Broad Black Brimmer Cifras

[Verse]
 
C                                         F                 C
There's a uniform still hanging in what's known as father's room,
                             G
A uniform so simple in it's style,
     C                                 F                  C
It's got no braid of gold nor silk no hat with feathered plume,
                   F          G       C
Yet me mother has preserved it all the while.
    F                           C
One day she made me try it on, a wish of mines for years,
                                  Am
in memory of your father dear she said,
           C                               F                  C
And as I placed the Sam Browne on she was smiling through her tears,
       F                      G             C
As she placed the Broad Black Brimmer on me head
 
 
[Chorus]
 
             C                         F                  C
It's just a Broad Black Brimmer, it's ribbon's frayed and torn ,
        C
By the careless whisp of many's a mountain breeze,
   C                         F                  C
An old trench coat thats all battle stained and worn,
                      F        G       C
And breeches almost threadbare at the knees.
  F                      C
A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong,
C                                      Am
And a holster thats been empty manys a day (But not for long)
         C                                F                    C
But when men claim Ireland's freedom, the one you'll choose to lead 'em
                                         G   C
Will wear the Broad Black Brimmer of the I.R.A.
 
 
[Verse]
 
           C                        F             C
It was the uniform being worn by me father long ago,
         C                                    G
When he reached me mother's homestead on the run,
G          C                          F               C
It was the uniform being worn in that little churh below,
         F             G                   C
When ol' Father Mac he blessed the pair as one.
    F                              C
And after truce and treaty and the parting of the waves,
                                        Am
He wore it when he marched out with the rest.
    C                     F                C
And as they bore his body down that rugged braes,
       F                      G             C
They placed the Broad Black Brimmer on his breast.
 
 
[Chorus]
 
             C                         F                  C
It's just a Broad Black Brimmer, it's ribbon's frayed and torn ,
        C
By the careless whisp of many's a mountain breeze,
   C                         F                  C
An old trench coat thats all battle stained and worn,
                      F        G       C
And breeches almost threadbare at the knees.
  F                      C
A Sam Browne belt with a buckle big and strong,
C                                      Am
And a holster thats been empty manys a day (But not for long)
         C                                F                    C
But when men claim Ireland's freedom, the one you'll choose to lead 'em
                                         G   C
Will wear the Broad Black Brimmer of the I.R.A.
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