Christy Moore - Smoke And Strong Whiskey guitar tab

C G C G C G C G

D G

Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers

C G

Whose husbands and fathers alike

D C

Drink black beer in the same public houses

C D G

Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey

C G

D G

Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes

C G

Lectures from priests, living in hope

D C

They've not mistaken the brand of their coats

C D G

Paid for by their spiritual teachings

C G

D G

A busy year this, the streets running red

C G

How many sent to a nuptial bed

D C

And how many sent home to a winter of graves

C D G

And how many wait in for the slaughter

C G

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be

Em Am Em Am

D G

It's Easter again and we cannot forget

C G

Brothers and sisters and all that was said

D C

So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet

C D G

But the eyes of the world are upon you

C G

D G

God in his mercy has given us men

C G

To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end

D C

To the profits that pay off the lease on the land

C D G

We still send them over the water

C G

D G

Seventeen years and Kelly's a man

C G

Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand

D C

He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band

C D G

While the enemy waits with an army

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be

Em Am Em Am

D G

Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire

C G

Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss

D C

Of the green to the blue while the media feeds

C D G

On the blood and the pain and the hatred

C G

D G

Father walks home on the colourless night

C G

And the organisation has blinded his sight

D G

His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight

C D

In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see

G C D

Oh the holy ground

C D

The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be

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