Come On Eileen

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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:

|F   C   |F   Bb  |Bb  F   |C       |   x2   [fiddle]***

|C       |Em      |F       |C   G   |   x2   [fiddle and banjo]




 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]


 

  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]


  

   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]


   

    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