{"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":1868702,"song":"Matty","artist":"Christy Moore","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11417672-matty-chords-by-christy-moore/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1868702?type=chord","rating":4.93333,"votes":18,"content":"Matty - Christy Moore\r\nWritten by Johnny Mulhearn\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nMatty walked out on a frozen night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMaking for the pub, shoulders hunched up tight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHead down on the railroad track[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd his old cow Delia sad lowing him back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      \r\nHe met with a dark and staggering man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd as he passed him by shouted back at him[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Hey Matty, can't you see what's become of me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn this country of the blind![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe house I have left is dead to me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo my rhyming and my poetry[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll I've got is the beat of the stagger[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHeading down the Curragh line!\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut Matty passed on as quick as he could[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe couldn't stand such a drunken man sober[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll he wanted was the lights of the bar[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe Nightingale, the Wild Rover[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen he came in they were sighing[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Look who's back, Did they throw you out of Jack's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith your spoutin' and your swearin'[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWe don't want to hear about Bunker Hayden[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut maybe you'll sing us the Girls of Kinkane\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       \r\nThe Fear an Tí eyed him steadily[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs he handed him a pint of porter[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"You must have seen the bishop's ghost tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTo put the dry look back in your eye!\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                      \r\nBut Matty would not be taken in[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy their jibin' and their regalin'[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe found himself a fresh-blown crew[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd fell in with their sportin' and their balin'[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nAs he was going home, on the very same spot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe met with his dark familiar[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]           \r\nHe seen him coming back down the line[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was bright and strange and fine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    \r\nAs he passed him by, Matty threw out his arms[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTrying to grab hold of his likeness[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the morning all the found was his frozen corpse[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt the butt of the Curragh line[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAt the wake they were lashing out the drops of brandy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe aul-fashioned habit[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the church they were lashing down pounds and fivers[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo Matty would be fine in the old by and by[/tab]","plain_text":"Matty - Christy Moore\nWritten by Johnny Mulhearn\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\nG   C G C G D G\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]","chords":["G","C","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}