The Tuam Beat Chords by Christy Moore

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[Dm] Once upon a golden _ age, _ _ singing songs was all the rage.
_ _ Songs for glory, songs for fun, _ _ sad songs in the native _ tongue. _ _
_ [F] _ Upon me Solomon, there'd be forty [G] verses, note [Gm] for note.
_ [C] Here's a song to [F] set you free from all [Gm] that old history.
We got [C] the chumby [F] goose, sugar [C] sugar and the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mother?
_ [C] _ The chumby [F] goose, _ shimmy [C] shammy and the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mommy?
[F] Singing the [C] song, singing the [G] song, singing the [C] same old song. _ _ _ _
_ _ Stall or sham, [F] you're only spoofing, you're [C] huffing and you're puffing and you're [G] blowing the [C] roof.
_ I've got [F] the electric guitar [C] with the pick up [G] and the tremolo bar.
I [C] got the _ chumby [F] goose, sugar sugar and the [C] heart speaks, [G] and how's your mother?
[C] _ The chumby [F] goose, shimmy shammy and [C] the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mommy?
[F] Singing the [C] song, singing the [G] song, singing the same [C] old _ _ song. _
_ I've the working, [F] working, working [C] mania wide to [G] pad the Talties plan.
[C] To buy us some girls [F] to whist and shout, [C] to have a bit of fun, to dance about.
Did the chumby [F] goose, sugar sugar [C] and the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mother?
[C] _ The chumby [F] goose, shimmy shammy [C] and the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mommy?
[F] Singing the [C] song, singing the [G] song, singing the same [C] old song.
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_ [C] It's the quarter to eleven [F] and off we go, [C] down to Palace, [G] not too [C] slow.
_ Heaven's [F] all across the sky, [C] I declare to God, [G] I must reply.
[C] Did the chumby [F] goose, sugar sugar [C] and the heart speaks, and [G] how's your mother?
[C] _ The chumby [F] goose, shimmy shammy [C] and the heart speaks, [G] and how's your [F] mommy?
Singing [C] the song, singing the [G] song, singing the same [C] old song. _ _
_ Ah, the tinker [F] in the pavisham, [C] _ fair play to the travelling man.
His wheel broke, [F] he settled down, [C] he brings beauty [G] to the town.
He [C] got the _ chumby [F] goose, sugar [C] sugar and the heart speaks, and [G] how's your [C] mother?
_ The chumby goose, [F] _
shimmy [C] shammy and the heart speaks, [G] _ and how's your granny?
[F] Singing the [C] song, singing the [G] song, singing the same [C] old song.
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[C] The chumby [F] goose, sugar sugar and [C] the heart speaks, [G] and how's your mother?
[C] The chumby [F] goose, shimmy shammy [C] and the heart [G] speaks, and how's your mommy?
[F] Singing the song, [C] singing the [G] song, singing the same old song.
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