Christy Moore – If I Get An Encore (Guitar)

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I go home feeling like a king

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Oh, I love to hear the bell rung,

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but most of all I love to hear you sing.

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When I first heard Tommy Makem

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and the Clancy's my future it was sealed

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I was bitten by the ballad bug and since then the wound has never healed

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When I got my first guitar my fingers bled until I learned a chord or two

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I pulled on my aran sweater,

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wrote my Ma a goodbye letter

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And started throwing shapes in O'Donoghue's

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If I got an encore

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Id go home feeling like a king

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Oh I love to here the bell rung

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But most of all I love to hear you sing

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I played cabaret in Bundoran,

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marquees for Father Horan

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And I once stood in for Johnny McEvoy

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From Berlin to San Francisco

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I've gone on before the disco

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Of the four green fields of Athenry

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From the rising sun in browns town

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To the blue lagoon in slago town

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A balle murphy and the bug side

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About an emote and once n balmus slow

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If I get an encore

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I go home feeling like a king

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Oh I love to hear the banjo

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but most of all I love it when you sing

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oh I never met bob Dylan

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but I sang with the picker don

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me and pecker we went looking for lockdown

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one winters night in London up around Wilson junction

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oh, me heart it filled with joy

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twas the night that Maggie berry

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she called me up to sing the wild colonial boy

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there was a wild colonial boy

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jack govern was his name

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he was born and bred in Ireland in a place called castle lane he was his father's only son

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his mother's pride n joy

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and der e dent his parents loved the wild colonial boy

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 if I get an encore

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I go home feeling like a king

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Oh I love to hear the bell rung

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But most of all I love to hear you sing