Shades of a Blue Orphanage Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]When we were kids he used to go over the back
wall into [Em]old Dan's [Am]scrapyard
Into the snooker hall where most
[Em]us kids were barred
[Am]An' into the roxy and the stella
where film [Em]stars [F]starred
That's where me and Hopalong an' Roy
[D]Rogers got drunk and jarred
And we [G]might have been the saviour of the men,
[Em]
The captured captain in
the devil's demon den
[Am]And we might have been the magic politician
[Em]in some kind of tricky position
Like [Am]an old, old,
old master musician we kept [Em]on wishin'
[F]We was headed for the number one
hit [D]country again

[Verse 2]
[chorus] [G]And it's
true
[Am]True blue
[D]Irish [G]blue[C]
And it's [Am]true
True [D]blue
And [G]sometimes [Em]it reminds
me of you
[C]

[Verse 3]
[G]
There's an old photo[Em]graph of Dan
that I wish you could- a [G]seen[Em][G]
[Am]Of him and the boys posed,
standing in St. [Em]Stephen's green
[Am]Ya see, they were a part of
the great [Em]freedom dream
[F]But they were caught and detained and
are locked in[D]side the frame
[G]Of the photograph
An' he might have [C]been the clev[G]er con,
the good [C]samaritan, [G]the[Em] rassclaut man
[Am]An' he might have been the loaded gun,
the charlatan of the tap dan[Em]cin' fan
[Am]But like an old pioneer from out
[Em]er A[F]fghanistan,
Headed for the number [D]one
hit country again

[Verse 4]
[Chorus] [G]And it's
true
[Am]True blue
[D]Irish [G]blu[C]e
[Am]And it's true
[D]True blue
[G]And [Em]sometimes it reminds
me of [C]you[G][Em]

[Verse 5]
Old Dan in [G]a raincoat [Em]hums[G] the[Em] very,
very, very special [Am]notes
Of a long lost favor[G]ite [Em]melody
[Am]It reminds him of a love affair when
[Em]he was young and did not care
[F]And how he parted so [D]soft, so sadden
And [G]he might have been the laughing cavaliero,
[Em]the wise old commanchero
[Am]Ow, the desperate desparado, the
good looking [Em]Randolph Valentino,
[Am]The gigolo from glasgow
But like [Em]an old,
old hunter of the female buffalo,
[F]He's headed for the number
[D]one hit country again

[Verse 6]
[Chorus] [G]And it's
true
[Am]True blue
[D]Irish [G]blu[C]e
And it's [Am]true
[D]True blue
And [G]sometimes [Em]it rem[C]inds me of you

[Verse 7]
An[Am]d it's [D]true
True blue
[G]Irish [Em]blue
True blue
[C]Irish blue
And it's [Am]true
It's so [D]true
Ummm, it's true
I swear [G]I've said it
Swear I've [Em]said it
I swear [C]I said it
I swear it's true
And [Am]it's true
[D]True blue
Oh, its [G]irish [Em]blue
[C]And it's true...