Chords for Loftus Jones, performed by Patrick Street

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_ [C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ Back in Ireland [D] _ _ a couple of hundred [B] years ago,
_ [C] _ the [D] place was regarded [B] as a nation of hout players.
[A#] _ And one of the more famous [B] hout players was a man called Turlough O'Carrollan. _
[Cm] And he was a blind man who, _ he [D] went blind as a [Bm] teenager,
and _
[D] it was suggested [E] he better try and find some way of work,
some [D] way of working, some way of looking after himself.
_ _ But _ _ his options were severely limited now that he'd lost his sight,
and somebody suggested [C#m] music.
_ So he says, [A#m] well, I'll give it a go,
[C] _ and [D] it discovered he had a great talent for _ [B] not only playing music, [A#m] but writing music.
[C#] _ So from then on, that's how he made his living,
and he'd travel around _ the countryside in Ireland, visiting the big houses,
_ _ _ and [C#m] he'd _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ stay in the house and play music for [C#] the _ residents [Bm] and their friends and neighbours,
[B] and after a couple [C] of weeks he'd [G#] move on,
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and _ he would [C] typically _
_ [C#] _ [B] pay _ [G#] _ _
his [A] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [C#m] thanks to [C#] the [C] host and hostess by [F#] writing a tune for them.
_ _ _ [A#] And then he'd walk off down the road [C] until he got tired and went into the next house.
_ [G] So it was kind of a [C] lonely life, and someone gave [B] him _
[D#] a donkey as a [G#] companion,
_ [B] _
and it [C#] also worked out as the kind of prototype _ [A#] _ _ _ _
[C] seeing-eye dog.
_ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ And it was a seeing-eye [B] donkey.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D#] Luckily, luckily it didn't really catch [G#] on. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ But that's how he [D] made his way for the rest of his life,
and _ _ [G#] he wrote [D#] this piece of music _ for a [D] family, [D#] for _ _ [F#] some friends [D] of his _ that lived up in [G] Sligo,
[A#] _ [Dm] and [G] they had a new baby, so he [C#] wrote the tune in honour of [B] the birth of the [A#] new baby,
and the [C#] family name was [C] [A#] Jones, and [C#] the [B] baby was called [D] Loftus,
so [C] the piece [A#] of music was called Loftus Jones. _
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_ [A#] _ That's the first note. _
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_ _ _ _ And then _
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_ [F#m] the second note.
_ And then the third note.
And then the fourth note.
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_ [F#m] _ _ _ [E] _ [D] the fifth note.
And then the sixth note.
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[E] _ _ then the [A] seventh note. _
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