Biography:
Damien Dempsey (born 1975 in Donaghmede, Dublin) is an Irish singer and songwriter who mixes traditional Irish folk with contemporary lyrics to deliver social commentary on the positive and negative aspects arising from Ireland's Celtic Tiger society. He sings in English, and to a lesser extent in Irish.
Dempsey's earliest musical influences were the post-pub singsongs that his parents used to have at their home when he was a toddler. Good, bad or indifferent, everyone had to sing.
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Other songs:
- Your Pretty Smile
- Sing All Our Cares Away
- Apple Of My Eye
- Bad Time Garda
- Bottle Talk
- Bustin Outta Here
- Canadian Geese Live
- Cardboard City
- Chase The Light
- Colony
- Factories
- Ghosts Of Overdoses
- Go To Sea No More
- Hold Me
- Industrial School
- Its All Good
- Jar Song
- Kelly From Killane
- Negative Vibes
- Not On Your Own Tonight
- Party On
- Patience
- Sam Jenkins
- Schooldays Over
- Seize The Day
- Sing All Your Cares Away
- Spraypaint Backalley
- St Patricks Day
- We Need Community
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Again the tuning for this song, like most Damo songs, is DADGBD (low to high) and its
enough to play so have fun
Tabbed - Dave Anderson
Damien Dempsey, St. Patrick's Day, from Shots.
Tuning - DADGBD
Chords:
D1 - 000230
D2 - 000030
D3 - 004030
G - 555000
Em - 222000 - at the outro the low E has a hammer on so Em2 - 022000
F# - 444000
B - 999000
A - 777000
(Intro palm-muted strokes with D1)
D1 D2 D3 D2
D1 D2 D3 D2
Verse
D1 D2 D3 D2
Mammy sings wonderfully
D1 D2 D3 D2
Lamenting melodies
G
Then Daddy comes home from work
Em F# G
He falls in and goes beserk
D1 D2 D3 D2
Priest calls around for tea
D1 D2 D3 D2
He always seemed so terribley lonely
G
Talks of Industrial School
(G) Em F# G
As he looks at me so cruel
Chorus:
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they march in Amerikay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they dance down Cricklewood Way
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they sang round Botnay Bay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
For my sanity, I'll pray
(Just the same as the verses)
Da fought the black and Tans
So did our Uncle Dan
Then there was Civil War
and we ne'er saw Dan anymore
We all have to walk to Cobh
A family of thriteen both young and old
Transport our poverty
To a room and a ditch 'cross the sea
Chorus
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they march in Amerikay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they dance down Cricklewood Way
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they sang round Botnay Bay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G---------------G
For my sanity, I'll pray
For this next part the chords in brakets are played only shortly (rhythm-wise i mean)
the next chord.
Outro
B (G)A (F#)G (Em)F# (Em2)Em X2
Em F# G
St. Patrick's Day X2
Em F# G
On Patrick's Day X2
finish with an open strum (no chords) - well, i think it is anyway, or if you prefer D1.
Corrects or comments or whatever have you - contact me at [email protected]
Sláinte
enough to play so have fun
Tabbed - Dave Anderson
Damien Dempsey, St. Patrick's Day, from Shots.
Tuning - DADGBD
Chords:
D1 - 000230
D2 - 000030
D3 - 004030
G - 555000
Em - 222000 - at the outro the low E has a hammer on so Em2 - 022000
F# - 444000
B - 999000
A - 777000
(Intro palm-muted strokes with D1)
D1 D2 D3 D2
D1 D2 D3 D2
Verse
D1 D2 D3 D2
Mammy sings wonderfully
D1 D2 D3 D2
Lamenting melodies
G
Then Daddy comes home from work
Em F# G
He falls in and goes beserk
D1 D2 D3 D2
Priest calls around for tea
D1 D2 D3 D2
He always seemed so terribley lonely
G
Talks of Industrial School
(G) Em F# G
As he looks at me so cruel
Chorus:
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they march in Amerikay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they dance down Cricklewood Way
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they sang round Botnay Bay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
For my sanity, I'll pray
(Just the same as the verses)
Da fought the black and Tans
So did our Uncle Dan
Then there was Civil War
and we ne'er saw Dan anymore
We all have to walk to Cobh
A family of thriteen both young and old
Transport our poverty
To a room and a ditch 'cross the sea
Chorus
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they march in Amerikay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they dance down Cricklewood Way
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G
Where they sang round Botnay Bay
G Em
On Paddy's Day
F# G---------------G
For my sanity, I'll pray
For this next part the chords in brakets are played only shortly (rhythm-wise i mean)
the next chord.
Outro
B (G)A (F#)G (Em)F# (Em2)Em X2
Em F# G
St. Patrick's Day X2
Em F# G
On Patrick's Day X2
finish with an open strum (no chords) - well, i think it is anyway, or if you prefer D1.
Corrects or comments or whatever have you - contact me at [email protected]
Sláinte
Damso
Dan + Shay
Dan And Drum
Dan And Phil
Dan Andersen