Magdelen Laundries lyrics and chords
This song was written by Joni Mitchell and recorded by Christy Moore. It's not one of Christy's most popular songs, as of July 2015 the top youtube version only received just over 7,000 views. Christy continues to preform this song at his live shows. The Magdelen Laundries were the only place in Ireland that took in women and girls who had children out of wedlock . They would work in the laundries to earn their keep.
G[G]joannie was an umarried girl just turned twenty seven
when thay[G] sent her to the sisters because of the way men[Em] looked at her
[C branded as a jezabel she knew she[Em] was not bound for heaven
she had[C] been cast in shame into the[D] magdelen[G] launderies
most girls went there pregnant [Em]some by there own fathers
[G] bridget got her belly from the[Em] parish priest
there trying to[C] get things white as snow
all those[Em] woe begotten daughters
in the[C] streaming stains of the[D] magdelen[G] laundries
[C] prostitutes and destitutes and[Em] temptresses like joanie
[C] fallen woman sentenced to[Em] dreamless drudgery
[C] why do thay call this heartless place our[Em] lady of charity-of[C] charity
[G]does bloodless brides of jesus if thay could[Em] just once glimpse there groom
[G]thay drop the stones concealed behind there[Em] rosaries
[C]thay wilt the grass thay walk upon,thay[Em] leech light out of a room
they,d like to[C] wash those girls down the[D] drains of the magdlen laundries
[G]peg o Connell died today she was a[Em] cheeky girl
thay stuffed her in a hole
[G] surely to god you,d think at least some[Em] bells should ring
[C] joanie thinks she,l die there to,and thay,l[Em] tramp her in the dirt
like[C] some lame bulb that never will bloom when the[Em] springtime comes
when the[C] spring time comes
when thay[G] sent her to the sisters because of the way men[Em] looked at her
[C branded as a jezabel she knew she[Em] was not bound for heaven
she had[C] been cast in shame into the[D] magdelen[G] launderies
most girls went there pregnant [Em]some by there own fathers
[G] bridget got her belly from the[Em] parish priest
there trying to[C] get things white as snow
all those[Em] woe begotten daughters
in the[C] streaming stains of the[D] magdelen[G] laundries
[C] prostitutes and destitutes and[Em] temptresses like joanie
[C] fallen woman sentenced to[Em] dreamless drudgery
[C] why do thay call this heartless place our[Em] lady of charity-of[C] charity
[G]does bloodless brides of jesus if thay could[Em] just once glimpse there groom
[G]thay drop the stones concealed behind there[Em] rosaries
[C]thay wilt the grass thay walk upon,thay[Em] leech light out of a room
they,d like to[C] wash those girls down the[D] drains of the magdlen laundries
[G]peg o Connell died today she was a[Em] cheeky girl
thay stuffed her in a hole
[G] surely to god you,d think at least some[Em] bells should ring
[C] joanie thinks she,l die there to,and thay,l[Em] tramp her in the dirt
like[C] some lame bulb that never will bloom when the[Em] springtime comes
when the[C] spring time comes
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