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Chords Req: Mattie (Johnny Mulhern)
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Subject: Need guitar chords for 'Mattie' From: GUEST,drummerRob Date: 29 Jun 06 - 05:43 PM Looking for guitar chords for a song called "Mattie"... it's in the DT database... who can help? drummerrob |
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: MATTIE (Johnny Mulhern) From: Declan Date: 29 Jun 06 - 07:51 PM This is how I do it. Its a simple 3 chord trick G, C and D but it works fine. Not sure if the spacing of the chords will work out right, but you should be able to get the general idea. I've made some minor amendments to the lyrics posted earlier (as I hear them). As well as Sean Tyrell's great version, it was also recorded by CHristy Moore on the Ordinary Man album in the early 80s MATTIE by Johnny Mulhern G Mattie walked out on a frozen night C G He was heading for the pub and he had no delight C G He headed down the railroad track D G And his old cow Delia sat a lowin' him back G He met with a dark and staggerin' man C G As he passed him by shouted back at him: C G Mattie can't you see what's become of me D G I cannot feel the fight G The very last house that I've left C Half impressed with my rhymes G is now dead to me C G All I've got left is the beat of the stagger D G Heading down the Curragh Line But Mattie passed on as quick as he could He couldn't stand such a drunken man sober All he wanted was the lights in the bar The 'Nightingale' and the 'Wild Rover'. D When he came in G They said: Ah you're back Did Delia drive you out With your spoutin' and your swearin'? D G We don't want to hear about Bunker Hayden C D G Later you can give us the 'Girls of Kinkane'. The fear-a-ti* eyed him warily As he handed him his first jar of porter He says: You must have seen the bishop's ghost tonight To put the dry look back in your eye. But Mattie would not be taken in By their jibin' and their regalin' He found himself a freshly blowin' crew And fell in with their sport and their bailin'. But as he was going home, in the very same spot Where he met his dark familiar He seen him comin' back down the line And he was bright, strange and fine. As he passed him by Mattie threw out his arms Trying to grab hold of his likeness In the morning all they found was a frozen corpse And the butt of Curragh Line. And at the wake They were lashin' down 'The drops of brandy' 'The old fashioned habit' In the church they were lashin' down pounds and fivers So Mattie would be fine in the old by and by. * man of the house Sung by Seàn Tyrrell on "Cry of a Dreamer" (1995) |
Subject: RE: Chords Req: Mattie (Johnny Mulhern) From: GUEST,Drummerrob Date: 03 Aug 06 - 08:57 AM Thank you so much!!! Actually I figured it out as well, then found your very helpful post. I first heard the christy moore version, where the words are very different. Being from the u.s., I think I heard some of my own words and meanings rather than those that were intended by the author. For instance, I thought I heard heard on chiristy's version: All Ive got is the deed to the stagger, at the end of the curra line. SO......... for the past few months ive been thinking that a stagger was vernacular for a track of land, and that this is a ghost story about a ghost who tried to sell his deed to mattie. Since mattie wouldnt have anything to do with him, he got him on the way back, showing his true ghost self..."bright and strange and fine" There are other spots as well. Am I waaaay off or is this generally the crux of the bisquit??? |
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