Eileen Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

D F♯m Bm

 Eileen, don’t yBm7ou remember, don’t you remember me?

Gadd9 D

 I was your secret boyA7friend, when you were just seventeen

D F♯m

 Eileen my sister was right wBm7hen she said we could never be

Gadd9 D A

 I Dwas alDsus4l in orange, butD you were all in green

G1 D

 Ah Dsus4but I loved yDou, pure and sweet as a mountain stream,

 Ah but I loved you soft as theG1 rain on the cobbled street D

Aadd9You could never tell your mother about me (ba da da da dum) Bm

Aadd9Your brother would have come to sort me out (ba da da da dum) Bm

Aadd9And though you were the sweetest thing that I had ever seen Bm

Em7It would always come down, A7

Em7it would always come down, A7

Em7 A7

 ItD must Dsus4always cDome down to the orange and the green

At nights we sat by your gas fire, music on the radio

Our favourite was the Merseybeats’ ‘We’ve Got a Groovy Kind of Love.’

Then we’d lie on your bed and we’d kiss, and we’d kiss and we’d kiss some more

Clandestine lovers, with no place to go

Ah but I loved you, pure and sweet as a mountain stream,

Ah but I loved you soft as the rain on the cobbled street

The last time that we met I knew it was over (ba da da da dum)

I could see the sad resignation in your eyes (ba da da da dum)

Just made you look more beautiful, so contrite and serene

‘Cos it must always come down,

It must always come down,

It must always come down to the orange and the green

Suppose you got married, got children, grandchildren now I guess

Suppose your life’s been good to you

I hope that you’ve been blessed.

I’m sending out this message to you Eileen just to make you smile

And remember a sad-faced ragged boy, that you once loved for a while

Ah but I loved you, pure and sweet as a mountain stream,

Ah but I loved you soft as the rain on the cobbled street

It’s forty years on since we walked together

Hand in hand down O’Connell Street

The world has changed a lot since then but enough as I have seen

‘Cos still it always comes down

Still it always comes down,

It still always comes down to the orange and the green.

Eileen, don’t you remember, don’t you remember me...?

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