All The Way From Tuam

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l'm from the town drenched in 
     C           F
football and rain
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that fathered the terrible twins
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tom murphy the footballer, 
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playwright and singer
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he left to spread his wide wings
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where the dance halls once 
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buzzing with shifts and refusals
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stand silent dejected and cold
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where they played basketball for a
 C       F
 longer duration
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than anywhere else in the world

chorus:
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we're all the way from tuam
C              F       G
      all the way from tuam
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C                     F    G
with a rock solid spirit, that'll 
never be broken
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there's songs to be sung, and 
there's words to be spoken
C                        F    G
from the town that was built, where 
the cart wheel was broken
C              F       G
we're all the way from tuam
C              F       G
      all the way from tuam

comment:
substitute, from the town....
to; l still remember, the white star
 being open(2nd chorus)
add; no matter where you're 
from,everyone local(after,from the 
town...in the
3rd chorus)
extra verses;
where we'd spend  all the weekends 
to help pass the winter
playing soccer above in parkmore
or we'd travel away for a match into
 galway
in the swamp or out in renmore
they'd be calling us smokies the 
lads from the city
but l didn't care what they called 
me
just plank it in lively across for 
the noodle, sham
his jills with the k.d's a gomey
chorus:
here in the town where the high king
 once ruled
with the wisdom of ages gone by
the grey stone cathedral spiers are 
dwarfed
by a tall metal tower in the sky
where the traveller's are settling, 
and the settled gone travelling
the pubs full of gossip and rumour
you'll never better the people of 
tuam
for their power, passion, packets 
and humour
chorus:

sounds good with an 
harmonica/accordion, and needs a 
geeser on a fiddle to
whack out some subtle mellow 
undertones!!
goodnight vienna
simon