Chords for Sinead O'Connor - Irish Ways (live)

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Once upon a time [G] there _ were _ _ _ _ Irish ways and [Cm] Irish law
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_ _ _ Villages [G] of Irish _ _ blood
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Waking [Gm] too, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ waking _ too _
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_ _ _ _ Then the Vikings came [Gm] around _ _ _ _ _
Turned us up and [Cm] turned us down
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] Started building [G] boats and _ _ towns
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They tried to change our _ lives
_ _ Trying to _ change our [C] lives _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ Cromwell and his soldiers _ _ _ came _ _
Started centuries of shame
_ But _ _ _ they could not [Cm] make us [D] turn
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_ [Eb] We are a river _ flowing
_ _ _ We're a river [D] _ [C] flowing _ _ _ _
_ _ Again, _ _ [Gm] again the soldiers [G] came
_ _ Burned _ _ our house and stole our grain
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[G] Choked the farmers in their [Cm] _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ fields
_ [G] Working _ for a living _ _ _ _
Working for _ [C] a _ living
_ _ _ _ _ Eight hundred [G] years we have been down _ _
_ _ The spirit of the water's _ side
Has _ _ _ kept the spirit of the mind
_ _ _ _ _ [N] Above the pain and sadness _ _ _
Above [E] the [G] pain and _ sadness
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ Today the struggle carries _ [G] on _
_ _ I wonder what it took so long
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see the gains being opened [C] _ up
_ _ To the people [Gm] and their freedom
_ _ _ People and _ [Cm] their freedom _
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Once [Db] upon [Gm] a time there were _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Irish ways [G] and [Gm] Irish law _ _ _
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[Gm] Irish blood
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Waking [A] too, _ _ _ waking [Gm] _ _ _ too
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