Danny Boy Chords by Johnny Cash

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[Intro]
A Amaj7 A7 D A Esus4
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E7 Bm7 A
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[Verse]
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Back about nineteen ■     eighteen my father Ray Cash was in the army in ■ France
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Along about armistice day he was one of the proud men to stand inspection by general John J
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Pershing ■
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■ Less than a year later my dad was back on a cotton farm in southwest Arkansas
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And you know the way of life didn't change very fast back home
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He rode a horse about ten miles every Sunday ■ to see Miss Carrie Rivers
              A    F#m Esus4                                                       
In those days when ■   everyone in a country either rode a horse or wagon or walked
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You were probably a stranger if you were five miles from  ■ ■   home or less maybe
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Sometimes life was pretty tough so some of the people were tough too
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That's why my dad had ■   a Colt zero point four five stuck in his belt every Sunday
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The first thing he always did was to lay his pistol on the manilow of the fireplace ■ at
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grandpa Rivers
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When my parents got married my mother Carrie Rivers was sixteen
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After that it wasn't long 'til daddy wasn't considered a stranger
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So he made friends with 'most everybody ■   ■     around
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Daddy tells about an Irish immigrant on a railroad where he worked the Cotton Belt line
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Who never stopped talkin' about going back to Dublin
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One of the first stories I ever remember my dad tellin' was one ■   that an Irish immigrant
        
told him
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And according to that particular source of information
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There ■ was this boy name Daniel McKinney workin' on the fields one mornin'
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And across the fields came his sweetheart Rosa Lee she came cryin' ■ with tears in her eyes
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Later someone put down into a song some of the things that Rosa Lee told Daniel


[Chorus]
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She said ■  ■     Daniel there's a bloody war outraging and I've come to tell you that they are
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wantein' ■ ■   you to fight
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Go fight for Ireland but come back to me Daniel I'll be waitin'
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Oh Danny boy the pipes the ■     pipes are calling
    
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[Outro]
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