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The Old Triangle Lyrics And Chords, Brendan Behan. Although this song is credited to Brendan he didn't write it, it was written by a close friend of his, Dicky Shannon also from Dublin.It's about about being locked away in Mountjoy Jail which is situated beside The Royal Canal Dublin. another classic Dubliners with Luke Kelly on vocals.This one is not normally sang with music but I've put chords to it anyway.

A[G] hungry feeling,came o're me stealing,
And the[C] mice were[Em] squeeling in my[Am] prison[C] cell,
And the ould tri[G]angle,went jingle jangle,
All[C] along the[Em] banks of the[D] Royal Ca[G]nal.
 
To start the morning,the warden bawling,
Get you bousey and clean out your cell,
And the ould,,,,,
 
Oh the screw was peeping,and the loike was sleeping,
As he lay weeping for his girl Sal.
And the ould,,,,
 
On a fine spring evening,the loike lay dreaming,
And the seagulls were wheeling,high above the wall,
And the ould tr,,,,,,
 
Oh the wind was sighing,and the day was dying,
As the loike lay crying,in his prison cell,
And the ould,,,,,
 
In the woman's prison there are seventy women,
And I wish I was with them,that I did dwell.
And the ould,,,
 
 

o'donoghues pub
O'Donoghues Pub Dublin

The Auld Triangle Box Set Christy Moore Notes.
This track and the previous one showed
up when I put the word out that I was
intrested in any rare recordings that
might be lying around. The song has not
been in my set list since the 1960s.
However it somehow showed up on a Dublin
bootleg from the mid. 1980s. We all used
to sing this Brendan Behan classic in the
early days [probibly eary houses aswell]
I've song it a number of times in Mountjoy
Jail, though never on a Monday Morning
where it always gained an added relevance.
I beleive I was in McDaids once at a time
when Brendan Behan was there. I'm reminded
of the singer Des English who sang ''They
Tell Me Poor Brendan Is Dead'' when I played
his folk club at the back of Strangeways Jail
in Manchester in 1967.

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