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Drunken Lullabies - Flogging Molly

[Intro] x2
[G] [C G] [G] [D]
[G] [C G] [G D] [G]

[Verse 1]
        G               G
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
   Em            Em
To glisten once again
     C                  C
Five hundred years like Gelignite
     Em              D
Have blown us all to hell (to hell!)
     G                           G
What savior rests while on his cross we die
   Em             Em
Forgotten freedom burns
        C                C
Has the Shephard led his lambs astray
       Em            D
To the bigot and the gun

[Chorus]
        C               G
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
   C             D
To glisten once again
         G       C             Em
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G       D    G
Singin' drunken lullabies

[Post-chorus] [same as intro]

[Verse 2]
  G                  G
I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes
       Em              Em
Turn a darker shade of red
        C                C
And the bullet with this sniper lie
         Em             D
In their bloody gutless cell
        G                     G
Must we starve on crumbs from long ago
              Em               Em
Through these bars of men made steel
        C               C
Is it a great or little thing we fought
          Em                    D
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
        C              D         G
Ah, but maybe it's the way we're taught
   C              D      G
Or maybe it's the way we fought
      C           D             G        C
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
         C         D          G    G
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
       C               G
Though nothing left to gain
            C                      D
But for the banshee that stole the grave
         G       C             Em
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G       D    G
Singin' drunken lullabies (right!)

[Verse 3]
  G                  G
I sit in and dwell on faces past
     Em               Em
Like memories seem to fade
   C              C
No color left but black and white
    Em                 D
And soon will all turn grey
              G               G
But may these shadows rise to walk again
     Em            Em
With lessons truly learnt
         C                  C
When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
      Em               D
Shall beat a new found flame (the flame!)

[Chorus]

[Outro]
         G        C            Em
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
        G          D       G
Singin' drunken... lul... abies
C Em        G       D    G
    Singin' drunken lullabies

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