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