Chords for Séamus Egan and John Doyle ! - "Playing The Birds Out Of The Trees" !...

[A] When we lived in Ireland we didn't have a television and my father and my mother had
heard that there was going to be a [E] special on with _
[A] Matt Molloy and James Galway [Db] so they
brought us down to [G] a neighbour's house who had a television. _ _ _ _
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_ [D] I just remember being fascinated by the [Abm] sound of the flute at that stage and [G] up until then
I tried to play it but with _ not much success and much frustration. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [N] The fact that I'm at 50 years of age now and I started when I was 9 and I'm still at it
and as long as I can breathe I'll play.
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And yes, I mean if you lose the passion, forget it, I mean, _ go back to the day job. _ _
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The new ideas and new [Bb] things need to happen in order for it to stay alive.
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_ And I mean it's important that it [Bb] doesn't become [G] _
[Cm] something that's [G] protected behind [Bb] glass.
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So I think, [C] yeah, I mean the people that came before [Fm] us, they _ made it their [Gb] own.
I mean it was still within [Ab] the tradition but [C] a sense of belonging, a sense of belonging
and a sense of pride that this [Bb] stamp was placed on it.
[G] And it was their innovations and their [Bb] moving things forward that excited the next [Ab] generation to start to play.
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I mean if you look at Irish music on [Bb] the written page, for the most [Gm] part it's the skeleton [Bb] of the tune.
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It's kind of [Gm] like, it's the rule book more or less [Fm] of how this particular [F] piece is to be played.
But it's wide open for [Cm] interpretation.
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The melody isn't, if the [Bb] melody isn't strong it [Eb] _
won't last.
I mean there's a reason these [Bb] tunes have lasted so [Cm] _
long.
They have a quality, [F] _ whether _ you can write it out on paper or it's just something that you feel.
I mean there's something inherent in these melodies that is [Bb] the reason why they've endured.
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