What Makes The Irish Heat Beat Chords

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What Makes The Irish Heat Beat by Van Morrison is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, E7 and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			E 
All that trouble all that grief 
         A            E 
That's why I had to leave 
                         E7   B7 
Staying away too stong is in defeat 
        E                    
Why I'm singing this song 
           A           E 
Why I'm heading back home 
                  E7    B7         E     
That's what makes the Irish heart beat 


E 
I'm just like a hobo riding a train 
              A                 E 
I'm like a gangster living in Spain 
                                       
Have to watch my back and I'm  
            E7  B7 
running out of time 
        E 
When I roll the dice again 
               A           E 
If lady luck will call my name 
                  E7    B7 
That's what makes the Irish heart  
  E 
beat 

E 
Well that's what makes it beat 
             A             E 
When I'm standing on the street 
                             
And I'm standing underneath this  
     E7     B7 
Wrigley's sign 
     E 
Oh so far away from home 
            A           E 
But I know I've got to roam 
                   E7   B7 
That's what makes the Irish heart  
  E 
beat 


E 
And it was off to foreign climes 
         A          E 
On the Piccadilly line 
                            
We were standing underneath the  
     E7    B7 
Wrigley's sign 
     E 
So far away from home 
            A           E 
Well I know I've got to roam 
                   E7    B7 
That’ s what makes the Irish  
       E 
heart beat 

E 
Just like a sailor out on the foam 
      A          E 
Any port in a storm 
               E7             
Where we tend to burn the candle  
        B7 
at both ends 
      E 
Down the corridors of fame 
               A            E 
Like the spark ignites the flame 
                 E7     B7 
That's what makes the Irish  
       E 
heart beat 

E 
But I roll the dice again 
           A               E 
If lady luck will call my name 
             E7         B7 
That s what makes the Irish  
       E 
heart beat 
                 E7         B7 
Oh, that's what makes the Irish  
        E 
heart beat 
                  E7    B7 
That's what makes the Irish  
        E 
heart beat
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante