Christy Moore – The Old Mans Song (Guitar)
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[Verse 1]
D C A D At the turning of the century I was a lad of five D C A My father went to fight the Boers, he never came back alive D C G My mother had to bring us up no charity did she seek D C A D She rubbed and scrubbed and scraped along on seven-and-six a week
[Verse 2]
D C A D At the age of twelve I left my school and went to get a job D C A With growing kids my ma could do with the extra couple of bob D C G I knew that longer schooling would have stood me better stead D C A D But you can’t afford refinement when you’re struggling for your bread
[Verse 3]
D C A D When the Great War started I did not hesitate D C A I took the royal shilling and went to do my bit D C G We fought in blood and sweat and mud three years or thereabouts D C A D Till I copped some gas in Flanders and was invalided out
[Verse 4]
D C A D When the war was over and we’d settled with the Hun D C A We went back to our civvies we thought the fighting done D C G We thoguht we'd earned our wages but we were out of luck D C A D Soon we found we had to fight for the right to go to work
[Verse 5]
D C A D In ’26 the General Strike found me upon the street D C A By then I had a wife and kids their needs I had to meet D C G The brave new world was coming and the brotherhood of man D C A D But when the strike was over we were back where we began
[Verse 6]
D C A D I struggled through the thirties out of work now and again D C A I saw the Blackshirts marching and the things they did in Spain D C G But I brought me kids up decent showed them wrong from right D C A D But Hitler was the man who came and taught them how to fight
[Verse 7]
D C A D Me daughter was a land girl she got married to a Yank D C A My son he got a medal for stopping one of Rommel’s tanks D C G He was wounded near the end of the war and convalesced in Rome D C A D He got married to an 'eyetie' nurse and never bothered to come home
[Verse 8]
D C A D Me daughter writes me every week a cheerful little note D C A About the coloured telly and the other things she’s got D C G She’s got a son a likely lad he’s just turned twenty-one D C A D Now I hear he’s been called up to fight in Vietnam
[Verse 9]
D C A D Now we’re on the pension and it doesn’t go too far D C A Not much to show for a life that’s been like one long bloody war D C G When I think of all the wasted lives it makes me want to cry D C A D I don’t know how we’ll change things but by Christ we’ll have to try