Christy Moore – Faithful Departed (Guitar)

C                       Am
This graveyard hides a million secrets,

C                       Am
And the trees know more than they can tell.

C                               F 
The ghosts of the saints and the scholars will haunt you,

G               C
In heaven and in hell.

C                               Am
Rattled by the glimmer man, the boogie man, the holy man,

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And livin' in the shadows, in the shadows of a gunman.

C                               F
Rattled like the coppers in your greasy till,

G                       C 
Rattled until time stood still.

C                       Am
Look over your shoulder, hear the school bell ring,

C                       Am
Another day of made-to-measure history.

C                       F
I don't care if your heroes have wings,

G                       C
Your terrible beauty has been torn.

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Faithful departed, we fickle hearted,

F       E       C       G 
As you are now so once were we.

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Faithful departed, we the meek hearted,

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With graces imparting bring flowers to thee.

C                        Am
The girls in the kips proclaim their love for you

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When you stumbled in they knew you had a shilling or two.

C                               F
They cursed you on Sundays and holy days of abstinence,

G                       C
When you all stayed away. 

C                       Am
When you slept there a naked bulb hid your shame,

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Your shadows on the wall, they took all the blame.

C                               F
The Sacred Heart's picture, compassion in his eyes,

G                       C
Drowned out the river of sighs. 

C                        Am
Let the grass grow green over the brewery tonight,

C                               Am
It'll never come between the darkness and the light.

C                               F
There is no pain that can't be eased,

G                       C
By the devil's holy water and the rosary beads.

Am      G          F            G 
Faithful departed, we fickle hearted,

F       E       C       G 
As you are now so once were we.

Am         G        F            G  
Faithful departed, we the meek hearted,

F           E            D               G
With graces imparting bring flowers to thee.

C                       Am
You're a history book I never could write,

C                               Am
Poetry in paralysis, too deep to recite.

C                               F
Dress yourself, bless yourself, you've won the fight,

G                       C
We're gonna celebrate the night.

C                       Am
We'll even climb the pillar like you always meant to,

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Watch the sun rise over the strand.

C                               F
Close your eyes and we'll pretend,

G                       C
It could somehow be the same again.

C                       Am
I'll bury you upright so the sun doesn't blind you.

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You won't have to gaze at the rain and the stars.

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Sleep and dream of chapels and bars,

G                   C
And whiskey in the jar.

Am      G          F                G 
Faithful departed, look what you've started;

F             E                C       G 
An underdog's wounds aren't so easy to mend.

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Faithful departed, there's no broken hearted,

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And no more tristesse in your world without end.