Tom: G
Introdução:
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I have travelled many lands and I still don?t understand
C Am D
how sad you have become on my return.
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Your old heart is filled with care, sad and old they left you there,
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your once wiped eyes with sorrow, softly burn.
C Am G
I can even sense the change in the sound of children?s games
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and the dreams of youths' ambitions have all turned to death and fear.
C Am G
It?s an age of wealth I?m told, but I?ve never felt so old,
Am D G
as I recall old Dublin in my tears.
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All the faces that I meet as I roam each one way street
C Am D
reflect the empty statements of the times.
G
And the old cathedral bell can?t be heard above the swell
Am D G
for the years erase the message in her chimes.
C Am G
All my childhood friends are gone, like the street where we were born,
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and the time that it has taken doesn?t seem so many years.
C Am G
They have faded in the gloom with ?Sap' Kelly of the Crew,
Am D G
just a ghost of dear old Dublin in my tears.
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There were times when jobs were few, there were hungry days we knew,
C Am D
some days so bad their memory I?ve cursed.
G
And the prayer I said to God, there onboard the 'Princess Maud'
Am D G
that our children would restore a pride we lost.
C Am G
But their past they all forsake, as they're dancing at her wake,
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while the heart of Dublin?s dying, nobody really cares.
C Am G
And the fools, as they pass by, laugh to see an old man cry,
Am D G
oh, I can?t forget old Dublin in my tears.
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Gather round brave men and true, though our numbers they be few,
C Am D
we?ll drink one toast before I cross the foam.
G
For soon in London?s dark domain, I?ll recall how I became,
Am D G
no more a stranger there than here at home.
C Am G
Now the Liffey flows along and I listen to her song
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'till the voice of young James Larkin seems to echo in my ears.
C Am G
But it's just the rafters ring, to it?s requiem I sing,
Am D G
farewell to dear old Dublin in my tears.
Am D G
Farewell to dear old Dublin in my tears.