| HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY 2001 |
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FOR ME GROG
Chorus
Well it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog
It's all for me beer and tobacco
For I spent all me tin on the lassies drinking gin
Far across the western ocean I must wander
Where are me boots, me noggin', noggin' boots?
They're all gone for beer and tobacco
For the heels they are worn out and the toes are kicked about
And the soles are looking out for better weather
Chorus
Where is me shirt, my noggin', noggin' shirt?
It's all gone for beer and tobacco
For the collar is all worn, and the sleeves they are all torn
And the tail is looking out for better weather
Chorus
I'm sick in the head and I haven't been to bed
Since first I came ashore from me slumber
For I spent all me dough on the lassies don't you know
Far across the Western Ocean I must wander
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DANNY
BOY
F F Bb Bb
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
F F G C
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
F F Bb Bb
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
F C F C
'Tis you, 'tis you must go, and I must bide.
F Bb F C
But come you back when summer's in the meadow
Dm Bb F C C
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
F Bb F Dm
'Tis I'll be there in sunshine or in shadow
F C F C
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.
F F Bb Bb
But if you come, and all the flowers are dying
F F G C
And if I am dead, as dead I may well be
F F Bb Bb
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
F C F C
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.
F Bb F C
And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
Dm Bb F C C
And all my dreams shall warm and sweeter be
F Bb F Dm
If you will bend and tell me that you love me
F C F (C)
Then I will sleep in peace until you come to me.
F F Bb Bb
F F G C
F F Bb Bb
F C F C
F Bb F C
Dm BbF C C
F Bb F Dm
F C F C
Fairytale Of New York1 S.McGowen J Finer
G/D D G/D A7sus2/E D G/A D G
It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank
D G/A A D
An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song
G D
The Rare Old Mountain Dew And I turned my face away
G Asus4/E D G/A
And dreamed about you
D G
Got on a lucky one Came in eighteen to one
D G/A A
I've got a feeling This year's for me and you
D G
So happy Christmas I love you baby
D / / G Asus4/E D
I can see a better time When all our dreams come true
G/D D G/D A7sus2 /faster now/ D D D A D G A D
D A
They've got cars big as bars
Bm G
They've got rivers of gold
D
But the wind goes right through you
A
It's no place for the old
D Bm
When you first took my hand
D G
On a cold Christmas Eve
D
You promised me
A D
Broadway was waiting for me
D
You were handsome
You were pretty
A
Queen of New York City
D G
When the band finished playing
A D
They howled out for more
D
Sinatra was swinging
A
All the drunks they were singing
D G
We kissed on the corner
A D
Then danced through the night
G Bm A
The boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
D G
And the bells were ringing
A D A Bm G D D D A D Bm D G D D A D
Out for Christmas day
D
You're a bum
D
You're a punk
A
You're an old slut on junk
D G A
Living there almost dead on a drip
D
In that bed
D
You scum bag
You maggot
A
You cheap lousy faggot
D G
Happy Christmas your arse
A
I pray God
D
It's our last
G Bm A
The boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Still singing 'Galway Bay'
D G
And the bells were ringing
A D D D D G G G G D D D D A D
Out for Christmas day
A A D
I could have been someone
G
Well so could anyone
D
You took my dreams
A
From me when I first found you
D
I kept them with me babe
G
I put them with my own
D
Can't make it all alone
G A D D D D
I've built my dreams around you
G Bm A
The boys of the NYPD choir
D Bm
Were singing 'Galway Bay'
D”stop
And the bells were ringing
D D D D G G G G D D D D A D A A
Out for Christmas day
IRISH ROVER
In the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the coal quay of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand city hall in New York
We'd an elegant craft, it was rigged fore and aft
And how the trade winds did drive her
She had twenty-three masts and she stood several blasts
And they called her the Irish Rover
We had one million bags of the best Sligo rags
We had two million barrels of bone
We had three million sides of old blind horses hides
We had four million barrels of stone
We had five million hogs, six million dogs
Seven million barrels of porter
We had eight million bales of old nanny goats tails
In the hold of the Irish Rover
There was Barney Magee from the banks of the Lee
There was Hagan from County Tyrone,
There was Jimmy McGurk who was scared stiff of work
And a chap from Westmeath called Malone.
There was Slugger O'Toole who was drunk as a rule
And fighting Bill Treacy from Dover
And your man, Mick McCann from the banks of the Bann
Was the skipper of the Irish Rover
We had sailed seven years when the measles broke out
And our ship lost its way in the fog
The whole of the crew was reduced down to two
Just myself and the captain's old dog
Then the ship struck a rock, O Lord what a shock
And nearly tumbled over…
She turned nine times around and the poor old dog was drowned
I'm the last on the Irish Rover.
