Chords for Ron Hynes - Back Home on The Island

[B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
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_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ [C#m] _ [F#] _
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ you
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[E] or [F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ the [E] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [D] tired _ nights from Warn Wood [E] stalled [A] and also [E] Western shoot [F#]
really
_ _ drove [B] into every harbor and every cove [E] like the devil [G] outside [C#] your door _ [E] _
_ [A] back [E] home on [F#m] the
island [A] people [D] are watching [E] the sun [A] go down _ _ _ [D] on what used [E] to be a mighty [A] good [E] fishing _ [F#] ground _
[B] it'll never be the same [E] again _ _ cause [D] all the trawlers came and they picked it [E] clean and
what [A] was left [C#m] of the pickings [F#] was a little too lean and [B] now Lukey's old boat is just a pale shade
of green [E] and she's laying up on [C#m] the sand _ [E] _ _ and if [D] you think that's a joke well let me tell [E] you
brother that [A] I don't [E] see nothing to [F#] laugh about _ so you [B] better get out while you think you still
can _ [E] _ [G] I hear they got a few [C#m] jobs left on the [E] _ mainland [A] _ [E] back home on [F#m] the island people [D] are
waking [E] to another [A] day _ and [D] they're thinking [E] that there's gotta be [A] a better [F#] way than just
[B] drawing that _ welfare [E] pay _ _ and all [D] the kids are in school so they don't get [E] fooled and they won't be
dependent [F#] on those fishing tools but [B] they will do them just as good as any golden rules [E] after
_ _ everything's said [C#m] and done [E] _ _ [A] so _ [C#m] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [C#m] _ [F#] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ you [D] go downtown and you stand and [E] stare _ and [A] you chug a [E] log a mug of
that [F#] _ Canadian beer and you [B] laugh out loud like you were some kind of lucky man [E] and you keep on
[G] moving in [C#m]
droves to the [E] _ mainland [A] but [E] back home on [F#m] the island people [D] are remembering [E] the better
[A] days _ _ _ [D] when it used to [E] be a place [A] where the fishermen [F#m]
gathered now [B] it's only _ _ [E]
memories
_ _ and [D] we can all drink a toast to the boys [E] on the hill [A] cuz they didn't [C#m] give a damn and [F#] they never
will but [B] we lived here then and we're living here still [E] and we're watching [G] that ocean [C#m] _ roll
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [C#m] _ [D] _ _
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