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Lights Of The Commodore Barry by Matthew Ryan




       Lights Of The Commodore Barry 
      




Capo: 2nd fret

It''''s in standard tuning 
 
 
Verse 1:
D
I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry
 
From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry
G                         A
And I felt the shock of an atom bomb
        D                  A
When the tired old city of Chester
  Em                      A
Was draped and dying in my arms
D
For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering
 
Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings
G                                        A
When the birds were falling like winter''''s frozen rain
          D                          A
And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch
Em                          A
Twelve years old and already ashamed
 
 
Interlude: D, G, A, D, A, Em, A
 
 
Verse 2:
D
Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue
 
By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too
G                          A
Yeah I had returned like I swore I would
   D                     A
To right some wrongs and sing my song
   Em                            A
And share the luck that every man should
D
But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream
 
I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
G                                      A
When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar
              D            A
And carried my drunk bones all the way home
Em                      A
Draped and heavy in his arms
 
 
End on D.








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