Luke Kelly The Blantyre Explosion Chords

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[Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ By _ Clyde's [Bb] bonnie banks, [Gm] as I sadly did [Dm] wander _ _
[Bb] Among _ the pit [Cm] _ heaps [Gm] as evening _ [G] grew nigh
[Gm] _ _
I spied a young maiden, all dressed in deep [Dm] mourning
_ [Bb] A _ -weepin' [Cm] and wailin' with [Gm] many _ [G] a [Gm] sigh
_ _ I [G] stepped up beside her, and this I [D] addressed her
_ Pray [Gm] _
tell me, fair [Bb] maid, of your [Cm]
trouble and [D] _ pain
_ _ [Gm] _
_ Sobbing and sighing, at last she did [Dm] answer
_ _ [Bb] Johnny Murphy, kind [C] sir, was my [Gm] true [Cm] _ [Gm] lover's name _ _ _
Twenty-one years of [Bb] age, [Gm] full of youth and [Dm] good-looking _ _ _
[Bb] To work [Cm] down the mines of [Gm]
Hydeland Tyre he came _ _ _
The wedding [Bb] was fixed, [Gm] all the guests [Dm] were invited _ _ _
[Bb] That calm [C] summer's evening, [Gm] my Johnny _ was slain _ _
The [G] explosion [Am] was heard, [G] all the women and [D] children _
[Gm] With pale anxious faces, made haste to [D] the mine _ _
[G] When the truth [Gm] was made known, the hills rang with their [Dm] mourning
Three [Bb] _ _ hundred [Cm] and ten _ [G] young miners [C] were [G] slain
[Gm] _
Now _ _ _ husbands and wives and _ sweethearts and [Dm] brothers _
That _ [Bb] _ _ Blantyre [C] explosion [G] _ [Gm] they'll never _ forget _
_ _ And all you young miners who [G] hear [Dm] my sad _ story
_ _ [Bb] Shed a tear [C] for the victims [Gm] who are laid to [C] rest
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