Аккорды Christy Moore - The Old Mans Song

[Verse 1]
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At the turning of the century I was a lad of five
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My father went to fight the Boers, he never came back alive
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My mother had to bring us up no charity did she seek
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She rubbed and scrubbed and scraped along on seven-and-six a week

[Verse 2]
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At the age of twelve I left my school and went to get a job
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With growing kids my ma could do with the extra couple of bob
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I knew that longer schooling would have stood me better stead
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But you can’t afford refinement when you’re struggling for your bread

[Verse 3]
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When the Great War started I did not hesitate
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I took the royal shilling and went to do my bit
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We fought in blood and sweat and mud three years or thereabouts
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Till I copped some gas in Flanders and was invalided out

[Verse 4]
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When the war was over and we’d settled with the Hun
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We went back to our civvies we thought the fighting done
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We thoguht we'd earned our wages but we were out of luck
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Soon we found we had to fight for the right to go to work

[Verse 5]
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In ’26 the General Strike found me upon the street
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By then I had a wife and kids their needs I had to meet
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The brave new world was coming and the brotherhood of man
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But when the strike was over we were back where we began

[Verse 6]
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I struggled through the thirties out of work now and again
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I saw the Blackshirts marching and the things they did in Spain
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But I brought me kids up decent showed them wrong from right
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But Hitler was the man who came and taught them how to fight

[Verse 7]
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Me daughter was a land girl she got married to a Yank
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My son he got a medal for stopping one of Rommel’s tanks
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He was wounded near the end of the war and convalesced in Rome
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He got married to an 'eyetie' nurse and never bothered to come home

[Verse 8]
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Me daughter writes me every week a cheerful little note
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About the coloured telly and the other things she’s got
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She’s got a son a likely lad he’s just turned twenty-one
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Now I hear he’s been called up to fight in Vietnam

[Verse 9]
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Now we’re on the pension and it doesn’t go too far
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Not much to show for a life that’s been like one long bloody war
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When I think of all the wasted lives it makes me want to cry
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I don’t know how we’ll change things but by Christ we’ll have to try