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Drunken Lullabies Tab

by Flogging Molly


OK. So after some playing around I've finally figured it out. The tabs on this site come close
but not quite. This is how I play it in my band's cover.

Song: Drunken Lullabies
Artist: Flogging Molly
Album: Drunken Lullabies
Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)

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Intro:

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G-C-G-D-G   The C chords are not held for long. You can hear it in the song if you listen.


Verse:

Must it take a life for hateful eyes

To glisten once again

Five hundred years like Gelignite
                   
Have blown us all to hell

What savior rests while on his cross we die

Forgotten freedom burns

Has the Shepard led his lambs astray
                   
to the bigot and the gun

                               
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
                
To glisten once again
                             
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies


I watch and stare as Rosin`s eyes

Turn a darker shade of red

And the bullet with this sniper lie
                      
In their bloody gutless cell

Must we starve on crumbs from long ago

Through these bars of men made steel

Is it a great or little thing we fought
                              
Knelt the conscience blessed to kill

                       
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
                
To glisten once again
                             
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies

                               
Ah, but maybe it`s the way we're taught
                       
Or maybe it`s the way we fought
                                      
But a smile never grins without tears to begin
                            
For each kiss is a cry we all lost
                      
Though nothing left to gain
                                  
But for the banshee that stole the grave
                             
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies


I sit in and dwell on faces past

Like memories seem to fade

No colour left but black and white
                     
And soon will all turn grey

But may these shadows rise to walk again

With lessons truly learnt

When the blossom flowers in each our hearts
                     
Shall beat a new found flame


                       
Must it take a life for hateful eyes
                
To glisten once again
                             
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies
                             
Cause we find ourselves in the same old mess
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies
                   
Singin' drunken lullabies