90 Miles From Dublin - Christy Moore Chords
Chords: G, D, Am, C
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Genre: folk, irish, singer-songwriter
[Verse 1]
G D Am C G C G
I’m ninety miles from Dublin Town I’m in a H-Block cell
G Am C G C
To help you understand my plight this story now I’ll tell
G Am C G Am C
I’m on the Blanket Protest my efforts must not fail
G D Am C G C G
I’m joined by men and women in the Blocks and Armagh Gaol
[Verse 2]
G D Am C G C G
It all began the morning I was dragged to Castlerea
G Am C G C
And though it was three years ago it seems like yesterday
G Am C G Am C
Three days kicked and beaten and then I was forced to sign
G D Am C G C G
Confessions that convicted me of deeds that were not mine
[Verse 3]
G D Am C G C G
Sentenced in a Diplock court my protest it began
G Am C G C
I could not wear that prison gear I was a Blanket Man
G Am C G Am C
I’ll not accept your status I’ll not be criminalised
G D Am C G C G
That’s the issue in the Blocks for which we give our lives
[Verse 4]
G D Am C G C G
Over there in London how they’d laugh and sneer
G Am C G C
If they could only make us wear their loathsome prison gear
G Am C G Am C
Prisoners of War is what we are and that we will remain
G D Am C G C G
The Blanket Protest must not end till our status we regain
[Verse 5]
G D Am C G C G
I’ve been beaten round the romper room because I won’t say sir
G Am C G C
Frogmarched down the landing and pulled back by the hair
G Am C Am C
I’ve suffered degradation humility and pain
G D Am C G C G
My spirit does not falter british torture is in vain
[Verse 6]
G D Am C G C G
I’ve been held in scalding water my skin with deck scrubs torn
G Am C G C
Scratched and cut from head to foot and thrown out on the floor
G Am C G Am C
Suffered mirror searches probed by drunken bears
G D Am C G C G
I’ve listened to my comrades’ scream and sob their lonely prayers
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