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	Em	C	G
	I was just about	nineteen

	C	D	G
When I	landed	on their s	hore

	D	Bm7
With my eyes big as	headlights

	C	D	C
Like the thousands and	thousands who	came bef	ore

	G
I was going to be	something

	Bm7	C	D	G
I	smiled at the	man scrutin	ising my	face

	D	Em	A	Em	A
As I	stepped down off the	gangway

Came down to their city

Where I worked for many's the year

Built a hundred houses

Must've pulled half a million pints of beer

Living under suspicion

Putting up with the hatred and fear in their eyes

You can see that your nothing but a murderer

In their eyes, we're nothing but a bunch of murderers

Chorus

	Em	C	G	C	D	G
	Hey J	ohnny, can't	wait 'til Saturday	nigh	t

	D	Bm7
Got a thirst that's	raging

	C	D	C
Know a place where	we can	put that	right

	G	Bm7
Wash away the	confusion

	C	D
Hose down this	fire ins	ide

	G
But	look out!

	D	Em
I'll	tear you into pieces if you	cross me

I'm sick of watching them break up

Every time some bird brain puts us down

Making jokes on the radio

Guess it helps them all drown out the sound

Of the crumbling foundations

Any fool can see the writing on the wall

But they just don't believe that it's happening

There's a crowd says I'm alright

Say they like my turn of phrase

Take me round to their parties

Like some dressed up monkey in a cage

And I play my accordian

Oh, but when the wine seeps through the facade

It's nothing but the same old story

Nothing but the same old story

Chorus

Got a brother in Boston

Says he'll send me on the fare

Just wrote me a letter

Making out that he's cleaning up out there

Two cars in the driveway

Summer house way down on the Cape

And I know that he's fix me up in the morning

I've been thinking about it

But it seems so far to go

People say in the winter

You'd get lost underneath the snow

And there's this girl from my home place

We've been planning to move back and give it a try

So I never got around to going

That's why I never got around to going

Chorus

Wow! Now there are TWO Paul Brady songs out there! From the 1981 album

"Hard Station" (Mercury #834 696-2. sell your car, fly to Dublin, buy it!)

but also on the US-available 1992 compilation "Songs and Crazy Dreams"

(Fontana #314 512 397-2). This song is about the Irish experience in

England.I play it as described, although playing with the record requires a

capo on the 2nd fret.

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