LET HIM GO, LET HIM TARRY
chorus:
Let him go, let him tarry, let him sink or let him swim;
He doesn't care for me, and I don't care for him
He can go and find another, and I hope she'll bring him joy
For I'm goin' to marry a far nicer boy.
Farewell to cold winter, now that summer's come at last;
Nothing have I gained, but my true love I have lost.
I'll sing and I'll be happy like a bird upon the tree
For since he deceived me, I care no more for he.
chorus
He wrote me a letter saying he was very bad,
I sent him back an answer saying I was very glad.
He wrote me another saying he was well and strong,
But I care no more for him than the ground he walks upon.
chorus
Some of his friends had a good kind wish for me,
Others of his friends, they could hang me from a tree;
But soon I'll let them see my love, and soon I'll let them know
That I can get a new sweetheart on any ground I go.
chorus
He can go to his old mother,now, and set her mind at ease,
For she's a mean old woman, and very hard to please,
It's slighting me and talking ill is all she's ever done
Since I was courtin' her great big ugly son.
chorus
E E A E
B B B E
E E A E
B B B A
MY IRISH MOLLY-O
Gm Gm Gm F Bb F Bb D
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Molly dear now did you hear, the news that's goin' round?
Gm Gm C F
Down in a corner of my heart, a love is what you've found.
Gm Gm Gm Dm Gm
And every time I look into your Irish eyes so blue.
Gm Gm Bb Cm D Gm
They seem to whisper 'Darling boy, my love is all for you.'
Chorus:
F Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb Bb Cm Cm
Oh Molly, my Irish Molly, my sweet acushla dear
D D Gm Gm C
I'm fairly off my trolley, my Irish Molly,
C F F
When you are near.
Bb Bb F F
Springtime, you know is ring time.
F F D D
Come dear and don't be slow,
Gm D Gm
Change your name, go out with game,
Gm C Bb F Bb D
Begorra wouldn't I do the same my Irish Molly O!
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Molly dear now did you hear I furnished up the flat.
Gm Gm C F
Three little cosy rooms with bath and a 'welcome' on the mat.
Gm Gm Gm Dm Gm
It's five pounds down and two a week, we'll soon be out of debt.
Gm Gm Bb Cm D Gm
It's all complete except, they haven't brought the cradle yet.
Chorus
Gm Gm Gm Gm
Molly dear now did you hear what all the neighbours say.
Gm Gm C F
About the hundred sovereigns you have safely stowed away.
Gm Gm Gm Dm Gm
They say that's why I love you. Ah but Molly that's a shame
Gm Gm Bb Cm D Gm
If you had only ninety-nine I'd love you just the same.
Chorus
RAGLAN ROAD
D D D G D A D D
On Raglan Road of an autumn day I saw her first and knew
G G D D D D A A
That her dark hair would weave a snare that I might one day rue.
G G D D D D A A
I saw the danger and I passed along the enchanted way
D D D G D A D D
and I said let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day.
D D D G D A D D
On Grafton Street in November we tripped lightly along the lay
G G D D D D A A
of a deep ravine where can be seen the worth of passions play.
G G D D D D A A
The queen of hearts still making tarts and I not making hay.
D D D G D A D D
Oh, I love too much and by such, by such is happiness thrown away.
D D D G D A D D
I gave her gifts of the mind I gave her the secret sign
G G D D D D A A
Known to the artists who have known the true Gods of sound and stone.
G G D D D D A A
And words and tint I did not stint, I gave her poems to say.
D D D G D A
With her own name there and her own dark hair like clouds over the fields
D D
of May.
D D D G D A D D
On a quiet street where old ghosts meet, I see her walking now
G G D D D D A A
away from me so hurriedly my reason must allow
G G D D D D A A
that I had loved not as I should a creature made of clay.
D D D G D A D D
When tha angel woos the clay he'll lose his wings at the dawn of the day.
D D D G D A D D
G G D D D D A A
G G D D D D A A
D D D G D A D D
SUNNYSIDE OF THE STREET by Shane MacGowan and Jem Finer
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[E] Seen the carni[A]val at Rome,
[E] Had the women I [A] had the [B] booze.
[E] All I can re[A]member now
[E] Is little kids with[A]out no [B] shoes.
So I [E] saw that train and [B] I got on it
With a [E] heartful of hate and a [A] lust for vomit.
