The Stone Outside Dan Murphys Door chords

by Foster & Allen

The Stone Outside Dan Murphys Door was written by John Francis Patterson - an Irish singer, songwriter and circus entertainer.
This cover by Foster & Allen is featured on their album, Foster & Allen's Ireland.
Music: Key of F Major → (key change) → G major in 3/4 time at 164 bpm (♩)
Chords: F, B♭, Gm, C, C7, Dm, G, Am, D, D7, Em

The Stone Outside Dan Murphy's Door

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              F           Bb     Gm     C7           F
Intro: 3/4 ‖     |  𝄎  |      |      |      |  𝄎  |     |  𝄎  ‖

             F                         Gm
1. There's a sweet gar-den spot in our mem-‘ry
            C7                        F
   It's the place we were born in and reared
       F                        Gm
  ‘Tis long years a-go since we left it
          C7                          F
   But re-turn there we will if we're spared
       C                           Dm
   Our friends and com-pan-ions of child-hood
            G7                          C    C7
   Would as-sem-ble each night near the store
         F                        Bb           Gm
   Round Dan Murphy's shop oh how oft-en we’ve sat
          C7                            F
   On the stone that stood out-side his door

              F                          Gm
Chorus: Those days in our hearts we will cher-ish
            C7                        F
        Con-ten-ted al-though we were poor
                F                           Bb           Gm
        And the songs that were sung in the days we were young
               C7                           F
        On the stone out-side Dan Mur-phy's door

            F                         Gm
2. When our day's work was o-ver we'd meet there
          C7                    F
   In the win-ter or spring the same 
       F                         Gm
   The boys and the girls all to-geth-er
         C7                      F
   Would join in some in-no-cent game
       C                            Dm
   Dan Mur-phy would bring down his fid-dle
             G7                           C    C7
   While his daugh-ters looked af-ter the store
       F                           Bb             Gm
   The mu-sic would ring and sweet songs we would sing
          C7                           F
   On the stone out-side Dan Mur-phy's door

              F                          Gm
Chorus: Those days in our hearts we will cher-ish
            C7                        F
        Con-ten-ted al-though we were poor
                F                           Bb           Gm
        And the songs that were sung in the days we were young
               C7                           F
        On the stone out-side Dan Mur-phy's door
                                                   
            F           Bb     Gm     C7          F        D7
 Instr:  ‖     |  𝄎  |      |      |     |  𝄎  |     | (key change) ‖

          G                             Am
3. Back a-gain will our thoughts oft-en wan-der
          D7                         G
   To the scenes of our child-hood's home
       G                           Am
   The friends and com-pan-ions we left there
          D7                     G
   It was pov-er-ty caused us to roam
         D                         Em
   Since then in this life we have pros-pered
           A7                          D    D7
   But now still in our hearts we feel sure
       G                          C        Am
   For mem-‘ries will fly to the days gone by
           D7                          G
   And the stone out-side Dan Murphy's door

              G                          Am
Chorus: Those days in our hearts we will cher-ish
            D7                        G
        Con-ten-ted al-though we were poor
                G                           C            Am
        And the songs that were sung in the days we were young
               D7                           G 
        On the stone out-side Dan Mur-phy's door...

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