[Bb] They have [Dm] faded in [Gm] the gloom, [C] _
[F] like old Piddy from the coon _
[Gm] Like the ghost of dear [C] old Dublin in [F] my tears
There _ _ were times when jobs were few, _ there were hungry days we knew _
[Bb] Some days [F] so bad [Gm] their memory [C] I curse
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[F] And the prayer I said to God _ while on board the princess Maud
That [Gm] our children would [C] restore the pride [F] we lost
But _ _ [Gm] _ [F]
[Bb] the [Dm] past we all [Gm] forsake, _ [F]
while we're dancing at her wake
And [Bb] the heart of [C] Dublin's dying, but [F] nobody _ really cares
[Bb] And the fools as they [Gm] pass by, stop [F] to see an old man cry _
[Gm] I can't forget [C] old Dublin in [F] my tears
_ [Db] Gather _ _
[Gb] round brave men and true, _ though the numbers may be few _
[B] We'll drink [Ebm] one toast [Abm] before we cross [Db] the foam
[Gb] _ [Db] For _ _ [Gb] soon in London's dark domain, _ I recall how I became _
[Abm] No more a stranger [Db] there than here at [Gb] home
_ _ _ [Abm] _ [Gb]
[B] But the [Ebm] Liffey [Abm] throws along, _ [Gb] and I listen for her song _
[Abm] And the voice of young [Db] Jim Larkin _ [Gb] seems to echo in my ears
[B] But it's just the [Abm] rafters' ring, _ [Gb] to its _ requiem I'll sing _ _
[Abm] Farewell to dear [Db] old Dublin in [Gb] my _ tears
Oh, _ [Abm] I can't forget [Db] old Dublin _ in [B] my tears
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