Lament For Brendan Behan Ao vivo Cifras

[Verse 1]
 
C                  G7      C
Word has come from Dublin City
                      F
Word has come to our town
C                     G7    C
Word has come from Dublin City
                              Am
They tell me bold Brendan is dead
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
C                          G7      C
Born in 'twentythree in a slum in Dublin
                         F
With a tenement over his head
C                        F                G7
Born with a spirit his flesh could not contain
     C                        Am
They tell me bold Brendan is dead
 
 
[Verse 3]
 
   C                     F       C
He died at the Meath in far off Dublin
                         G7
In a cold white hospital bed
        C                       F                    G7
In the Georgian tenements the children hushed their singing
      C                         Am
They know that bold Brendan is dead
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
    C                    F            C
No stranger to life, he lived right enough
                                  G7
No stranger to the glass in his hand
    C                        F              C
No stranger to the cause he fought all his life
    C                             Am
Yet they tell me bold Brendan is dead
 
 
[Verse 5]
 
C                     F           C
Ireland has lost her sweet angry singer
                              G7
No longer his poems of fine design
      C                     F                 G7
Will ring out in Gaelic or sound through the lanes
     C                     Am
For alas! bold Brendan is dead
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