Warren Zevon

Macgillycuddys Reeks

Warren Zevon


Tom: D

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[Verse 1]
D
She stood beside my narrow bed
   A            D
To check my E.K.G.
    D
She shook her pretty little head
   A
At what's become of me

  D
I thought I glimpsed a path that led
        G            D
Through rhododendron days
    D
And fuchsia nights to the boat-shed
   A                 D
In which we two once lay


[Chorus]
    G                    D
But she gazed only at my chart
    Bm      A       G
The valleys and the peaks
        G                 D
Brought back the time she broke my heart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks

    G                    D
But she gazed only at my chart
    Bm      A       G
The valleys and the peaks
        G                 D
Brought back the time she broke my heart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks


[Interlude]

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[Verse 2]
  D
I saw her on Killarney's shore
    A          D
One morning in July
     D
When I still thought I was a thorn
A
Trying to find a side

  D
I met her in the little launch
     G       D
That runs to Innisfallen
D
Hunched together, haunch to haunch
A                 D
Trying to keep my balance


[Chorus]
    G            D
But she upset my applecart
    Bm        A      G
She kissed me on the cheek
      G             D
And I was struck by Cupid's dart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks

   G            D
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
   Bm   A       G
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
  G             D
I was struck by Cupid's dart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks


[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
    D
She was a systems analyst
      A       D
For a dot com company
    D
She said, "You think because we've kissed
        A
I'll be yours eternally

     D
I'll sign another pre-nup
          G             D
And we'll merge our P.L.C.s
       D
that's why most girls go belly-up
   A    D
In this economy


[Chorus]
    G                  D
But when it comes to a jump start
     Bm         A      G
Your forecast's pretty bleak
    G              D
The NASDAQ goes by dips and starts
     A               D
Like Macgillycuddy's Reeks

   G            D
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
   Bm   A       G
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
    G              D
The NASDAQ goes by dips and starts
     A               D
Like Macgillycuddy's Reeks"


[Solo]

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[Chorus]
    G                    D
But she gazed only at my chart
    Bm      A       G
The valleys and the peaks
        G                 D
Brought back the time she broke my heart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks

G               D
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
   Bm   A       G
Macgillycuddy's Reeks
     G                D
That was the time she broke my heart
   A               D
In Macgillycuddy's Reeks


[Outro]

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