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Thousands Are Sailing

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The Pogues is a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and folk, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before breaking up in 1996.[1] The band reformed in 2001, and has been playing regularly ever since

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intro Gm - Gm - F - Cm
Gm - Bb - F - Cm - Bb

Bb
The island it is silent now
Eb
But the ghosts still haunt the waves
Bb Gm
And the torch lights up a famished man
Cm F
Who fortune could not save

Bb
Did you work upon the railroad
Eb
Did you rid the streets of crime
Bb Gm
Were your dollars from the white house
F Bb
Were they from the five and dime

Gm
Did the old songs taunt or cheer you
Eb Bb
And did they still make you cry
Gm
Did you count the months and years
Cm F
Or did your teardrops quickly dry

Bb
Ah no says he 'twas not to be
Eb
On a coffin ship I came here
Bb Gm
And I never even got so far
F Bb
That they could change my name

Dm
Thousands are sailing
F Cm
Across the western ocean
Bb Gm
To a land of opportunity
F Cm
That some of them will never see
Dm
Fortune prevailing
F Cm
Across the western ocean
Gm
Their bellies full
Bb
Their spirits free
F Cm
They'll break the chains of poverty
Eb Gm F Cm Bb-
And they'll dance

In Manhattan's desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on broadway
Like the first man on the moon

And the blackbird broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in Brendan Behan's footsteps
I danced up and down the street

Then we said goodnight to broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to mister Cohen
Dear old times square's favorite bard

Then we raised a glass to JFK
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried

Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards we're mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights don't glow on Christmas trees
Eb
But we dance to the music
Gm F Cm X2
And we dance

Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where e'er we go we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
And we dance