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[Verse]
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The streets of New York would be cold in the winter,
GD
There's a millon foot prints in the snow,
GC
An old man roasting chestnuts, and a young Uilleann piper,
GD
Who plays so easy and slow.
CG
And all the young lovers who pull up in taxis,
D
For flowers to make their love last.
GCGD
White Rose for new love, and Red Rose for true love.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
GC
The young piper's family, they come from Boncrana,
GD
He knows places that she used to know,
GC
And it sounds so familiar, it could have been yesterday,
GD
Although its a lifetime ago.
CG
She remembers her true love, the night that she left him,
D
And the sadness when they saw each other part.
GCGD
White Rose for new love, and Red Rose for true love.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
GC
The world is a small place, in New York at Christmas,
GD
And everybodys, everybodys friend.
GC
She sells all her flowers, she might by a ticket,
GD
And go back to Boncrana again.
CG
And all the young lovers who pull up in taxis,
D
For flowers to make their love last.
GCGD
White Rose for new love, and Red Rose for true love.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
GC
She returned on vaction, to visit relations,
GD
And the love she left standing on the quay.
GC
But now he wears a band of gold, on a finger she once thought her own.
GD
Disheartened once more she must run.
CG
She might have liked to stay, but her memory would betray,
D
The words deep within her heart.
GCGD
The wind blew on the Galway Bay, once more she must sail away.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
CG
And all the young lovers who pull up in taxis,
D
For flowers to make their love last.
GCGD
White Rose for new love, and Red Rose for true love.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
CG
And all the young lovers who pull up in taxis,
D
For flowers to make their love last.
GCGD
White Rose for new love, and Red Rose for true love.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
GDG
Violets for love of the past.
(D PEAT TO FDE )