Missing you (video) (intro) (sample)

Dm - F - G - Am (2x)

  Dm                       G      A

1. In nineteen hundred and eighty six,

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there’s not much for a chippie but swinging a pick.

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And you can’t live on love, and on love alone,

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so you sail cross the ocean, away cross the foam.

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2. To where you're a Paddy, a Biddy or a Mick,

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good for nothing but stacking a brick.

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Your best mate's a spade and he carries a hod,

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two work horses heavily shod.

 F  C   G       Dm           F            C          Am

Oh, I'm missing you, I'd give all for the price of a flight.

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Oh, I'm missing you under Piccadilly's neon.

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3. Who did you murder, are you a spy ?

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I'm just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry.

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Now, I just drink red biddy for a permanent high,

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I laugh a lot less and I'll cry till I die.

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4. All ye young people, now take my advice,

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before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice.

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‘Cause you can't live without love, without love alone,

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the proof is round the West End in the nobody zone,

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5. Where the summer is fine, but the winter's a fridge,

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wrapped up in old cardboard under Charing Cross Bridge.

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And I'll never go home now because of the shame,

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of a misfit's reflection in a shop window pane.

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(Christy Moore)