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Standard Tuning Finger Picking - 1 2+ 3+`
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I took back my hand and I showed him the door,
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No dollar of mine would I part with this day,
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For fueling the engine of a bloody cruel war ,
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In my forefathers' home far a - way.
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Who fled the first Famine wearing all that they
owned,
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Were called Navi - gators, all ragged and torn, and
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Built the Grand Trunk here and found a new home,
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Wher - ever their children were born.
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Their sons have no politics, none can
- call,
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All - egiance from long gener - ations be - fore,
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Oh, this war or that name can't matter at all,
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Or be cause e - nough for to war, and.
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Meanwhile my babies are safe in their homes,
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Un like their Pale cousins who cower and
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cry,
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While knee-cappers nail their poor Dads to the floor, and
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Teach them to hate and to die.
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It's those cruel beggars who spurn the fair coin,
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The Peace for their kids they could take at their will,
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Since the day old King Billy pre - vailed at the Boyne,
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They've bombed and they've maimed and they've killed.
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Now they cry out for money and wail at the door, but
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Home Rule or Re - public, 'tis all of it shame, and
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A curse for us here who want nothing of war,
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We're kindred in nothing but name.
Break: Instrumental - Last 4 lines of verse
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All rights and all wrongs have long since blown a - way,
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For causes are ashes where children lie slain,
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Yet the damned UD - L and the cruel IR - A
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Will to - morrow go murdering a - gain.
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But no penny of mine will I add to the fray.
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"Re - member the Boyne" they will cry out in vain,
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For I've given my heart to the place I was born, and
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For - given the whole House of Orange,
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King Billy and the whole House of Orange.
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