Lucky Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]He [D]met the world as a
Dalmatian boy
Raised from a shaft at Moncton Hall
In a well oiled cage
That locked away his dreams
An `85 veteran face from the gallery
A ghost from the civil war in the family
He stood his ground on the picket line
`Til all that he was left with
Were his father`s cough
And his mother`s eyes
That would hold a tear
For the very first time
When the [C]government took his job [G]away
Now [D]fist in hand he`ll stand in line
Declare his name and mark his time
[C]To some the only proof that they`re [G]alive

[Verse 2]
He could have been [F]you
He could have been me
He could have been [Bb]anybody
But [Eb]he was born lucky[F][Eb]
[F]

[Interlude 1]
[Bb][Eb][Bb]
[F][Eb][F][Bb]

[Verse 3]
[F]He made his first down payment
On a sharp Italian suit
He sewed razor [Eb]blades into the [F]lapels[Bb]
[F]See him sweating on the dance floor
Cool dust oozing out of every pore
A [Eb]hard man with a hard life
And that`s a [Bb]story that he`ll tell you
Down [F]at Easter Road till his throat is raw
On a Saturday, he knows the score
Till the [Eb]whistle blows and
The colors with their [Bb]tem
pers fade [F]away

[Verse 4]
He could [F]have been [Bb]you[Eb][F][Fsus4][F]
He [Fsus4]could have been me[F]
He could have been [Bb]anybody
But [Eb]he was born lu[Bb]cky

[Interlude 2]
[C][F][C][Bb][F]
[Bb][F][C][F][C][Bb]
[F][D][C]
[D][G]

[Verse 5]
[D]On the helipads at Aberdeen
Bound for platforms drilling
oil rich seas
Where the trawlers are getting
fewer every year
By the furnaces at Ravenscraig
By the padlocks holding
John Brown`s gates
In the desert, in the fields of South Armagh
[G]Where the pop[D]pies grow
Behind the Hampden roar
Behind the drums in Genoa
On [C]the deck that rides
a South Atlantic [G]swell
[D]Born to fight out of the tightest corner
You can bet on him with the
odds against you
They`ll not [C]put him down

[Outro 1]
No matter how they try
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[F][Fsus4][F][Bb][Eb]
[F][Fsus4][F]
[Bb][Eb][F][Fsus4]
[F][Bb][Eb][F]
[Eb][Bb][Eb][F]
[Eb][Bb][Eb][F]
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