Chords for Sinead O' Connor - Famine

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[Bbm] [B]
[F] Okay, I [Ebm] want to talk about Ireland.
[Dm] [Bb] Specifically, I want to talk [Abm] about the famine.
[F] About the
fact [Eb] that there never really was [D] one.
[Bb] There was [Ab] no famine.
[F] See, Irish people were only
[Eb] allowed to eat potatoes.
[D] All [Bb] of the other food, meat, [Fm] fish, vegetables, were shipped
out of the [Ebm] country under armed bar [D] to England while the [Eb] Irish people [Ab] starved.
[F] And then,
[Eb] in the middle of all this, [D] they gave us money not [Bbm] to teach our [Fm] children Irish.
And so, [Eb] we
lost our history.
[D] And this is what I think [Bbm] is still [Ab] hurting me.
[F] You see, we're like a
[Eb] child that's been battered, [D] has to drive itself out [Bb] of its head [Ab] because it's frightened, [F] still
feels all [Ab] the painful feelings.
[D] But they lose [Bb] contact [F] with the memory.
And this leads [B] to
massive self [D]-destruction, [B] alcoholism, drug [F] addiction, all desperate attempts [Eb] at running.
And [Bb] in its worst form, become actual killing.
[F] And [G] if there ever [Eb] is going to be healing,
[D] there has to [Bb] be remembering and then [F] grieving so that the then [Eb] can be forgiving.
[Dm] There has
to [Bb] be knowledge and [Ab] [Cm] understanding.
[Dm] [Bb] [Fm] An [Ab]
[D] [F] American army [Eb] regulation [Dm] says you mustn't kill more than [Bb] 10% [F] of a nation because to do so
would cause [Ebm] permanent psychological [D] damage.
It's not [Bbm] permanent, but they [Fm] didn't know that.
Anyway, during [Eb] the supposed famine, [G] we lost a lot more than [Bb] 10% [Ab] of our nation [F] to deaths
on land [Ebm] or on ships of emigration.
[E] What would finally broke us [Bb] is not [F] starvation, no, it's
using the [B] controlling of our [Ab] education.
Schools [B] go on about Black [Fm] 47, on and on [Eb] about the
terrible famine.
[D] But what they don't [Bb] say is in truth, [Cm] there really never was one.
All the lonely [Dm] people, [Bb] [Ab] we're doomed now.
[Dm] I [Bb] [F] can tell you in one [Cm] word.
All the [D] lonely [Bb] [Fm] people, [Cm] we're doomed now.
[Fm] So let's take a look, [Abm] shall we?
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC.
And
we say we're a Christian country.
But we've lost contact [Bbm] with our history.
We [F] used to
[Ab] worship God as a mother.
[D] We're suffering from post [Bb]-traumatic [Ab] stress [F] disorder.
Look at all
[Eb] our old [Ab] men in the [Bb] pubs.
Look at all [Eb] our young people on drugs.
[Fm] We used to worship [Eb] God as
a mother.
[D] [Bb] Now look at what we're doing [Ab] to each [B] other.
We've even made killers of ourselves.
The most childlike trusting people in the [F] universe.
And this is what's wrong [Cm] with us.
[D] Our history books, [Bb] parents think it's live [F] wood.
I see the Irish [Cm] as a [D] race like a child
that got [Bb] herself [F] back to the place.
And if there ever is going [Eb] to be healing, [D] there has
to be [Bb] remembering and then [Fm] grieving so that the then can be [Eb] forgiving.
[D] There has to be
[Bb] knowledge [Fm] and [Cm] understanding.
All the [Dm] lonely [Fm] people, [Eb] we're doomed now.
[Dm] [Fm] All [Cm]
the [D] lonely [Bb] [Fm] people, we're doomed now.
[C]
And how do we keep our [F] balance?
[Bb] How do we keep [Cm] our balance?
[Fm] And how do we keep our balance?
[Cm] Forgiveness.
[Bb] [Fm]
Forgiveness.
[Bb] [F] [Cm] [Fm]
Forgiveness.
[Bb] [Fm]
[Bb] [Fm]
[Bb] [Eb] [Fm]
[Gm] [Ab] [Fm]
Forgiveness.
