The Luck Of The Irish Chords
by John Lennon
The Luck Of The Irish by John Lennon is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, Bm and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
(G G) intro
(G)If you had the (C)luck of the (G)Irish
(Bm)You'd be sorry and (C)wish you were (D)dead
(G)You should have the (C)luck of the (G)Irish
And you'd (Bm)wish you was (D)English (G)instead!
A thousand years of torture and hunger
Drove the people away from their land
A land full of beauty and wonder
Was raped by the British brigands! God***! God***!
If you could keep voices like flowers
There'd be shamrock all over the world
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the 'Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land
Of the pain, the death and the glory
And the poets of auld Eireland
If we could make chains with the morning dew
The world would be like Galway Bay
Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
The world would be one big Blarney stone
Why the hell are the English there anyway?
As they kill with God on their side
Blame it all on the kids the IRA
As the bastards commit genocide! Aye! Aye! Genocide!
If you had the luck of the Irish
You'd be sorry and wish you was dead
You should have the luck of the Irish
And you'd wish you was English instead!
Yes you'd wish you was English instead!