Micheal Collins

Artist: Johnny McEvoy (English)
User: Colin wilson
Duration: 130 seconds
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Michael Collins Chords by Johnny McEvoy
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About this tab version: Tabbed from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AK1HosFCAE.
Difficulty: Absolute Beginner
Tuning: E  A  D  G  B  E 
Last edit: Feb 8, 2021
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[Verse 1]
     G                              C     
On a far off August day, cold young men in
        G 
 ambush lay,
                                      
On a roadside on a hill where flowers 
 D 
grow,
        G                              
So much hate for one so young, who was 
 C                 G 
right and who was wrong,
                            D          
Though a thousand years may pass we'll 
     G 
never know.
 
[Chorus]
        G                                 
Candles dripping blood, they placed beside
      C 
 your shoulders,
       D                            
Rosary beads like teardrops on your 
   G 
fin-gers,
                                         C 
Friends and comrades standin by, in their 
grief they wonder why,
        D                                
Michael in their hour of need you had to 
 G 
go.


 


 
[Verse 2]
          G                            
And when evening twilight came, gentle 
 C               G 
fell the August rain,
                                       
Oh but you lay still and silent on the 
 D 
ground,
      G                                
As we hung our heads in prayer, in our 
 C         G 
sorrow and despair,
                             D            
We wondered was it friend or foe who shot 
    G 
you down,
 
[Chorus]
        G                                 
Candles dripping blood, they placed beside
      C 
 your shoulders,
       D                            
Rosary beads like teardrops on your 
   G 
fin-gers,
                                         C 
Friends and comrades standin by, in their 
grief they wonder why,
        D                                
Michael in their hour of need you had to 
 G 
go.
 
[Instrumental]
G   | C   | C  | G 
 
 
     G                                    
Now the flame that you held high, when you
 C                 G 
 called out to the sky,
                                       
To end this senseless killing and this 
 D 
shame,
        G                            
Has now passed to other hands and is 
 C                   G 
carried through the land
                    D              G 
By some not fit to even speak your name.
 
[Chorus]
        G                                 
Candles dripping blood, they placed beside
      C 
 your shoulders,
       D                            
Rosary beads like teardrops on your 
   G 
fin-gers,
                                         C 
Friends and comrades standin by, in their 
grief they wonder why,
        D                                
Michael in their hour of need you had to 
 G 
go.
 
[Outro]
        D                                 
Michael in their hour of need

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