Chords for There Were Roses

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My song for you this evening
_ [E] It's not [B] to make you sad _
Not for adding to [F#] the sorrows [E] of our [B] troubled Northern land _
But lately I've been thinking [E] and it just [D#m] won't leave [B] my mind _
I tell you of [F#] two friends one time [G#] who were both good [B] friends of mine _
_ Now Isaac he was Protestant [E] and Sean [B] was Catholic born _
But it never _ [F#] made a difference _
[E] For the [F#] friendship it [B] was strong and sometimes in the evening _
[E] When we heard [F#] the sound [B] of drums
We said it won't [F#] divide us.
[E] We will [F#] always be [B] as one _
_ _ _ There [E] were _ _ [G#m] Roses
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Roses
[D#m] _ _ _ [E] There were _ _
_ [B] roses
_ _ And _ the tears [D#m] of a people [E] ran together _ _ _ _
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[B] It was on a Sunday morning _ [E] when the [F#] awful news [B] came rime
_ Another _ [F#] killing had been done [E] just [F#] outside your [B] time _
We knew that Isaac danced up there [C#m] we knew [F#] he liked [B] the band _
But when we heard [F#] that he was dead, [E] we just could [F#] not [B] understand _ _
The fear it filled the countryside.
[E] There was fear [F#] in [B] every home _
when late at night [F#] a car came [E] prowling round [B] the Ryan Road
_ Catholic would be killed [E] tonight to [F#] even up [B] the score.
Oh
Christ, it's young
[F#] McDonald they [E] have taken [F#] from [B] the door
There [E] were _ roses
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_ [E] _ _ _ [D#m] Roses _ there [E] were roses
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And _ _ the tears of a people _ [E] ran together _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] As it was my friend he cried [E] he begged [F#] them with [B] his tears
_ but centuries [F#] of hatred
_ [E] How the years [F#] I do [B] not hear _ a knife
_ It _ [E] was all [F#] that filled [B] their minds and another eye [F#] for another eye
[E] Till [F#] everyone [B] is blind
_ _ I don't know where the moral is or where the song should end
_ But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
_ And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
_ It's God and young [F#] McDonald _ and the likes of you _ _ _ There _ _ [E] were
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[E] Roses
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There [E] were _ [B] roses _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And the tears of the people _ [E] ran together _
_ _ _ There were _ roses
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_ [B] Roses _ _ _ _ _ Roses _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Roses _ Roses Roses [E] Ran together _ _ _ _ _
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