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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">The Banks of the Royal Canal</h1>
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  16 <p>Brendan Behan<br />
  17 Recorded by Bob Dylan and The Band during <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">The Basement Tapes</a>
  18 sessions (1967)<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21 <p>Em' = xx5450</p>
  22
  23 <p>The recording is much more jingle-jangly than this tab can convey. To
  24 get that full effect, you'd need a full band of individualists who are
  25 not quite certain about the tune. That's what Dylan had. If you're
  26 less resourceful, you can approach that effect by inserting the
  27 D-A-G-D turn (or hints of it) here and there where there's a long D.</p>
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  31 <pre class="verse">
  32 D
  33
  34   D      G  D                  G   D
  35 A hungry feeling, came o'er me stealing
  36        G    A    D               Em'    G  A
  37 As the mice were squealing in my prison cell
  38          D   A  G  D        D  A   G  D
  39 And that old triangle, went jingle jangle
  40     G         D            A       D
  41 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  42 </pre>
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  44 <pre class="verse">
  45 To begin the morning, with the water boiling
  46 Get out of bed, clean up your cell
  47 And the old triangle, went jingle jangle
  48 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  49 </pre>
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  51 <pre class="verse">
  52 On a fine spring evening the lag lay dreamin'
  53 The sea-gulls beamin' high above the wall
  54 And that old triangle, goes jingle jangle
  55 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  56 </pre>
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  58 <pre class="verse">
  59 The screw was peepin' and the lag lay sleapin'
  60 As he lay there weeping for his good gal Sal.
  61 And the old triangle, went jingle jangle
  62 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  63 </pre>
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  66 In the female prison there are seventy women
  67 and it's with all of them where I'd like to dwell
  68 And the old triangle, would go jingle jangle
  69 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  70 </pre>
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  72 <pre class="verse">
  73 Ah, the day was dying and the lag was sighing
  74 As I lay cryin' in my prison cell
  75 And that old triangle, went jingle jangle
  76 All along the banks of the Royal Canal.
  77 </pre>
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