The House Of Orange Chords by Stan Rogers

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_ [C] _ [D] I took back [C] my hand and [Bb] I showed him [F] the door _ _
No dollar [D] of mine [C] _
_ [Gm] to live this day
[Bb] _ _ [F] For fueling [D] the engine [Bb] of a bloody cruel [F] _ war
In _ [Gm]
my forefather's [D] home far [C] away
_ _ Who [Dm] fled the [C] first famine [Bb]
wearing all that [F] they owned
_ _ Were called _
[D] navigators [Cm] all ragged [Gm]
and torn
[Bb] _ And [F] built the grand [Dm] trunk [Bb] here and found a [F] new home
_ _ [Bb] [D] Wherever _ [C] their children [F] were _ born _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [D] Their sons have [C] no politics [Bb] none can [F] _ recall _ _ _
_ Allegiance [D] from long _
[C] generations [D] _ [Gm] _ before
[Bb] _ _ [F] Oh, this [D] oil, that name [Bb] can't matter [F] at all _
[Gm] Or be cause [D] enough for [C] to war
And _ [D] meanwhile [C] my babies [Bb] are safe in [F] their homes
_ _ _ Unlike their [D] pale cousins [C] who cower [Gm] and cry
[Bb] _ _
[F] While _ [D] kneecappers nail their [Bb] poor dads to [F] the floor
_ _ And [D]
teach them [C] to hate [F] and to die
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [Dm] It's those cruel [C] _ beggars [Bb] who spurn the [F] fair _ coin
_ The peace for [Dm] their kids they [Cm] could [Gm] take at their will
_ [Bb] _ Since [F] the day old [Dm] King Billy [Bb] _
prevailed at [F] the boy _
_ _ [Gm] They've bombed and [Dm] they've maimed and [C] they've killed _
_ Now they [Dm] cry out [C] for money [Bb] and wail [F] at the door
_ But home rule or [Dm] republic [C] is [Gm] all of it shame
[Bb] _ _ [F] And a curse for [Dm] us here who [Bb] want nothing [F] of _ war
[Dm] We're kindred [C] in nothing [F] but _ _ _ _
[Dm] name
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[F] _ _ [Dm] All _ _
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[F] _ _ _ rights _
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_ _ _ [Dm] _ and [C] all wrongs have long [Bb] since blown [F] _ away
For _ _ causes [D] are [Gm] ashes [Cm] where children [Gm] lie _ [Bb] slain
Yet [F] the damned _
[D] UDL [Bb] and the cruel [F] IRA
_ _ _ Will [Gm] tomorrow [D] go murdering [C] _ again
_ But [Dm] no penny [C] of mine will [Bb] I add to [F] the fray
_ _ _ _ Remember [Dm] the boy and they [C] will cry [Gm]
out in [Bb] vain
For [F] I've given [Dm] my heart [Bb] to the place I [F] was born
_ And [Gm] forgive her _ [Dm] _ house [C] of _ orange
_ [Dm] King Billy [C] and the whole [F] house of _ _ _ orange _ _
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