Chords for PADRAIG BAILEY PERFORMING ' THE FERRYMAN ' WITH PETE ST. JOHN AND THE COMPANY

[N] There's no way that [Ab] go on take yourself off there Pete grab the old whatever
We can't let Pete leave live at three in 1988 without getting him to do a wee [A] song for us
And of course we have something arranged Pete is joined now by [Gb] some friends [G] from the business
[Bb] Artists all in their own right for a [G] tribute to Dublin City at [Ab] the end of the Millennium year [Bb] Pete St.
John and company with the [N] ferryman
[C] It was a bright
chilly Sunday afternoon [Bb] in October
[Ab] 1984
when the
320 [Bb] year old proud tradition of river service came to an end
the Liffey ferry
Better known [Gb] to us as the workers ferry made its final [Bb] crossing of the famous river
from the Grand Canal Basin to Spencer Dock
[N] _ It was [G] a sad moment and on [B] that afternoon.
I spoke to one of the ferrymen and
He simply said
[Dbm]
Here I am redundant, and I'm only [N] 42
after 20 years befriending a machine and
[D] Then some speccy four-eyed expert [B]
on a grant from the [Bb] IDA
Says sorry mate.
It's over [C] [N] on your way
So the Dublin docks is dying [B] and the ferrymen are gone and the relics they gather rust like red [N] despair
And we've swapped our pints for glasses and we've run out of idle jokes and little things just vanish in the air
_ Like take [Ab] the case of the Liffey ferry
After nearly 50 years, it's [Db] got the chop and it has to stop and I see no one shedding tears
It seems like we're all zombies or like sheep that have no say
[N] Of course, [C] I never thought I'd see the [A] keys
Without a horse and [N] drag and
Them fellows up in Leinster house.
They [Ab] never heard a misery ill [Bb]
and they never cared about East Wall
And I know they [N] never will
[Gm] It's just another part of Dublin
That's gone [N] beyond recall _
the little [C] ferry for the workers
gone [N] forever
from North [A] Wall _ _ _ _ _ _
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Boats are gone [D] on the breast of [A] Vannerley [D] and the [Bm] ferrymen are stranded [E] on the quay
_ [A] Bad the Dublin ducks are dying [D] and it's way of [A] life is gone [E] and money is was part of [A] you and me
_ [E] Where the strawberry beds [D] sweep down [A] to the deep
[D] You kiss away the worries from [E] my brow
_ [A] I love you today
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ Was _ _ _ _ the only job I knew [D]
was hard but never lonely the [Bm] Liffey ferry [E] made a man of me
[A] Now it's gone without a whisper [D]
I've forgotten [A] even now
[E] But it's over Molly.
[A] Oh
_ _ [E] Well, the strawberry
[D] Sweet down [A] to the deep [D] you'll kiss away the worries from [E] my brow.
_ [A] I Love you Today
_ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ Well now I'll tend the yard [D] and I'll spend my [A] days and talk
[D] Hear them [Bm] whisper
[E] Charlie's on the dough
[A] About money we still live
_ [D]
Darling, [A] we're still young [E] and the river never owned me [A] heart and soul
_ [E] Where the strawberry bed
[D] Sweep down [A] to the deep [D] you'll kiss away the worries [E] from my brow.
_ [A] I Love you
_ _ [D] _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ Where _ _ _ [E] the strawberry
_ [D] Sweep down
[A] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [E] What a _ _ _ [A] lovely _ _ [Db] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
number all together, thank you indeed for [G] coming in and joining us
And in fact, if you want to see Pete and Co
They [Fm] will actually be getting together to [G] play once again on the [D] 26th of December
That's in [Db] Stephen's day or rather should I say night [C] in the National Concert Hall and it surely will be a marvelous evening
Well, [Db] listen, we're taking a short break now, but don't go away [Gm] because in part two
We'll be mixing [G] some cocktails for the season [E] that's in it Lee Dunn [G] will be here with another monologue
[Ab] We'll have [Gbm] music wolf tones [D] and Louise Morrissey and we plan to make contact with a [G] big man himself
Santa that's all in part two [Ab] of live at three.
See you in a moment _ _ _ _ _ _ _