Tablature come on eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

          



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  From: eermih@dct.ac.uk

  

  Someone recently requested this so here's my version.  Suggestions or

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  Come On Eileen      by Dexy's Midnight Runners

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  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]

  

  <VERSE 1>

  C                Em

  Poor old Johnny Ray

          F                          C                 G

  Sounded sad upon the radio moved a million hearts in mono

  C

   Our mothers cried

  F           F                 C        G

  Sang along, who'd blame them

  C                               Em

  You're grown (you're grown up), so grown (so grown up)**

  F                             C        G

  Now I must say more than ever            (come on Eileen)

  C           Em            F

  Toora-loora-toora-loo-rye-aye

             C                  G

  and we can sing just like our fathers

  

  |G C G C |GGC G C |G GGGGGG|     [brass section]

  

  <CHORUS>

  D                    F#m

  Come on Eileen oh, I swear (well he means)

          Em              G      A

  at this moment you mean everything

       D                     F#m

  With you in that dress, my thoughts (I confess)

           Em             G     A

  verge on dirty, Ah come on Eileen

  

  |A       |A       |   [banjo]

  

  |C       |Em      |F       |C   G   |    [fiddle and banjo]

  

  <VERSE 2>

  C                  Em

  These people round here

              F

  wear beaten-down eyes sunk in smoke-dried faces,

        C                    G

  so resigned to what their fate is

      C                    Em

  but not us (no never) no not us (no never)

  F                                C       G

  we are far too young and clever             remember

  C           Em            F

  Toora-loora-toora-loo-rye-aye

              C                 G

  Eileen I'll hum this tune for ever

  

  |G C G C |GGC G C |G GGGGGG|     [brass section]

  

  <CHORUS>

  D                    F#m

  Come on Eileen, oh I swear (well he means)

          Em                G     A

  Ah come on let's take off everything

       D                   F#m

  That pretty red dress, Eileen (tell him yes)

          Em                G    A

  Ah come on let's, ah come on Eileen

       D                   F#m

  That pretty red dress, Eileen (tell him yes)

          Em                G     A

  Ah come on let's, ah come on Eileen

  D

  Please...

  

  <half-speed, getting gradually faster>

  D                            F#m

   (Come on Eileen too-loo rye-aye come on)

  

                      G                                      D      A

  (Eileen too-loo rye-aye  toora    toora-too-loora)

                      Now you have grown, now you have shown, oh Eileen

  D                                                F#m

  <BVs as before>

  Come on Eileen, these things they are real and I know    

                     G

  how you feel       Now I must say more than ever 

  D                       A 

   things round here have changed

  D             F#m            G           D     A

  Too-ra loo-ra too-ra loo-rye-aye

  

  <fade on repeats of chorus>

  

  ___________________________________________________________________

  Malcolm Hannah (eermih@dct.ac.uk)                  Dundee, Scotland

  

   


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 Come on eileen, de Dexys midnight runners 

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