Chords for Sinéad O'Connor - Irish Ways and Irish Laws

[G] _ _ _ _ [Cm] Once upon a time there _ was [G] _ _ _ _
_ Irish ways and Irish _ _
_ [C] _ _ laws
[G] _ _ _
Villages of Irish blood _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Waking to the _ morning _ _ _
Waking _ [C] to _ the morning _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Then the Vikings came _
[G] round
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Turned us up and turned us _ down _ _
_ _ _ Started [Gbm] building boats and [Gm] towns _ _ _ _
They tried to change our living _
[Cm] _ _ [C] Tried to change our [D] _ [C] _ _ living _ _
_ _ _ _ Cromwell and his soldiers _ _ came
[N] _ _ _
Started centuries of shame
_ _ _ _ _ But they could not make us [C] turn _ _ _
_ _ We are a river _ flowing
_ _ _ We are a _ river _ _ flowing _
_ _ _ _ _ Again and again the soldiers _ [G] came _ _
_ _ [C] Burned our houses, stole our grain _ _ _ _ _
Shot [Gm] the farmers in their _ _ _ _ _ fields
_ Working for a _ living _ _
_ Working for [C] _ _ [E] a _ [D] living _ _ _ _ _
_ Today the struggle carries [G] on
_ _ _ I wonder will I live so _ _ long
_ _ _ To see the [N] gates being opened _ _ _ _ up
To a people and their _ freedom
_ _ A people [Bb] and their _ _ [C] freedom _ _
_ _ Eight hundred years we have been _ [G] damned _ _
The secret of the water's _ _ sand
_ [N] _ _ Has kept the spirit of a _ _ _ man
_ _ Above the pain _ descending
_ _ _ Above the _ pain _ _ descending
[D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] Once [F]
upon a time there _ was _ _
[C] _ _ Irish ways [G] and Irish _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ laws
[E] _
Villages of Irish _ blood _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ Waking to _ the morning _ _ _
_ Waking [Bb] to _ [C] _
the _ morning _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _