Chords for John Spillane, Magic nights in the Lobby Bar

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Thanks a million.
We're delighted to [Em] be here [F] tonight.
Myself and Louis [Fm] _ de Puer here, the Gaelic [D] Hit Factory.
And we're going to do a load [E] of songs [C#] and poems [E] that we have made up [C] ourselves,
[D] ladies and gentlemen, out of our imagination.
And we're going to start off with a [C#] piece [B] called
_ _ _ [D#] _ Magic Nights in the Lobby [B] Bar,
_ [D] mixed with a [C] poem called [F] An _ _ Táiránaí.
_ [D] _ [B] Grímach go bheith. _ _
So far, [F] so good.
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_ _ [D#] An lá naoin fóistadh, dá [G] maithachas leith a chéile. _ _
Nor a chimh líon illing a [Em] léine sin le [Dm] gúiling a bhnaadh.
Buinn an [G] fharóg ar théabhel an tóimra a [F#m] gheansí sáirig do.
Is éireann [D] ar ar an tí an tásaí slú in [A] annam díleis dé. _ _ _
Guí an an chalean a bhfuil áileacht an fróin an agnúis,
go mese gan chéile, go [D] bheith a sé í. _ _ _
_ They were magic nights _ in the lobby bar,
with Brendan Ring _ _ playing Madame _ _ Bonaparte's.
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Every note that [F#m] the piper would play
_ would [G] send me away, _ _ send me away. _
Away through the window, _ away [D] through the rain.
_ Away [G] across the city, [D] _ away in the air.
[G] To a field by a river where the [D] trees are so green,
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the deepest of [D] green _ you've ever seen.
[G] Where once you have been, you can [D] go back again.
You [G] can go any time, [D] you can go any _ time,
cos it's _ only _ in [A]
your _ _ _ mind. _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Dm] These two here in front [D] of me think he's singing to only them.
[G] _ When he plays a loving lament, [D] their fingers ache [Em] to be home,
where they can play [D] on each other until morning.
_ _ [C#] The lonely and old flames are [F#m] amazed,
a man [Em] they've never met has the broken tunes of [D] their dreams
off [G] by heart on the tip of his tongue.
_ _ [D] _ When he touches the strings that [C] tie them together the first [D] time ever,
the [A] married couple in the corner move closer in spite of themselves. _
The sleeve of the man's shirt brushes his wife's shoulder,
a young fellow at the other end of the room [D] takes off his summer jumper
[Em] and asks the barman [D] to turn the heat down for God [G] Almighty's sake.
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The girl made lovely by sorrow prays he'll never rest till he finds her.
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_ _ [D] _ They were _ magic nights _ in the lobby bar
_ with Ricky Lynch and his golden guitar, _
singing [G] autumn in _ [F#m] Mayfield and the [D] barley was ripe.
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The harvest _ [F#m] moon hung low in the [D] sky.
_ [E] We were [F#m] children and our [G] mothers were fat, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ and fathers were _ [D] tall and quaint.
_ [G] And every word _ [F#m] Ricky would play _ would [Em] send me away,
_ [D] _ send me away, [G]
away through the window,
_ [F#m] away through [D] the rain, _ away across [G] the city,
[D] _ away in the air to [G] a field by a river [F#m] where the trees are [D] so green,
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_ deepest of [D] green _ you've ever seen,
[G] where once you have been you can [D] go back again,
you [G] can go any time, you [D] can go any time,
_ _ because it's [G] _ only _ in _ your _ _ [Am] mind. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Outside _ a fleet of sirens [D] storms the [G] night,
_ squad cars, _ ambulances and fire [Em] brigades running from the fire [C] that can't be put [D] out
in the smouldering [G] hearts of the men inside who are late again [D] for the never-ending [G] funeral. _
_ Beside [D] the bridge the [G] morse code of loneliness _ broadcast on [F#]
flurries of air
is clear as [C] day to the man who has just [D] jumped.
_ The water [G] is smooth as a sheet and he is deaf to [D] the world as the music fills his [C]
mouth,
washing away a world of [D]
worries.
_ _ The singer _ [A] keeps on strumming the [Am] strings that stretch from the heart to the mouth of his guitar. _
His [G] cry is soft as the river, [D]
a blanket of water [E] drawn up over [A] all our sleepy heads. _ _
_ _ They [D] were magic nights _ in the lobby bar _ when Ger Wolf would sing like a lark,
[G] singing winter _ hung _ [D] her coat on a hanger [G] _ of _ dark.
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[G] I am the blood [F#m] of Erin _ _ _ [Em] spilt in an empty [D] _ _ cave.
I [G] _ _ am the floor _ [F#m] of Ireland _ out on [Am] that drifting [D] _ _ _ wave.
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I am the _ [F#m] lark of Mayfield _ _ tumbling [A] _
_ [D] down the hill. _
_ [G] I am the child [F#m] of [D] summer, _ [E] I can _ [A] remember _ [D] you still.
_ _ [G] Every word _ _ [F#m] Ger would say [E] would send me [G] away, _ [D] _ send me away,
[G] away through the window, _ [F#m] away [D] through the rain,
on [Em] a carriage of music, [D] away in the air,
to [G] a field by a river [F#m] where the trees are so green,
[Em] _ the deepest of [D] green _ you've ever seen,
[G] where once you have been you can go [D]
back again.
You can [G] go any time, you can [D] go any _ [A] time,
because it's _ only _ in your _ _ _ mind.
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_ The singer is so [F#m] fond of the violin,
_ the [Em] _ _ sound [D] of the violin is so loud in the world, so loud in the world.
[G] _ _ _ _ The singer keeps on strumming [E] the strings _ that stretch from the heart to [G] the mouth of his guitar.
_ _ The singer is [F#] so fond of the violin, _ [Em] the sound of the [D] violin is so loud in the world. _ _
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_ It [G] was autumn in _ Mayfield and the [F#m] barley was [G]
ripe,
_ the harvest _ [F#m]
moon hung low [D] in the sky. _
We were [F#m] children and [G] our mothers _ were _ _ young,
_ our [A] fathers _ were [D] _ tall _ [A] _ and _ [D] _ kind. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Thank you very much. _ _