Streets Of Sorrow - Birmingham Six

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***STREETS OF SORROW/BIRMINGHAM SIX - by Terry Woods/Shane MacGowan
from the album "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"
Intro
|Amsus2 |Amsus2 ||
C G C G F Am G F
Oh farewell you streets of sorrow and farewell you streets of pain
C G C G F Am G F
I'll not return to feel more sorrow nor to see more young men slain
C G C G F Am G F
Through the last six years I've lived through terror and in the darkened streets the pain
C G C G F Am G F
Oh how I long to find some solace in my mind I curse the strain
C G C G F Am G F
So farewell you streets of sorrow and farewell you streets of pain
C G C G F Am G F
No I'll not return to feel more sorrow nor to see more young men slain
D A D
There were six men in Birmingham in Guildford there's four
D G A
That were picked up and tortured and framed by the law
D G D G
And the filth got promotion but they're still doing time
G A
For being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time
D A D
In Ireland they'll put you away in the Maze
D G A
In England they'll keep you for several long days
D G D G
God help you if ever you're caught on these shores
G A
And the coppers need someone when they walk through that door
D G A D
You'll be counting years first five then ten, growing old in a lonely hell
D G A D
Round the yard and the lousy cell from wall to wall and back again
D A D
A curse on the judges the coppers and screws
D G A
Who tortured the innocent wrongly accused
D G D G
For the price of promotion and justice to sell
G A
May the judged be their judges when they rot down in hell
D G A D
You'll be counting years first five then ten, growing old in a lonely hell
D G A D
Round the yard and the lousy cell from wall to wall and back again
Inst
C DC DC DC Am
| | | | ||
D A D
May the whores of the empire lie awake in their beds
D G A
And sweat as they count out the sins on their heads
D G D G
While over in Ireland eight more men lie dead
G A
Kicked down and shot in the back of the head
D G A D
You'll be counting years first five then ten, growing old in a freezing hell
D G A D
Round the yard and the lousy cell from wall to wall and back again x2
Outro
C DC DC DC DC DC DC DC Am
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***STREETS OF SORROW/BIRMINGHAM SIX - by Terry Woods/Shane MacGowan
from the album "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"
Intro   
|Amsus2 |Amsus2 ||
Inst    
|C    D|C    D|C    D|C  Am ||
Outro   
|C    D|C    D|C    D|C    D|C    D|C    D|C    D|C  Am ||

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