Flogging Molly – To Youth My Sweet Roisin Dubh (Ukulele)

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Tell me why must a man be of service

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To his lord and the god seldom high

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From the grave spring the name of our fathers

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But there's no glint in a dead man's eye

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Tell me why are our fields filled with hunger

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And fruitless the crop bitter soil

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So I say my farewell to a nation

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As the leaf waves goodbye to it's son

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So it's to youth I sing you this story

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And it's of youth I sing it now

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Like the train that derails without warning

       Dm                      G
I must leave what I left far behind

       F               G
So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh

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I say goodbye

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Tell me why must our peace be this puzzle

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That fractures the land, splinters war

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The last nails cite the shame in our coffin

           F           Dm      G
But in the end we must all die alone

           F                     C
So it's to youth I sing you this story

            F               C
And it's of youth I sing it now

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Like the train that derails without warning

       Dm                      G
I must leave what I left far behind

       F               G
So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh

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I say goodbye

        G
And the bark fell from tree

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To the ground that they'll bleed

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On the anguish that never learned to shout

         G
With the clash of the drum

      F             C
We'll surrender the gun

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and on this sadness we shall no longer speak

      F                     C
Until time can live on our all forgotten songs

            F                   G
That's when I and we will sing again

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So goodbye to my love, my sweet Roisin Dubh

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Goodbye now until we meet again

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Tell me why must our grief still be greiving

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For a language that never spoke it's loss

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But this tongue speak with fire will tear down the barb wire

    N.F.
And Rip the belly from the waxy ghost

           F                     C
So it's to youth I sing you this story

            F               C
And it's of youth I sing it now

         F                          C
Like the train that derails without warning

       Dm                      G
I must leave what I left far behind

           F                     C
So it's to youth I sing you this story

            F               C
And it's of youth I sing it now

         F                          C
Like the train that derails without warning

       Dm                      G
I must leave what I left far behind

       F               G
So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh

      C  F  C  F
I say goodbye

      F                G
So goodbye, sweet Roisin Dubh

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I say goodbye

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Until we meet again

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Until we meet again

C
Then she arrives to beautify

                     G
But slumber now must rest

      C
Oh my Roisin Dubh

      F
I'll forever love

    C         G      C
The youth you once possessed