Chords for Joe McDonnell

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_ Oh my name is Joe McDonald
[C]
From Belfast town [G] I came
[C] That city [G] I will never see [D] again
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[G] For in time of Belfast
I [C] spent many [G] happy days
[C] And I love that time
[G] Oh so many [D] ways
And _ _ [C] still I spent my childhood
[Am] And find for [G] me always
[A] I then set out [G] to make for her [D] a life
_ _ [G] Oh but all my own ambition
[C] Met with bitterness [G] and hate
[C] I soon find [G] myself inside a [D] prison gate _
_ [A] And you dare to call [C] me a terrorist
[Am] Why do you look down [G] your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you [D] have done
_ _ [G] You have plundered many nations
_ Divided many lands
[C] You have terrorized our people
You ruled with an iron [D] hand
[G] And you brought this reign [Em] of terror to [D] my land
_ [G] Through the many months and time and
[C] In its own [G]
enemies
[C] I thought about [G] my land throughout [D] those days
_ _ [G] Though my country was divided
[C] Why I was [G] not an angel
[C]
Imprisoned [G] without crime or [D] without trial _
[A] And though I [C] love my country
[Am] I am not a [G] better man
[A] I've seen cruelty [G] and injustice at [D] first sight
_ _ [G] And so one fateful morning
[C] I shook [G] bold freedom's hand
[C] For right or wrong [G] I tried to free [D] my head
_ _ _ [G] Then one cold October morning
[C] I was trapped in a [G] lion's den
[C] And I find [G] myself in prison [D] once again
I [G] was committed to the heated blocks
[C] For fourteen [G] years or more
[C] In the blanket [G] of the conditions [D] they were poor
_ _ [Am] Then a hunger [G] strike we did commence
[Am] For the dignity [G] of man
[Am] But it seemed to me [G] that no one gave [D] a damn
_ _ [G] Oh but now I am a saddened [C] man
I've watched my [G] comrades die
[C] If only [G] people cared or [D] wondered why _ _
[G] Oh may God shine on you Bobby Sands
[C] For the courage [G] you have shown
[C] May your glory [G] and your fame be widely [D] known
_ _ [G] And Francis, Sunday MacRish
[C] Who died [G] _
unselfishly
[C] And Patio [G] Hall and next in [D] line is me
And _ _ those who lie [C] behind me
[Am] May your courage be the [G]
same
And they pray to God my life was not [D] ending
_ _ _ And [G] though sad winter was the year [C] of [G] 1981 _
_ [C] For everything [G] they've lost _ [D] nothing's won
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