Chords for Wolfe Tones - The Men Behind The Wire

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[D] _ Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns came [D] to take away our sons, but every man [G] must stand
[D] behind the men behind the wire.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns [D] came to take away our
sons, but every man [G] must stand behind [D] the men [A] behind [D] the wire.
Through the little [A] streets [D] of Belfast in the [G] dark of [A] early [D] morn, British [A] soldiers came
a [D]-running, wrecking little homes with scorn.
Heedless of [G] the crying children [D] dragging fathers
from [A] the bed, [D] watched the scenes [A] of helpless [D] mothers, watched the bullet fall from the
head.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns [D] came to take away our sons, but every man [G] must
stand behind [D] the men [A] behind [D] the wire.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns came to [D] take away
our sons, but every man [G] must stand behind [D] the men behind the wire.
Not for them [A] a judge or [D] jury or indeed [G] a [A] crime at all, [D] being [A] Irish means the guilty, [D] so the
guilty one and all.
Round the [G] world the truth will [D] echo, from Welsh men are here again,
England's [A] name again is [D] studied in the eyes of honest men.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns came to [D] take away our sons, but every man [G] must stand
behind [D] the men behind the wire.
Armoured cars and tights and guns came to take away
our sons, but every man [G] must stand behind [D] the men behind the wire.
Proudly march [A] behind our [D] banner, fear me stand behind our men, we will have [A] them feed to
help [D] us build a nation once again.
And the [G] people step together, [D] proudly [G] marching on
[A] your way, [D] never fear [A] or never falter, [D] till the boys come home to stay.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns [D] came to take away our sons, but every man [G] must stand
behind [D] the men behind the wire.
Armoured cars and tights and guns came to take
away our sons, but every man [G] must stand [D] behind the men behind the wire.
Through the little [A] streets of [D] Belfast in the dark of [A] early [D] morn, British [A] soldiers came
a-running, [D] wrecking little homes with scorn.
Heedless of [G] the crying children [D] dragging fathers
from the bed, watched the scenes [A] of selfless [D] mothers, watched the blood flow from their
head.
Armoured cars and tights and [A] guns came to
[D] take away our sons, but every man [G] must stand behind [D] the men behind the wire.
Armoured cars and tights and guns came to take away our sons, but every man [G] must stand
behind [D] the men behind the wire. _ _ _ _ _ _ _