{"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":1745728,"song":"Joe Mcdonnell","artist":"The Wolfe Tones","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11375808-joe-mcdonnell-chords-by-the-wolfe-tones/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1745728?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":63,"content":"[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh me name is Joe McDonnell, from Belfast town I came,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThat city I will never see again.      [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor in the town of Belfast I spent many happy days,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI love that town in oh so many ways.[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor it's there I spent my childhood and found for me a wife,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI then set out to make for her a life.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut all my young ambitions, met with bitterness and hate,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI soon found myself inside a prison gate.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I think of all the deeds that you have done.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou had plundered many nations divided many lands,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you brought this reign of terror, to my land.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough those many months internment in the maidstone and the maze,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI thought about my land throught those days.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhy my country was divided, why I was now in jail,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nImprisoned without crime or without trial.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd though I love my country, I am not a bitter man,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo then one faithful morning I shook bold freedom's hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor right or wrong I'd tried to free my land.[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\nChorus\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I think of all the deeds that you have done.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou had plundered many nations divided many lands,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you brought this reign of terror, to my land.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen one cold October morning, trapped in a lion's den,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI found myself in prison once again.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was committed to the H-Blocks, for 14 years or more,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the blanket, and condition, they were poor.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen a hunger strike we did commence, for the dignity of man,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut it seemed to me that no one gave a dam.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut now I am a saddened man, I watched my comrades die,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIf only people cared or wondered why.[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\nChorus\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd you dare call me a terrorist while you look down your gun,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen I think of all the deeds that you have done.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou had plundered many nations divided many lands,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou had terrorised their people, you ruled with an iron hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you brought this reign of terror, to my land.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMay God shine on you Bobby Sands for the courage you have shown,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMay your glory and your fame be widely known.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh, who died unselfishly,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd Patsy O’Hara and the next in line is me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd those who lie behind me, may your courage be the same,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I pray to God my life is not in vain.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAh but sad and bitter was the year of 1981,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor everything I've lost and nothing's won. 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