Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
Matthew
Intro G7-C-F-Am-F-C-G-C
C | F | Am |
What are you thinking of | Matthew my | friend |
| C | Am | G |
As you | sit in your | room all a | lone |
| C | F | Am |
You can | see the bright lights in the | city be | low |
| C | G | C |
In the | place where you | once called your | home |
| F | C | Am |
And I'm | sure you can still hear the | laughter and | noise |
| C | G |
Of your | kids as they run and they | play |
| C | F | Am |
And you | thought you were doing the | best that you | could |
| C | G7 | C |
But it | just didn't | work out that | way |
Chorus:
F | G7 | C | Am |
Just didn't | work out, | just didn't | work out |
F | G | C |
Just didn't | work out that | way |
| F | C | Am |
You | thought you were doing the | best that you | could |
| C | G7 | C |
But it | just didn't | work out that | way |
| C | F | Am |
And your | mother's long gone and your | father is | too |
| C | Am | G |
There's | times you | wish you were | dead |
| C | F | Am |
And this | morning the nurse took your | whiskey a | way |
| C | G | C |
When she | said you're not | right in the | head |
| F | C | Am |
And | when your wife calls you can't | think of her | name |
| C | G |
And her | visits get shorter each | day |
| C | F | Am |
And you | wish in your heart you could | walk out that | door |
| C | G7 | C |
But it | just doesn't | work out that | way |
Chorus
| C | F | Am |
I can | see you've been thinking a | gain of the | past |
| C | Am | G |
And the | place where the | tall cedar | grows |
| C | F | Am |
You re | member the evening you | planted that | tree |
| C | G | C |
But I'm | sure that no | body elce | does |
| F | C | Am |
And it | grew to the sky as the | years drifted | by |
| C | G |
And I'm | sure it's still standing to | day |
| C | F | Am |
But | Matthew it's somebody | elces tree | now |
| C | G7 | C |
Cause it | just didn't | work out that | way |
Chorus
| C | F | Am |
So | close your eyes Matthew say good | night to the | world |
| C | Am | G |
There's a | better one | waiting for | you |
| C | F | Am |
Your | time here is over, it's | time to move | on |
| C | G | C |
There's | nothing here | left you can | do |
| F | C | Am |
But you | could have moved mountains and | danced on the | moon |
| C | G |
You | could have turned night into | day |
| C | F | Am |
And you | thought you were doing the | best that you | could |
| C | G7 | C |
But it | just didn't | work out that | way |
Chorus twice
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