None of them
Open to any changes. This is my interpretation of the song from watching some of their videos where they play
it live and by listening to it.
The fingerpicking pattern I have been using is picking bass note followed by 32123.
So G chord would be picked 632123
C chord 532123
D chord 432123
Most of the chords are picked for 2 patterns before changing.
Intro
G G C D
G G C D*
Verse 1
G C
She put it right between my lips and I bit down with the light
G D
And I asked her had she anything and she handed me a light
G C
And with that light I took a drag and I watched the world go by
G D G
You were mine and I was yours and our limit was the sky
Chorus
G C G
And we watched, the time go by
D
Well I told her ask me anything, and she asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Verse 2
G C
Well we cantered on by the statue where once Phil Lynott stood
G D
Met by a scobe being hoisted outside Mary's Pub
G C
We'd never seen the like before, a rare scene so daft
G D G
The cobbles were lit up by the enchantment of your laugh
Chorus
G C G
And we watched, the time go by
D
Well I told her ask me anything, and she asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Verse 3
G C
Well we watched the buskers play a tune on lower Grafton Street
G D
And I tried to grab your finger but I wasn't so discrete
G C
You smiled, embraced my hand and pulled me into some old bar
G D G
We drank a drop and we twirled and talked about our lives so far
Chorus
G C G
And we watched, the time go by
D
Well I told her ask me anything, and she asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Verse 4
G C
He swallowed down his last drop and began to feel the heat
G D
And he gestured to the barman that it was his time to leave
G C
With a cap upon his head he thought of home in Skibbereen
G D G
He said we were the finest couple that his eyes had ever seen
Chorus
G C G
And we watched, the time go by
D
Well I told her ask me anything, and she asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Bridge
G C
G C
G C
G D G
Verse 5
G C
Now she boards her plane back to her home in Amsterdam
G D
She'll study for the year before returning to our land
G C
She said she loves a man and he is stationed far away
G D G
With him her precious love she says forever it will stay
Chorus
G C G
And we watched, the time go by
D
Well I told her ask me anything, and she asked me how to cry
G C
And when I think of you I know forever I will be
G D G
Happy as the fool because together we are free
Outro
G C
G D
G C
G D G
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