N Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 WGell I didn't see much future C

 WGhen I left the Christian brothers school C

 SGo I waved it goodbye with a wistful smile C

 AGnd I left the girls of Tuam C

 AGnd sometimes when I'm reminiscing C

 IG see the prefabs and my old friendsC

 AGnd I know that they'll be changed or gone C

 BGy the time I get home again C

Chorus

 AGnd I wish I was on that N 17 C D

 (DStone walls and the grasses green)

 YGes I wish I was on that N 17 C D

 (DStone walls and the grasses green)

 TFravelling with just my thouCghts and dreams G

 WGell the ould fella left me to Shannon C

 WGas the last time I travelled that road C

 aGnd as I turned left at CClaregalway

 IG could feel a lump in my throat C

 AGs I pictured the thousands of times C

 TGhat I travelled that well worn track C

 AGnd I know that things would be different C

 IGf I ever decide to go back C

Chorus

 NGow as I tumble down highways C

 OGr filthy overcrowded trains C

 TGhere's no one to talk to in transit C

 SGo I sit there and daydream in vain C

 AGnd behind all these muddled up problems C

 OGf living on a foreign soil C

 IG can still see the twists and turns on the roCad

 >GFrom the square to the town of the tribes C