[Bb] [Ab]
[Bb] [Fm]
[Bb] [Fm] Yeah!
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ Okay, I [Ebm] want to talk about Ireland.
[Dm] [Bb] Specifically, I want to talk [Abm] about the famine.
[F] About the
fact [Eb] that there never really was [D] one.
[Bb] There was [Ab] no famine.
[F] See, Irish people were only
[Eb] allowed to eat potatoes.
[D] All [Bb] of the other food, meat, [Fm] fish, vegetables, were shipped
out of the [Ebm] country under armed bar [D] to England while the [Eb] Irish people [Ab] starved.
[F] And then,
[Eb] in the middle of all this, [D] they gave us money not [Bbm] to teach our [Fm] children Irish.
And so, [Eb] we
lost our history.
[D] And this is what I think [Bbm] is still [Ab] hurting me.
[F] You see, we're like a
[Eb] child that's been battered, [D] has to drive itself out [Bb] of its head [Ab] because it's frightened, [F] still
feels all [Ab] the painful feelings.
[D] But they lose [Bb] contact [F] with the memory.
And this leads [B] to
massive self [D]-destruction, [B] alcoholism, drug [F] addiction, all desperate attempts [Eb] at running.
And [Bb] in its worst form, become actual killing.
[F] And [G] if there ever [Eb] is going to be healing,
[D] there has to [Bb] be remembering and then [F] grieving so that the then [Eb] can be forgiving.
[Dm] There has
to [Bb] be knowledge and [Ab] [Cm] understanding. _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] An _ [Ab] _
_ [D] _ [F] _ American army [Eb] regulation [Dm] says you mustn't kill more than [Bb] 10% [F] of a nation because to do so
would cause [Ebm] permanent psychological [D] damage.
It's not [Bbm] permanent, but they [Fm] didn't know that.
Anyway, during [Eb] the supposed famine, [G] we lost a lot more than [Bb] 10% [Ab] of our nation [F] to deaths
on land [Ebm] or on ships of emigration.
[E] What would finally broke us [Bb] is not [F] starvation, no, it's
using the [B] controlling of our [Ab] education.
Schools [B] go on about Black [Fm] 47, on and on [Eb] about the
terrible famine.
[D] But what they don't [Bb] say is in truth, [Cm] there really never was one.
All the lonely [Dm] people, [Bb] _ [Ab] _ we're doomed now.
[Dm] I [Bb] [F] can tell you in one [Cm] word.
All the [D] lonely _ [Bb] _ [Fm] people, [Cm] we're doomed now.
_ [Fm] _ _ _ So let's take a look, [Abm] shall we?
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC.
And
we say we're a Christian country.
But we've lost contact [Bbm] with our history.
We [F] used to
[Ab] worship God as a mother.
[D] We're suffering from post [Bb]-traumatic [Ab] stress [F] disorder.
Look at all
[Eb] our old [Ab] men in the [Bb] pubs.
Look at all [Eb] our young people on drugs.
[Fm] We used to worship [Eb] God as
a mother.
_ [D] [Bb] Now look at what we're doing [Ab] to each [B] other.
We've even made killers of ourselves.
The most childlike trusting people in the [F] universe.
And this is what's wrong [Cm] with us.
[D] Our history books, [Bb] parents think it's live [F] wood.
I see the Irish [Cm] as a [D] race like a child
that got [Bb] herself [F] back to the place.
And if there ever is going [Eb] to be healing, [D] there has
to be [Bb] remembering and then [Fm] grieving so that the then can be [Eb] forgiving.
[D] There has to be
[Bb] knowledge [Fm] and [Cm] understanding. _
All the [Dm] lonely [Fm] _ _ people, [Eb] we're doomed now.
[Dm] _ _ [Fm] _ All [Cm] _
the [D] lonely _ [Bb] [Fm] people, _ we're doomed now.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ And how do we keep our [F] balance? _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ How do we keep [Cm] our balance? _
[Fm] _ _ And how do we keep our balance? _
[Cm] Forgiveness.
[Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
Forgiveness.
[Bb] _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _ [Fm] _ _
Forgiveness.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _
Forgiveness.
[Bb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Fm] Yeah! _ _

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