Christy Moore – The Peoples Own Mp (Guitar)

Capo 4
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[Verse 1]
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How many more must die now how many must we lose

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Before the island people their own destiny can choose

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From immortal Robert Emmet to Bobby Sands MP

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Who was given thirty thousand votes while in captivity
[Verse 2]
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No more he’ll hear the lark’s sweet song upon the Ulster air

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Or gaze upon the snowflake pure to calm his deep despair

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Before he went on hunger strike young Bobby did compose

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The Rhythm of Time, The Weeping Wind and The Sleeping Rose
[Chorus]
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He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously

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And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity
[Verse 3]
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Thomas Ashe gave everything in 1917

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The Lord Mayor of Cork McSwiney died his freedom to obtain

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Never a one of all our dead died more courageously

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Than Bobby Sands from Twinbrook the people’s own MP
[Verse 4]
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Forever we’ll remember him that man who died in vain

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That his country north and south be united once again

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To mourn him is to organise and build a movement strong

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With ballot box and armalite with music and with song
[Chorus]
C                    G                      D
He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously

     G                           C          G     D   G
And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity

C                    G                      D
He was a poet and a soldier he died courageously

     G                           C          G     D   G
And we gave him thirty thousand votes while in captivity