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Back Home In Derry
Christy Moore
Key : G
Capo
[Intro]
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Gm | A# | F | C | Gm 
A# | F  
Gm

[Verse 1]
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F    Gm            A#
 Eighteenothree we sailed out to sea
F            C             Gm
Out from the sweet town of Derry
                          A#
For Australia bound if we didn't all drown
    F            C             Gm
The marks of our fetters we carried

[Bridge (1)]
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       C                    A#
In the rusty iron chains we cried for our wanes
    C                     Dm
Our good women we left in sorrow
       Gm                       A#
As the main sails unfurled, our curses we hurled
       F                   C        Gm
On the English and thoughts of tomorrow

[Verse 2]
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       Gm                          A#
At the mouth of the Foyle, bid farewell to the soil
   F          C             Gm
As down below decks we were lying
                                A#
O Doherty screamed woke him out of a dream
     F             C         Gm
By a vision of bold Robert dying

[Bridge (2)]
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    C                         A#
The sun burned cruel as we dished out the gruel
      C                          Dm
Dan O Connor was down with the fever
      Gm                     A#
Sixty rebels today bound for Botany Bay
    F              C        Gm
How many will reach their reciever?

[Chorus (1)]
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A# | F 
  Gm         F            Gm   A# F
I wish I was back home in Derry
  Gm         F            Gm
I wish I was back home in Derry

[Verse 3]
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  Gm                          A#
I cursed them to hell, as her bow fought the swell
         F             C           Gm
Our ship danced like a moth in the firelight
                             A#
Wild horses rode high as the devil passed by
       F          C           Gm
Taking souls into Hades by twilight

[Bridge (3)]
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     C                        A#
Five weeks out to sea we were now forty three
   C                        Dm
We buried our comrades each morning
Gm                        A#
In our own slime, we were lost in the time
F       C                Gm
Endless night without dawning



[Verse 4]
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Gm                     A#
Van Diemen's land is a hell for a man
   F                C        Gm
To end out his whole life in slavery
                                 A#
Where the climate is raw and the gun makes the law
        F             C             Gm
Neither wind nor rain care for bravery

[Bridge (4)]
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       C                           A#
Twenty years have gone by and I've ended my bond
   C                       Dm
My comrades' ghosts walk behind me
  Gm            A#
A rebel I came, I'm still the same
     F            C              Gm
On a cold winters night you will find me

[Chorus (2)]
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A# | F 
  Gm         F            Gm   A# F
I wish I was back home in Derry
  Gm         F            Gm   A# F
I wish I was back home in Derry
  Gm         F            Gm   A# F
I wish I was back home in Derry
  Gm         F            Gm
I wish I was back home in Derry

[Outro]
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A# | F | Gm | F | Gm 
A# | F | Gm | F | Gm 
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