The Dubliners – I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool (Guitar)

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The Dubliners — I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool [Chorus]
F
Oh I wish I was back in Liverpool

          Eb         F
Liverpool town where I was born

            C               Bb
Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze,

   F
No fields of waving corn

            Bb
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls

       F                   Bb
And the black and tan flows free

             C                   Bb
Where there's six in a bed by the old pier head

         F         Eb       F
And it's Liverpool town for me
[Verse 1]
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'Tis seven long years since I wandered away

             Bb        F
to sail the wild world o'er

     C                 Bb
Me very first trip on an old steam ship

             F
that was bound for Baltimore

        Bb
I was seven days sick and I just couldn't stick

        F          Bb
that bobbin' up and down

        C                     Bb
So I told them "Jack, you'd better turn back

  F          Eb           F
for dear old Liverpool town"
[Chorus]
F
I wish I was back in Liverpool,

          Eb         F
Liverpool town where I was born

             C               Bb
Where there ain't no trees, no scent of grease,

    F
no field's of waving corn

            Bb
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls

       F                   Bb
And the black and tan flows free

             C                   Bb
Where there's six in a bed by the old pier head

         F         Eb       F
And it's Liverpool town for me
[Verse 2]
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We dug the Mersey tunnel, boys,

             Eb      F
way back in thirty-three

        C                   Bb
Dug an hole in the ground until we found

  F
an hold called Wallasey

          Bb
Then the foreman cried "Come on, outside!

F                   Bb
The roof is fallin' down"

           C                     Bb
While I'm tellin' you, Jack, we all swum back

F            Eb        F
to dear old Liverpool town
[Chorus]
F
Oh I wish I was back in Liverpool

          Eb         F
Liverpool town where I was born

            C               Bb
Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze,

   F
No fields of waving corn

            Bb
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls

       F                   Bb
And the black and tan flows free

             C                   Bb
Where there's six in a bed by the old pier head

         F         Eb       F
And it's Liverpool town for me
[Verse 3]
F
There's every race and colour of face,

              Eb       F
there's every kind of name

         C             Bb
But the pigeons on the pier head

      F
they treat you all the same

       Bb
And if you walk up upon Parlament Street

           F              Bb
you'll get faces black and brown

          C                   Bb
And I've also seen the orange-green

F           Eb
in dear old Liverpool town
[Chorus]
F
Oh I wish I was back in Liverpool

          Eb         F
Liverpool town where I was born

            C               Bb
Where there ain't no trees, no scented breeze,

   F
No fields of waving corn

            Bb
But there's lots of girls with peroxide curls

       F                   Bb
And the black and tan flows free

             C                   Bb
Where there's six in a bed by the old pier head

         F         Eb       F
And it's Liverpool town for me