{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":5765891,"song":"My Name Is Ray Mccreesh","artist":"Seán Ó Sirideán","content_type":"tab","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11199854-my-name-is-ray-mccreesh-tab-by-sean-o-siridean/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/5765891?type=tab","rating":0.00154,"votes":0,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI remember from my boyhood,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nDown in south Armagh,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI’d lie beneath that evening sky,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd search for shooting stars.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd often would I wonder,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhat I would grow to be,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut fate would choose a different course.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy name is Ray McCreesh.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhat kind of a system,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWould bring a people to their knees?[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTry and break their spirits,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd rob their dignity?[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith injustice all around me,[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI knew that something must be done.[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo, while others learned indifference,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI learned to hold a gun.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nCaptured and imprisoned,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThrown in a H-Block cell.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor year on the blanket protest,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI served my time in hell.[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nDenied of any status,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey called my cause a crime,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo, on the hunger strike I joined,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo prove their words were lies.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd when my time was nearing,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe Lord took me by the hand.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe said, “Once more I bear witness[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto man’s inhumanity to man.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnother martyr for this country,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnother thorn in my crown.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou’ve done your time upon the cross,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy son, I’ll help you down\".[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf you’re ever up in Camlough,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn my native south Armagh,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf you look upon that evening sky,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd see a shooting star,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust remember that a young boy,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nUsed to dream his young boy dreams.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThink of me when you whisper prayers,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy name is Raymond McCreesh.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]","chords":["C","F","Am","G"]}