Chords for Thin Lizzy - Fool's Gold (Peel Sessions '76)

_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Gb] In the year of the famine, _ [Db] when starvation and black death raged across the land,
_ [Eb] _ _ there were [Gb] many driven by the hunger to set [Bb] sail for the Americas. _ _ _
_ [Db] In search of a new life and a [Ab] new hope.
_ [Bb] Oh, but there were some that couldn't [Eb] cope. _
[Fm] _ [Gb] And they spent [Eb] their life _ [Bbm] in search of food and school.
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[Ab] The old [C] prospector, he makes it [Bb] to the falling [Eb] highway.
[Ab] His old [Cm] comrade, he [G] lays dead in the [Eb] sand.
[Ab] Without his [Cm] hair, he [F] cries, are you [Eb] going my way?
[Ab] The people [C] passing by [Bb] didn't seem to understand.
[Ab] Who will go?
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[Ab] Broken gold, [C] we're just lying [Bb] in a gutter.
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[Ab] Sky was [C] low as any [Gm] man can [Eb] be.
[Ab] He calls the [C] wind, but the lowlands serve him [Eb] water.
The [Ab] bobcat that sells [C] me don't sell [Bb] sympathy.
He [Eb] _
[Ab] tells a strange [Cm] story about [Bb] his father.
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[Ab] Sunday [C] morning, they go down [G] to the dirt on the [Eb] corner.
[Ab] As time [Cm] grows older, his [F] thoughts, they [Eb] grow younger.
[Ab] It is his [C] wish to [Bb] set no longer. _
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[Ab] Who's _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
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[Ab] home?
_ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Eb] The [Ab] posture sits on [C] top of the big [Bb] top circus [Eb] arena.
[Ab] Seen the show [C] before, knows [G] someone's going to [Eb] fall.
[Ab] Just in the [C] pad with a [F] beautiful dancing [Eb] hydro [Ab] ballerina.
[C] Forgets the safety [Bb] net, isn't there at [Eb] all.
[Ab] Now he [C] swoops the [Bb] bars on to [Eb] take a [Ab] waist shot.
[C] So [G] savage is she, ma.
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[Ab] Oh my [C] God, is there [Fm] no one who can [Eb] see her?
[Ab] In steps of [C] wax, [Bb] the thunder of the [Eb] flowers.
[Ab] Who's home?
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