{"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":2354553,"song":"The Connemara Fox","artist":"The Waterboys","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11487276-the-connemara-fox-chords-by-the-waterboys/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2354553?type=chord","rating":0.16425,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]E6[/ch] x4\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]E6[/ch]\r\nThere's a man on the run[/tab]\r\n\r\nAnd he's never been caught\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]E7[/ch] [ch]E6[/ch]\r\nHe moves at the speed[/tab]\r\n\r\nOf the power of thought\r\n[tab]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd he carries the news[/tab]\r\n\r\nIn a gleam of his eye\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat what you've been told[/tab]\r\n\r\nIs a kind of a lie\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHis enemies number fallen priests[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMen of power and the crooked police[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nCynics from the skool of hard knocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd a motley crowd of mis-matched other old crocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E7[/ch]\r\nWho're never ever gonna catch[/tab]\r\n\r\nThe Connemara Fox\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey chased him in Cong[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey missed him in Maam[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe was already gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNever giving a damn[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWanted dead or alive[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nUp the back of of Dog's Bay[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBut by the time they arrived[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe was leagues away[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn an oyster bar playing dominoes[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the only clues he left his foes[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWere a fistful of dust, a change of the locks[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe words of a Kris Kristoffersen song, a pair of old socks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd graffiti saying so long, suckers[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLove, the Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe was in Bunnahown[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOn the day of the fair[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWhen ship-like clouds[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSailed the summer air[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd a bodhran thumped[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd a saxophone played[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAs the people jumped[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd danced at the side of the bay[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey say he had long elegant fingers[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd when he was gone magic lingered[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA bolt of love that stopped the clocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFrom the village lane where the washing hung to the city blocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe name on every tongue[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWas the Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe left a diktat[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOn the priest's window sill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIt said \"Crough Paaaatrick, Sonny[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIs the paganest hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn the whole lump of Ireland[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt shone with green light[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThat's why they buried its power[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nUnder Christian rites[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd that bogus name to which it never belonged[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat you can't even rhyme in a spell or a song[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou're trying to put life back into the box\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the priest ran out with a scream in the night in his cap and frocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe never even caught sight[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nOf the Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe'll be where there is music[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe'll be where there is crack[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe'll be howling the blues[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nIn the yard out back[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe'll be down in the Claddagh[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nPlayin' pitch and toss[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe says guilt's an imposter, baby[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou been double-crossed[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd just when you think you've got him pegged[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAll you'll see are the backs of his legs[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA shadow passing way over the rocks[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA wisp of hair, a ghostly snatch of the sound of a box[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nNo one's ever gonna catch[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Connemara Fox[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe Connemara Fox[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nE E7 E6 x4\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\nAnd he's never been caught\n\n\nOf the power of thought\n\n\nIn a gleam of his eye\n\n\nIs a kind of a lie\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Connemara Fox\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["E","E7","E6","A","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}