Galway Races(Chords)

	        




Intro: D 

verse 1: 
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As I rode out to Galway Town to seek for recreation 
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On the seventeenth of August, me mind being elevated 
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There was multitudes assembled with their tickets at the station 
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Me eyes began to dazzle and I going to see the races 

 
       F           C 
With a wack fol de dil  
       Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay___ 



verse 2: 
                         F 
It's there you'll see confectioners and sugar-sticks and dainties 
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And lozenges and oranges and lemonade and raisins 
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And gingerbread and spices to accommodate the ladies 
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And a big crúibin for thruppence to be pickin' while you're able 

 
       F           C 
With a wack fol de dil  
       Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay___ 



verse 3: 
                         F 
And there you'll see the pipers and the fiddlers competing 
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And nimble footed dancers and they're tripping on the daisies 
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And others crying 'Cigars and lights' and bills for all the races 
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With the colours of the jockeys and the price and horses ages 

 
        F           C 
With me wack fol de dil  
       Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay___ 



verse 4: 
                          F 
It's there you'll see the jockeys and they mounted on so stably 
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The blue, the pink, the red, the green, the emblem of our nation 
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When the bell was rung for starting, all the horses seemed impatient 
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I thought they never stood on ground, their speed was so amazing 

 
       F           C 
With a wack fol de dil  
       Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay___ 



verse 4: 
          F 
There was half a million people there of all denominations 
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The Catholic, the Protestant, the Jew and Presbyterian 
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There was yet no animosity, no matter what persuasion 
                            Dm     C       Dm 
But fortune, hospitality, inducing fresh acquaintance 

 
        F           C 
With me wack fol de dil  
       Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay___ 

            F           C 
Ah, with me wack fol de dil  
       Dm                  C Dm 
Fol de diddly idle lay____

	        

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