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12-string Guitar: From Clare To Here

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Channel: threelegsoman · 2009 · Music

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This is a song I have strummed along with and joined in on the chorus when others have been singing it at our Tuesday sessions, but this is the first time I have attempted to sing it myself. Written by Ralph McTell (who famously wrote The Streets of London) this lovely song is full of nostalgia for the narrator's home in Clare.

From Clare To Here
Ralph McTell
No Capo

Intro:   F   G   C   G   F   G   C   G   Dm   G7   C Am Dm   Em   Am

F                                               G                   C                             G                  
There's four who share this room as we work hard for the brass
        F                           G               C                    G 
And sleeping late on Sundays I never get to Mass                  

         Dm           G7                             C/Am                
It's a long long way from Clare to here 
          Dm                    Em        Am               
It's a long way from Clare to here
F                         G                          C                      Am         
It's a long, long way, and it gets further by the day 
         Dm  G                              Am               
It's a long way from Clare to here 

When Friday comes around Terry's only into fighting 
My ma would like a letter home but I'm too tired for writing 

It almost breaks my heart when I think of Josephine 
I told her I'd be coming home with my pockets full of green 

And the only time I feel alright is when I'm into drinking 
It sort of eases the pain of it and levels out my thinking 

I sometimes hear a fiddle play or maybe it's a notion 
I dream I see white horses dance upon that other ocean 

It's a long, long way from Clare to here.

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