Chords for Thin Lizzy - Fool's Gold

[Bbm] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Gb] In the year of the famine, _ [Db] when starvation and black death raged across the land,
[Ebm] _ _ there were [Gb] many driven by the hunger to set sail for the [Bb] Americas, _ _ _
_ [Ebm] _ [Db] in search of a new life and [Ab] a new hope.
_ _ [Bb] Oh, but there were some that couldn't [Ebm] cope, _
_ [Ab] [Gb] and they spent their life [Bbm] in search of fools' gold.
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_ [Ab] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
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The [Ab] old [C] prospector, he [Ab] makes it to [Bb] the falling highway,
[Eb]
his [Ab] old [Cm] compadre, he lays [Gm] dead in the [Eb] sand.
[Ab] With outstretched [C] hands he [Fm] cries, he'll go in [Eb] my way,
[Ab] the people [Cm] pacified didn't [Bb] seem to understand.
[Eb] [Ab] Fool's gold, [Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] fool's _ [Gm] gold, [Fm] _ _ [Eb]
broken [Ab] gold, _ [Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] fool's [Eb] gold.
[Dm] _ [Eb] _ _ _
[Ab] Broken gold would [Cm] just lie in an [Bb] egg [Eb] gutter,
[Ab] sky as low [C] as [Gm] any man can _ [Eb]
be.
He [Ab] calls for [Cm] wine, but they'll only [Fm] serve him [Eb] water,
the [Ab] bartender says we [C] don't [Ab] sell [Bb] sympathy.
_ [Eb]
He [Ab] tells a strange [Cm] story about his [Bb] father,
_ [Eb] _
[Ab] Sunday morning [C] they go down to [Gm] the church on the [Eb] corner,
[Ab] it's time for [Cm] the older and [Fm] the younger,
[Eb] _
[Ab] it is his [C] wish to [Bb] search no longer.
[Eb] _
[Ab] Fool's gold, [Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] fool's gold, [Gm] _ [Fm] broken gold, _
[Ebm] _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] fool's _ [Ab] _ gold.
[Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] Hey!
_ [Ab] _ [Cm] Who _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
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_ [Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
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[Ab] was love?
[Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] Who was love?
[Gm] _ [Fm] _ _
[Eb] Who [Ab] was love?
[Gm] _ [Fm] _ [Eb] _
Who [Ab] was [Gm] love?
[Fm] _ _
[Eb] Who was love?
The [Ab] vulture sits [Cm] on top of the big [Bb] top circus [Eb] arena
[Ab] Seen the show [C] before knows [Gm] someone's gonna [Eb] fall
[Ab] Just in the [C] pod with a [Fm] beautiful dancing [Eb] tightrope [Ab] ballerina
[C] Forgets the safety [Bb] net, just let it [Eb] off
[Ab] Down he [Cm] swoops [Bb] with claws, claws [Eb] to take her
[Ab] Raise her [C] sharp, so [Gm] savage is she, [Eb] ma
_ [Ab] Oh, [Cm] my, there's [Fm] no one who [Eb] can save her
[Ab] Can't stand [C] the fact, [Bb] defender of the flaws
[Eb] [Ab] Who was [Gm] love?
[Fm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] Who was [Gm] love?
[Fm] _ _
[Eb] Who [Ab] was _ [Eb] [Fm] love?
Who [Eb]
was [Ab] love?
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