The Ballad of Jim Larkin

Artist: The Dubliners (English)
User: Jay
Duration: 180 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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[Intro]
   C             F       G       C
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[Verse 1]
 C                          F
In Dublin City in nineteen thirteen
              G                      C
The boss was rich and the poor were slaves
           C                    F
The women working and children starving
              G                    C
Then on came Larkin like a mighty wave
             C                         F
The workers cringed when the boss man thundered
         G
Seventy hours was his weekly chore
              C                   F
He asked for little and less was granted
            G                        C
Lest given little then he'd ask for more
 
[Verse 2]
 C                                   F
In the month of August the boss man told us
          G                 C
No union man for him could work
             C                   F
We stood by Larkin and told the boss man
               G                    C
We'd fight or die, but we wouldn't shirk
                 C                          F
Eight months we fought and eight months we starved
             G
We stood by Larkin through thick and thin
              C                       F
But foodless homes and the crying of children
              G                        C
It broke our hearts, we just couldn't win
 
[Verse 3]
 C                              F
Then Larkin left us, we seemed defeated
               G                     C
The night was black for the working man
        C                               F
But on came Connolly with new hope and counsel
           G                   C
His motto was that we'd rise again
             C                 F
In nineteen sixteen in Dublin City
             G
The English soldiers they burnt our town
             C                          F
The shelled our buildings and shot our leaders
              G                        C
The Harp was buried 'neath the bloody crown
 
[Verse 4]
             C                      F
They shot McDermott and Pearse and Plunkett
             G                     C
They shot McDonagh and Clarke the brave
             C                            F
From bleak Kilmainham they took Ceannt's body
           G                    C
To Arbour Hill and a quicklime grave
             C                F
But last of all of the seven heroes
            G
I sing the praise of James Connolly
              C                     F
The voice of justice, the voice of freedom
             G                       C
He gave his life, that man might be free
 
[Outro]
    C             F       G       C

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