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The Town I Left Behind by Johnny McEvoy
The Town I Left Behind
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
G C
Last night as I lay sleeping
G C
A dream came to my mind
G C Am
About a place I loved so well
D G
The town I left behind
G C
And down the years I travelled
G C
To days so long ago
G C Am
I swear to you, I never saw
D G
A face I didn’t know
[Chorus]
G D
And sometimes when I’m lonesome
G C
I think of where I’m from
G C Am
On Cuba Street where old friends meet
D G
The Shannon where we swam
G D
And I can see that old bog road
G C
With turf piled to the sky
G C Am
Oh Banagher, you’ll be my town
D G
Until the day I die
[Verse 2]
G C
Again I walked the Lusmagh fields
G C
Where often I did stray
G C Am
And once again I saw old friends
D G
The friends of yesterday
G C
The Dolans and the Lunhams
G C
The Mallons and the Ryans
G C Am
What memories these names evoke
D G
Of far off happy times
[Chorus]
G D
And sometimes when I’m lonesome
G C
I think of where I’m from
G C Am
On Cuba Street where old friends meet
D G
The Shannon where we swam
G D
And I can see that old bog road
G C
With turf piled to the sky
G C Am
Oh Banagher, you’ll be my town
D G
Until the day I die
[Verse 2]
G C
And ‘round the town I wandered
G C
I knew my way so well
G C Am
And then I saw the old sports field
D G
Where first I’d learned to hurl
G C
I heard the curlew’s lonesome call
G C
Across the Callows still
G C Am
I watched the crows fly ‘round the ruins
D G
Of Wallers’ falling mill
[Chorus]
G D
And sometimes when I’m lonesome
G C
I think of where I’m from
G C Am
On Cuba Street where old friends meet
D G
The Shannon where we swam
G D
And I can see that old bog road
G C
With turf piled to the sky
G C Am
Oh Banagher, you’ll be my town
D G
Until the day I die
[Verse 4]
G C
But now I’m in St. Louis
G C
It’s here I’ve made my home
G C Am
I’ve watched my life drift slowly by
D G
I’ve seen my children grow
G C
And though this land’s been good to me
G C
And happiness I’ve found
G C Am
Just one more time I’d like to see
D G
The town I left behind
[Chorus]
G D
And sometimes when I’m lonesome
G C
I think of where I’m from
G C Am
On Cuba Street where old friends meet
D G
The Shannon where we swam
G D
And I can see that old bog road
G C
With turf piled to the sky
G C Am
Oh Banagher, you’ll be my town
D G
Until the day I die
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