Paddy Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

CFrom his window he watches as people, come and go on their Gway.

 Rushin to catch the train homewards, as he often did in his dCay.

 He remembers the dark of the mornings, the days he worked in the rGain.

 the good times the bad times the friends that the knew, hG7e'll never see them

 agCain.

 At night when the streets are deserted, except for the take away sGigns

he thinks of the men that he worked with, on the buildings the roads and the

 miCnes

 the girl that he met in the galtee, he thought he might make her his oGwn.

 Maybe if there was less drinkin', hG7e wouldn't have wound up alone.

Chorus

 PF is for powerful when put to the test, CA is for always doin' your best,

FD is for doin' if it can be done, and DD is for drinkin' when wGork it is done

FY is for yearnin' to see home again, pCroud to be Irish and hard workin' men

FPaddy remember though your day is done, you're the rGock that EG7ngland stands

Con.

CHe never explained just what happened, the years seemed to pass like a dGay,

 Was it the rain or the shovel, toG7ok the strength from his limbs awCay.

CSometimes he thinks of the boreen, that led from his house to the lGane.

 And the fields that he worked with his father, hG7e'll never see them aCgain.

Chorus

FP is for powerful when put to the test, CA is for always doin' your best,

FD is for doin' if it can be done, and DD is for drinkin' when woGrk it is done

FY is for yearnin' to see home again, pCroud to be Irish and hard workin' men

FPaddy remember though your day is done, you're the rGock that England stands

Con.

DAs he makes his way back to the shelter, rain starts to fall on the grAound

 A young man just in from Cork City, asks him where work can be fDound.

 He said "son take a long look at Paddy, and remember what ever you Ado,

 This broken old man that you're seein, was once a young man just like yDou"