G
Countless ships of heads and faces
                           D
Steam up along theh broomilaw
        G           C9
Into greenock and port glasgow the
                D       G
starving Irish shoal ashore

   G                               C9
No pledge to shelter our huddles masses,
                      C      D
No lady lies waiting in the bay
 G                           C9              G
Hunger is a great force in keeping down Our wages
                             D       G
But we're hungry enough to take any pay

G
Factory workers,potato pickers
                          D
Down the pit down on your way
G
No sanitation,Worse ventilation
G                            D
Twenty-one to a room and a fifteen hour day

      G
We brought skill and we brought our vision
                                    D
We brough ambition and tradition aswell
G
We cant change the past but we'll help shape the future
                                      D
The Irish Will Rise from our poverty hell

G
Theres tension rising in the dockyard
                             D
To drive us back across the sea
G             C
Riots in the town of greenock
G                         D      G
Only fuel the flames of their bigotry

G
But the irish changed the situatuion
                       C          D
Like a phenoix rising from the flames
          G
From desperation there came celebrfation
                D       G
Glasgow celtic was the name

G
Another cindarella story
                           D
A fairytale that must be heard
G
Another song of rags to ritches
                        D          G
A brave new start in a brand new world

G
Countless ships of heads and faces
                           D
Steam up along theh broomilaw
         G        C9
Into greenock and port glasgow the
                 D       G
starving Irish shoal ashore