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DO SOL DO SOL DO SOL DO SOL
RE SOL
Kids wear white garters and smell like their mothers
DO SOL
Whose husbands and fathers alike
RE DO
Drink black beer in the same public houses
DO RE SOL
Smelling of smoke and strong whiskey
DO SOL
RE SOL
Mammies and daddies and skipping ropes
DO SOL
Lectures from priests, living in hope
RE DO
They've not mistaken the brand of their coats
DO RE SOL
Paid for by their spiritual teachings
DO SOL
RE SOL
A busy year this, the streets running red
DO SOL
How many sent to a nuptial bed
RE DO
And how many sent home to a winter of graves
DO RE SOL
And how many wait in for the slaughter
DO SOL
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
MIm LAm MIm LAm
RE SOL
It's Easter again and we cannot forget
DO SOL
Brothers and sisters and all that was said
RE DO
So practice your pipes, stand proud in the wet
DO RE SOL
But the eyes of the world are upon you
DO SOL
RE SOL
God in his mercy has given us men
DO SOL
To lead us to peace but they can't bring an end
RE DO
To the profits that pay off the lease on the land
DO RE SOL
We still send them over the water
DO SOL
RE SOL
Seventeen years and Kelly's a man
DO SOL
Who stands on the street with a gun in his hand
RE DO
He's Protecting the pipers that play in the band
DO RE SOL
While the enemy waits with an army
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
MIm LAm MIm LAm
RE SOL
Dia le hEireann, suckle the empire
DO SOL
Dia le hEireann, suffer the loss
RE DO
Of the green to the blue while the media feeds
DO RE SOL
On the blood and the pain and the hatred
DO SOL
RE SOL
Father walks home on the colourless night
DO SOL
And the organisation has blinded his sight
RE SOL
His wife and his kids are sleeping tonight
DO RE
In the arms of sweet Jesus and Mary
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
Ceud mile failte, there's saints and there's scholars to see
SOL DO RE
Oh the holy ground
DO RE
The far away hills ain't as green as they once used to be
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