The Kingston Trio – The Patriot Game (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
G C G D7 G
[Verse 1]
G C G Come all you young rebels D G And list' while we sing D G For the love of one's country C G Is a terrible thing. D G It banishes fear with C G the speed of a flame C G And it makes us all part of D G the patriot game.
[Verse 2]
G C G My name is O'Hanlon, D G And I'm just gone sixteen, D G My home is in Monaghan, C G Where I was weaned, D G I've learned all my life C G Cruel England's to blame, C G And so I'm a part of D G the patriot game.
[Verse 3]
C G This Ireland of ours has D G for long been half free, D G Six counties are under C G John Bull's tyranny, D G So we gave up our boyhoods C G to drill and to train, C G And play our own part in D G the patriot game.
[Verse 4]
(This version lyrics spoken, not sung)
C G It's barely two years since D G they wandered away, D G and it was with the local battalion C G of the bold I.R.A. D G For they'd read of our heroes C G and they wanted the same, C G To play their own part in D G the patriot game.
[Verse 5]
C G And now as I lie here, D G My body all holes, D G I think of those traitors, C G Who bargained in souls, D G I wish that my rifle C G had given the same, C G To those quislings who sold out D G the patriot game.