Verse
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Matty walked out on a frozen night
D A
Making for the pub, shoulders hunched up tight
D A
Head down on the railroad track
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And his old cow Delia sad lowing him back
A
He met with a dark and staggering man
D A
And as he passed him by shouted back at him
D A
"Hey Matty, can't you see what's become of me
E A
In this country of the blind!
E A
The house I have left is dead to me
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To my rhyming and my poetry
D
All I've got is the beat of the stagger
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Heading down the Curragh line!"
[Verse 2]
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But Matty passed on as quick as he could
D A
He couldn't stand such a drunken man sober
D A
All he wanted was the lights of the bar
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The Nightingale, the Wild Rover
E A
When he came in they were sighing
A
"Look who's back, Did they throw you out of Jack's
A
With your spoutin' and your swearin'
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We don't want to hear about Bunker Hayden
D E A
But maybe you'll sing us the Girls of Kinkane"
[Instrumental]
A D A D A E A
[Verse 3]
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The Fear an Tí eyed him steadily
D A
As he handed him a pint of porter
D A
"You must have seen the bishop's ghost tonight
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To put the dry look back in your eye!"
A
But Matty would not be taken in
D A
By their jibin' and their regalin'
D A
He found himself a fresh-blown crew
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And fell in with their sportin' and their balin'
[Verse 4]
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As he was going home, on the very same spot
E A
He met with his dark familiar
D
He seen him coming back down the line
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He was bright and strange and fine
A
As he passed him by, Matty threw out his arms
D A
Trying to grab hold of his likeness
D A
In the morning all the found was his frozen corpse
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At the butt of the Curragh line
E A
At the wake they were lashing out the drops of brandy
A
The aul-fashioned habit
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In the church they were lashing down pounds and fivers
D E A
So Matty would be fine in the old by and by
- 1. Chord Gitar Christy Moore - Matty Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Christy Moore - Matty Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan