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The Patriot Game by The Kingston Trio
The Patriot Game
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 1st fret
Key: Ab
[Intro]
G C G D7 G
[Verse 1]
G C G
Come all you young rebels
D G
And list' while we sing
D G
For the love of one's country
C G
Is a terrible thing.
D G
It banishes fear with
C G
the speed of a flame
C G
And it makes us all part of
D G
the patriot game.
[Verse 2]
G C G
My name is O'Hanlon,
D G
And I'm just gone sixteen,
D G
My home is in Monaghan,
C G
Where I was weaned,
D G
I've learned all my life
C G
Cruel England's to blame,
C G
And so I'm a part of
D G
the patriot game.
[Verse 3]
C G
This Ireland of ours has
D G
for long been half free,
D G
Six counties are under
C G
John Bull's tyranny,
D G
So we gave up our boyhoods
C G
to drill and to train,
C G
And play our own part in
D G
the patriot game.
[Verse 4]
(This version lyrics spoken, not sung)
C G
It's barely two years since
D G
they wandered away,
D G
and it was with the local battalion
C G
of the bold I.R.A.
D G
For they'd read of our heroes
C G
and they wanted the same,
C G
To play their own part in
D G
the patriot game.
[Verse 5]
C G
And now as I lie here,
D G
My body all holes,
D G
I think of those traitors,
C G
Who bargained in souls,
D G
I wish that my rifle
C G
had given the same,
C G
To those quislings who sold out
D G
the patriot game.
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