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Come on Eileen

By Dexys Midnight Runners


(fiddle)          |F   C   |F   Bb  |Bb  F   |C       |   x2
(fiddle and banjo)|C       |Em      |F       |C   G   |   x2

C                Em  
Poor old Johnny Ray
        F                          C                 G    
Sounded sad upon the radio moved a million hearts in mono
C            Em    
 Our mothers cried
F           F                 C        G 
Sang along, who'd blame them           
C                               Em                       
You're grown (you're grown up), so grown (so grown up)**
F                             C        G                  
Now I must say more than ever            (come on Eileen)
C           Em            F   
Toora-loora-toora-loo-rye-aye
           C                  G       
and we can sing just like our fathers

(brass section) |G C G C |GGC G C |G GGGGGG|

D                    F#m                   
Come on Eileen oh, I swear (well he means)
        Em              G      A   
at this moment you mean everything
     D                     F#m                  
With you in that dress, my thoughts (I confess)
         Em             G     A   
verge on dirty, Ah come on Eileen

(banjo)           |A       |A       |
(fiddle and banjo)|C       |Em      |F       |C   G   |

C                  Em   
These people round here
            F                                    
wear beaten-down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces,
      C                    G      
so resigned to what their fate is
    C                    Em                
but not us (no never) no not us (no never)
F                                C       G           
we are far too young and clever             remember
C           Em            F   
Toora-loora-toora-loo-rye-aye
            C                 G    
Eileen I'll hum this tune for ever

(brass section)|G C G C |GGC G C |G GGGGGG|

D                    F#m                   
Come on Eileen, oh I swear (well he means)
        Em                G     A    
Ah come on let's take off everything
     D                   F#m                 
That pretty red dress, Eileen (tell him yes)
        Em                G    A    
Ah come on let's, ah come on Eileen
     D                   F#m                 
That pretty red dress, Eileen (tell him yes)
        Em                G     A   
Ah come on let's, ah come on Eileen
D         
Please...

D                            F#m          
 (Come on Eileen too-loo rye-aye come on)

                    G                                      D      A 
(Eileen too-loo rye-aye  toora    toora-too-loora)                
                                                  
Now you have grown, now you have shown, oh Eileen
D                                                F#m 
                                                 
                                                      
Come on Eileen, these things they are real and I know
                   G                             
how you feel       Now I must say more than ever
D                       A       
 things round here have changed
D             F#m            G           D     A 
Too-ra loo-ra too-ra loo-rye-aye