From: eermih@dct.ac.uk

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

discussions welcomed.

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:

	fiddle
\|F C \|F Bb \|Bb F \|C \| x2	***

	fiddle and banjo
\|C \|Em \|F \|C G \| x2

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

	brass section
\|G C G C \|GGC G C \|G GGGGGG\|

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

	banjo
\|A \|A \|

	fiddle and banjo
\|C \|Em \|F \|C G \|

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

	brass section
\|G C G C \|GGC G C \|G GGGGGG\|

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...

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

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

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

Source: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/d/dexys_midnight_runners/come_on_eileen_crd.htm