Chords for The City of Chicago

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_ [Am] _ [E] In _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [G] _ [D] the city [Em] of Chicago, _ _ [G] _ [D] as the evening [A] shadows fall,
_ [C] _ [D] There a [Em] people dream _ [C] of [D] the hails of [Am]
Donnegah.
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1847 [D] was the year it [Em] all began.
[Am]
Deadly pains of hunger [A] threw over a million [E] from the land. _
[Em] They journeyed [C] not for glory, [D] their motive [Em] wasn't greed,
A voyage of survival [D] across the [C] stormy sea.
_ _ [G] _ [D] To the city [Em] of Chicago, _ _ [G] _ [D] as the evening [A] shadows fall,
_ _ [C] _ [D] There a [Em] people dream of [C] _ [D] the hails of [Am] Donnegah.
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Some of them knew fortune, [D] and some of [Em] them knew fame,
[Am]
More of them knew hardship [D] died upon [Em] the plain. _
[Am] They spread throughout [C] the nation, [D] they rode the [Em] railroad cars,
[Am] Brought their songs [Em] and music [D] to ease their [C] lonely hearts.
_ _ [G] To [D] the city of [Em] Chicago, _ _ _ [G] as [D] the evening [A] shadows fall,
_ [C] There [D] a [Em] people dream _ [C] of [D] the hails of [Am] Donnegah.
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