Misc Traditional – The Reason I Left Mullingar (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
  Em                D      C     G
I walk through this city a stranger,

     F          C          G  D
in a land I can never call home

  Em            D           C      G
I curse the sad notion that caused me

   Em                      D
in search of my fortune to roam.
[Verse 2]
    Em       D           C    G
I'm weary of working and drinking,

       F            C            G D
with a week's wages spent in the bar

    Em         D            C              G
And God it's a shame for to use a friend's name

        Em                     D
just to beg for the price of a jar
[Chorus]
  Em            D      C     G
I remember that bright April morning,

       F            C      G D
when I left home to travel afar

       Em               D            C          G
But to work till you're dead for one room and a bed,

           C        D          G
is not the reason I left Mullingar
[Verse 3]
         Em         D       C    G
Oh, this London's a city of heartbreak,

   F              C              G D
on Friday there's friends by the score,

    Em             D           C   G
but when the pay's finished on Monday,

  Em                       D
a friend's not a friend anymore
[Verse 4]
      Em          D           C  G
Oh, a working day seems never ending,

         F          C               G D
from the shovel and pick there's no break

    Em              D              C   G
But when you're not working you're spending,

    Em                       D
the fortune you left home to make
[Chorus]
  Em            D      C     G
I remember that bright April morning,

       F            C      G D
when I left home to travel afar

       Em               D            C          G
But to work till you're dead for one room and a bed,

           C        D          G
is not the reason I left Mullingar
[Verse 5]
        Em        D              C  G
And for every one here who finds fortune,

    F             C           G D
and comes home to tell of the tale,

     Em          D           C   G
each morning the broadway is crowded

     Em                       D
with many’s the thousands who fail
[Verse 6]
    Em           D             C  G
So, young men of Ireland, take warning,

   F          C          G D
in London you never will find

    Em          D          C   G
the gold at the end of the rainbow,

    Em                      D
you might just have left it behind
[Chorus]
  Em            D      C     G
I remember that bright April morning,

       F            C      G D
when I left home to travel afar

       Em               D            C          G
But to work till you're dead for one room and a bed,

           C        D          G
is not the reason I left Mullingar

           C        D          G
it's not the reason I left Mullingar