WELCOME POOR PADDY
HOME 3/4 (Capo on 5th fret)
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I am a true born Irishman
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I'll never deny what I am
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I was born in sweet Tipperary town
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Three thousand miles away
-Chorus-
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Hurray me boys
hurray
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No more do I wish
for to roam
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For the sun it
will shine in the harvest time
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To welcome poor
Paddy home
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The girls thay are gay and frisky
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They'd take you by the hand
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Saying Jimmy mo chroi will you come with me
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To welcome the stranger home
-Chorus-
In came the foreign nation
And scattered all over the land
The horse, the cow, the goat, sheep and sow
Came into the stranger's hands
-Chorus-
The Scotsman can boast of the thistle
And England can boast of the rose
But Paddy can boast of the Emerald Isle
Where the dear little shamrock grows.
-Chorus-
