Chords for The Wolfe Tones - You'll Never Beat the Irish

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[G] _ _ After the siege of Limerick, [C] Patrick Sarisfield won the day.
[D] But the Irish, they were cheated when [G] his army went away.
Queen Anne and her successors [C] forced on us those penal laws,
denying the rights and liberty [D] of religion, land [Em] and [D] property.
[Em] Mother [Bm] Thunder, fuck the party [C] in the main,
Cheat this Keeling, [D] Billy and the [Em] day.
Duck and [D] dive and [Em] fuck the party in the main,
[D] Billy and the [Am] go, [Em] Billy and the day. _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] [G] Then came the three bad Georges [C] and they had us nearly [D] fooled.
They couldn't speak the lingo [G] of the countries that they ruled.
Poppets of ascendancy, [C] they kept the Irish down.
And the rebels and the white wives [D] had their army on the run.
[G] And you never beat the Irish, [C] no matter what you do.
_ [D] You could put us down and keep us out, but we'll come back [G] _
again.
You know we are the fighting Irish, [C] and we fight until the end.
[G] You [D] know you should've known, you'll never beat [G] the Irish.
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_ _ _ _ _ The famine queen [E] Victoria came to rule us [C] by and by.
[D] She was on patrol so bloody [G] long we thought she'd never die.
She presided over hunger, [C] famine, poverty and disease.
She drove the people from the [D] home to their death or [G] two,
to [D] land [Em] beyond the sea.
Mother [D] Thunder, fuck the party [Em] in the main,
Cheat this [Bm] Keeling, Billy and [Em] the day.
Duck and [D] dive and fuck the [C] party in the main,
[Bm] Billy and the go, [Em] Billy and the day. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] All across the 19th century [C] fought oppression with great zeal.
[D] O'Connell spoke his Blarney [G] for emancipation and repeal.
Young Ireland and the Fenians [C] tried dynamite and the gun.
Parnell, the men of 16 [D] died, then Michael Collins had them on the [G] run.
And you never beat the Irish, no [C]
matter what you do.
_ [G] You could [D] put us down and keep us out, but we'll come [G] back again.
You know we are the fighting Irish and we [C]
fight until the end.
You [G] know you [D]
should've known, you'll never beat [G] the Irish.
_ _ [Em] Mother Thunder, [Bm] fuck the [C] party in the main,
Cheat [G] this Keeling, Billy and the day.
Duck and dive [Bm] and fuck the [Em] party in the [F#] main,
Billy and the go, [Em] Billy and the day.
Mother Thunder, [Bm] fuck the [Em] party in the main,
Cheat this Keeling, [G] Billy and the day.
Duck and dive [D] and fuck the [Em] party in the main,
Billy [A] and the [Em] go, Billy [F#] and the day.
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