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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Cm
I was eighteen years old
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When I went down to Dublin
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Gm
With a fistfull of money
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And a cartload of dreams
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Take your time
Cm
Said me father
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Stop rushing like hell
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Gm
And remember all is not
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What it seems to be
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Gm
For there's fellas would cut ye
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Bb
For the coat on yer back
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Gm
Or the watch that ye got
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From yer mother
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Cm
So take care me young buck-o
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And mind yourself well
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F
And will ye give this wee note
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To me brother
Verse 2
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At the time Uncle Benjy
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Was a policeman in Brooklyn
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And me father the youngest
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Looked after the farm
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Cm
When a phonecall from America
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Eb
Said 'Send the lad over'
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Gm
And the old fella said
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'Sure it wouldn't do any harm'
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For I spent me life working
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This dirty old ground
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F
For a few pints of porter
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And the the smell of a pound
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Cm
And sure maybe there's something
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Eb
You learn loyalty
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Gm
And you can bring it back home
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Eb
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Make it easy on me
Verse 3
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Cm
So I landed at Kennedy
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Eb
And a big yellow taxi
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Gm
Carried me and me bags
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Through the streets and the rain
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Cm
Well me poor heart was thumpin'
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Eb
Around with excitement
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Gm
And I hardly even heard
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What the driver was saying
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Gm
We came in the Shore Parkway
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To the Flatlands in Brooklyn
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Gm
To my Uncles apartment
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On East 53rd
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Cm
I was fellin' so happy
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I was hummin' a song
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F
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And I sang you're as free as a bird'
Verse 4
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Well to shorten the story
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Bb
What I found out that day
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Was that Benjy got shot down
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In an uptown foray
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And while I was flyin'
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Eb
My way to New York
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Gm
Poor Benjy was lying
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In a cold city morgue
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F
Well I phoned up the old fella
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Told him the news
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F
I could tell he could hardly
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Stand up in his shoes
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Cm
And he wept as he told me
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Eb
'Go ahead with the plan'
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Gm
And not to forget
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G
Be a proud Irirshman
Verse 5
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Dm
So I went up to Nellies
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Beside Fordham Road
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Am
And I started to learn
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G
About lifting the load
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Dm
But the heaviest thing
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F
That I carried that year
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Am
Was the bittersweet thoughts
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C
Of my hometown so dear
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Am
I went home that Decem ber
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C
'Cause the old fella died
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Had to borrow the money
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From a fellow on the side
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Dm
And all the bright flowers
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And brass couldn't hide
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G
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The poor wasted face of me father
Verse 6
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I sold up the old farmyard
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C
For what it was worth
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And into me bag
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G
Stuck a handful of earth
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Dm
Then I boarded a train
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And I caught me a plane
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Am
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And I found myself back In the US again
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G
Its been twenty two years
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Since I set foot in Dublin
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G
Me kids know to use
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The correct knife and fork
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Dm
But I'll never forget
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The green grass and the rivers
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Am
As I keep law and order
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On the streets of New York
Outro 1
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Na na na,
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na na na,
Em
Na na na na na,
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na na na
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Na na-na,
Am
na na na,
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G
na na-na na
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Na na na,
Dm
na na na,
Em
na na na na na,
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na na na
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Na na-na,
Am
na na na,
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na na-na na
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