Chords for Jim McCann - Spancil Hill [Audio Stream]

I don't suppose we've got any Americans in the audience tonight?
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_ _ Ah, they're keeping a low profile, fair enough.
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_ Here's a song for all the thousands of American visitors. _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ It's a song [G] about this American man, [C] _ _ _ [D] _
who went away to America _ to make a few bob.
[G] Didn't we all at some [C] stage? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] He soon discovered he was never [C] going to make enough money to get home _ [D] to Ireland, which can happen. _ _ _ _
[C] Happened to _ Kennedy's.
Yes!
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Dm] _ More recently, the Reagans got harassed. _ _ _ _
[C] _ Never mind. _ _
_ _ [A] _ [G] _ _
The hero of this song [D] fell asleep one night in California, if such a thing is possible. _
[C] And really, he was back in his hometown [G] of Spatial Hill in the county prayer.
[C] Maybe that's all it [D] was to him. _ _ _
It always is.
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[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
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_ Last night as [G] I lay dreaming _ _
_ _ Of pleasant _ [D] days gone [Dm] by _
Me _ mind went bent on _ _ rambling
[G] [C] To Ireland [G] _
I did fly
[C] _
_ [Dm] I stepped on board a vision _
[G] And I followed _ with the will _ _
_ Till [Dm] next [Am] I came [C] to anchor
[G] _
At the cross of _ [D] Spatial _ Hill
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
It been on the [G] _ _ [C] _ 23rd of June
The day [G] _ _
before the [Dm] fair _
_ When _ _ [Am]
Ireland's sons [D] and _ daughters
[C] And _ friends _ [G] assembled _ _ [C]
there
[D] The young, the old, the brave and [A] the bold
Came [C] there to tea to [G] _ fulfill
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At [D] the _ [A] parish [G] church [C] in Clooney
[G] _
A mile from Spatial _ [Dm] Hill _
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I went to [G] see [C] me neighbors _
To see [G] what they [Dm] might say _
_ The old [A] ones were [D] all dead and [G] gone
[C] The young ones _ [G] turned and grey
[C] _
_ [G] But I [Dm] met the tailor _ quickly _
_ [G] [C] He's as _ bold as [G] ever still
[C] _
_ [D] I used to make [C] me _ britches
_ When I _ [G] lived in [D] Spatial _ Hill
_ [F] _ [D] _ _ _ _
Then I _ [A] paid a [G] flying [C] _ visit _
_ To my [G] first and only [Dm] love _
_ She's as white [A]
as [D] any [Dm] _ _ [A] _
lily
[C] And gentle _
[G] _ as a dove
[C] _
And [A] she threw her [F] arms [Dm] around me
_ [C] Saying, Johnny, [G] I love you _ [C] still
Ah, [D] she's now the _ [G] [C] farmer's daughter
The _ _ [G] pride of _ Spatial [Dm] _ Hill
_ _ _ _ _ _
I _ dreamt I [G] held [C] and kissed her
_ As in [G] the days of [Dm] _ _
yore
Ah, Johnny, you're _ only _ joking
_ [G] [C] As many's _ [G] betrying _ before
[C] _
Then [Dm] the cock he crew in the _ morning
_ [G] [C] He crew both [G] loud and [C] shrill
I [Dm] _ awoke in [G] _ _ [C] _ _ California
_ Many [G] miles from _ [Dm] Spatial _ _ [A]
Hill
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