These are chords by Sheena Mullan on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard
[Verse 1]
D Am C
I’m ninety miles from Dublin
G D G D
Town I’m in a H-Block cell
D F#m G
To help you understand me
D Am G
plight this story now I’ll tell
D F#m G D
I’m on the Blanket Protest
Am G
my efforts must not fail
D Am C
For I’m joined by men and women
G D G D
in the Kesh and Armagh Gaol
[Verse 2]
D Am C G
It all began one morning
D G D
I was dragged to Castlerea
D F#m G
And though it was three years
D Am G
ago it seems like yesterday
D F#m G D
For three days kicked and beaten
Am G
I then was forced to sign
D Am C G
Confessions that convicted me
D G D
of deeds that were not mine
[Verse 3]
D Am C
Sentenced in the Diplock
G D G D
courts my protest it began
D F#m G
I could not wear this prison
D Am G
gear I was a Blanket Man
D F#m G D
I’ll not accept the status
Am G
I’ll not be criminalised
D Am C G
That’s the issue in the Blocks
D G D
for which we give our lives
[Verse 4]
D Am C G
Over there in London Town
D G D
how they’d laugh and sneer
D F#m G D
If they could only make us wear
Am G
their loathsome prison gear
D F#m G
Prisoners of War that\'s what
D Am G
we are and that we must remain
D Am C
The Blanket Protest must not
G D G D
end till status we regain
[Verse 5]
D Am
I’ve been beaten round the
C G D
romper room because
G D
I won’t say sir
D F#m
I\'ve been Frogmarched down
G D
the landing and dragged
Am G
back by the hair
D F#m G D
I’ve suffered degradation
Am G
humility and pain
D Am C G
Still spirit does not falter
D G D
british torture is in vain
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[Verse 6]
D Am C G
I’ve been held in scalding water
D G
while me back with deck
D
scrubs was torn
D F#m
I\'ve been scratched and cut from
G D
head to foot and thrown out
Am G
on the floor
D F#m G D
Suffered mirror searches and
Am G
probed by drunken bears
D Am C
I’ve heard my comrades’ cry and
G D G D
scream and utter useless prayers
[Verse 7]
D Am C
Now with the news that’s coming
G D G D
in the Protest must not fail
D F#m G
For now we\'re joined by thirty
D Am G
girls in Armagh Womens Gaol
D F#m G D
So pay attention Irishmen
Am G
and Irishwomen too
D Am C G
Show the Free State rulers
D G D
their silence will not do
[Verse 8]
D Am C
Though its ninety miles from Dublin
G D G D
Town it seems so far away
D F#m G
There\'s more attention to our
D Am G
plight in the USA
D F#m G D
Now you’ve heard the story of
Am G
this filthy living hell
D Am C G
Remember ninety miles away
D G D
still in an H-Block cell