Come On Eileen
Dexy's Midnight Runners • Key:
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Come On Eileen
Dexy's Midnight Runners
#Actually written by Rowland, Patterson and Adams (voice, trombone
#and banjo). Transcribed by MH from the 1982 album "Too-Rye-Ay".
#
#* the version released as a single in the UK was preceded
#by a few bars(measures) of a fiddle playing a traditional tune,
#"Oh Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms"
#** round brackets () denote BV (backing vocals)
#*** during instrumental sections, bar divisions are marked | and
#the main instrument is indicated in square brackets.
#First 16 bars are instrumental:
|F C |F Bb |Bb F |C | x2 (fiddle)
|C |Em |F |C G | x2 (fiddle and banjo)
C
Poor old Johnny R
Em
ay
Sounded
F
sad upon the radio moved a
C
million hearts in
G
mono
C
Our mothers cried
F
Sang along,
F
who'd blame them
C
G
C
You're grown (you're grown up),
Em
so grown (so grown up)
F
Now I must say more than ever
C
G
(come on Eileen)
C
Toora-loora-
Em
toora-loo-rye-
F
aye
and we can
C
sing just like our
G
fathers
Chorus
D
Come on Eileen oh, I
F#m
swear (well he means)
at this
Em
moment you mean
G
everyth
A
ing
With
D
you in that dress, my
F#m
thoughts (I confess)
verge on
Em
dirty, Ah come
G
on Eil
A
een
|A |A | (banjo)
|C |Em |F |C G | (fiddle and banjo)
C
These people round
Em
here
wear beaten-
F
down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces,
so res
C
igned to what their f
G
ate is
but
C
not us (no never) no
Em
not us (no never)
F
we are far too young and clever
C
G
remember
C
Toora-loora-
Em
toora-loo-rye-
F
aye
Eileen I'll
C
hum this tune for
G
ever
D
Come on Eileen, oh I
F#m
swear (well he means)
Ah come
Em
on let's take off
G
everyt
A
hing
That
D
pretty red dress, Ei
F#m
leen (tell him yes)
Ah come
Em
on let's, ah come
G
on Ei
A
leen
That
D
pretty red dress, Ei
F#m
leen (tell him yes)
Ah come
Em
on let's, ah come
G
on Eil
A
een
D
Please...
#Half-speed, getting gradually faster
D
(Come on Eileen too-loo rye-
F#m
aye come on)
#Backing vocals sing "Eileen too-loo rye-ay toora toora-too-loora" repeatedly
G
Now you have grown, now you have shown,
D
oh Eil
A
een
D
Come on Eileen, these things they are
F#m
real and I know
how you feel
G
Now I must say more than ever
D
things round here have
A
changed
D
Too-ra loo-ra
F#m
too-ra loo-rye-
G
aye
D
A
Speed