The Dubliners- Scorn Not His Simplicity Chords

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See the child with the golden hair [F] but eyes that show the emptiness [C] inside _ _
[G] Do we know
Can we understand just [C] how he feels or have we really tried? _ _ _
See him now
As he stands [F] alone and watches children play a children's game
_ [G] Simple _ child he looks almost like the others yet they know he's not the same
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Scorn [Fm] not his simplicity [C] but rather [F] try to love him [C] all the more
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Scorn [Fm] not his simplicity.
[G] Oh, no
_ [Em] Oh
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_ _ _ _ _ _ See him stare
Not recognizing that [F] kind face that only yesterday
_ The [G] _ loving _ face of a mother who [C] can't understand what she's been guilty of
_ How she cried
_ Tears of happiness [F] the day the doctor told her it's a boy
_ [G] Now she cries
_ Tears of helplessness [C] and thinks of all the things he can't enjoy
_ _ [Am] _ Scorn [Fm] not his simplicity [C] but rather try to love him all the more
_ _ [Am] _ Scorn not [Fm] his simplicity.
[G] Oh, no _
[Em] Oh
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh
_ Knows how to face the [F] future hopefully surrounded by despair
_ _ [G] He won't ask for your pity or your [C] sympathy but surely you should
_ _ _ [Am] _ Scorn [Fm] not
His simplicity [C] but rather try [F] to love him [C] all the more
_ [Am] Scorn _ _ [Fm] not his simplicity.
[G] Oh, no _
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