Now I'm [E] walking on the [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
[E] [A] [E] [A]
[E] Stepped over bodies [A] in Bombay
[E] Tried to make it to the [A] U. S. [B] A.
[E] Ended up [A] in Nepal
[E] Up on a roof with [A] nothing at [B] all
And I [E] knew that [B] day
I was [E] going to [A] stay
Right where I [E] am, on the [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
[E] [A] [E] [A]
Solo On Verse Chords
[A] Been in a palace, and I've [E] been in a jail;
[A] I just don't want to be re[E]born a [B] snail.
Just [E] want to [B] spend
E[E]terni[A]ty
Right where I [E] am, on the [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
[E] [A] [E] [A]
As my [E] mother wept it was [B] then I swore
To [E] take my life as I [A] would a whore.
I [E] know I'm better [B] than before.
I will [E] not be recon[A]structed.
So I [E] stay right here on the [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
The [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
The [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
The [B] sunnyside of the [E] street.
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The Star of the County Down
Em C G D
Near to Banbridge Town, in the County Down
Em C Bm
One morning in July,
Em C G D
Down a boreen green came a sweet Colleen,
Em C Em
And she smiled as she passed me by;
G D
Oh, she looked so neat from her two white feet
G D
To the sheen of her nut-brown hair,
Em C G D
Such a coaxing elf, sure I shook myself
Em C Em
For to see I was really there
G D
Oh, from Bantry Bay up to Derry Quay,(Jay)
Em D
And from Galway to Dublin town,
Em C G D
No maid I've seen like the brown colleen
Em C Em Em Em Em Em
That I met in the County Down.
Em C G D
As she onward sped I scratched my head
Em C Bm
And I gazed with a feeling rare,
Em C G D
And I said, says I, to a passer-by,
Em C Em
"Who's the maid with the nut-brown hair?"
G D
He smiled at me, and he says says he,
G D
"That's the gem of Ireland's crown,
Em C G D
Young Rosie McCann from the banks of the Bann,
Em C Em
She's the Star of the County Down." CHORUS
Em C G D
At the harvest fair she'll be surely there
Em C Bm
And I'll dress in my Sunday clothes
Em C G D
And I'll try sheep's eyes, and deluding lies
Em C Em
On the heart of the nut-brown Rose.
G D
No pipe I'll smoke, no horse I'll yoke
G D
Now my plow it is rust colored brown,
Em C G D
Till a smiling bride by my own fireside
Unicorn Song Irish Rovers Shel Silverstein
F CF
F Gm
A long time ago when the earth was green
C F
There was more kinds of animals than you'd ever seen
F Bb
They'd run around free while the world was being born
F C F
But the loveliest of them all was the u--ni--corn
Chorus
F Gm
There was green alligators and long necked geese
C F
Some humpty back camels and some chimpanzees
F Bb
Cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born
F C F
The loveliest of all was the u--ni--corn
But the God seen some sinnin' and it caused him pain
He said "Stand back - I'm gonna make it rain
So hey brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do,
Build me a floating zoo."
Chorus
And you take some o them green alligators and long neck geese
Some humpty back camels and chimpanzees
Some cats, and rats, and elephants but sure as you're born
Don't you forget my u--ni--corn.
Old Noah was there and he answered the callin'
And he finished up the ark as the rain started fallin'
And he marched in the animals two by two
And he sung out as they went through
Chorus
"Hey Lord, I got you green alligators and long neck geese
Some humpty back camels and chimpanzees
Some cats, and rats, and elephants but Lord I’m so forlourn
I just can't see no u--ni--corns."
Then Noah looked out through the driving rain,
Them unicorns were hiding - playing silly games,
Kickin' and spashin' while the rain was pourin'
Oh them silly unicorns.
Chorus
There was green alligators and long neck geese
Some humpty back camels and chimpanzees
Noah cried close the doors cause the rain was pourin’
And we just can’t wait for no unicorns
The ark started moving it drifted with the tide,
Them unicorns looked up from the rocks and they cried,
And the water came down and sort of floated them away,
That's why you've never seen a unicorn to this very day.
Chorus
"You'll see green alligators and long neck geese
Some humpty back camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born
You're never
gonna see no u--ni--corns."
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
C Dm C Dm
There's a tear in your eye And I'm wondering why
With a smile in your heart is the loveliest part
C Dm C C#dim
For it never should be there at all
And it makes even sunshine more bright
Dm G7
With such power in your smile
Like the little sweet song
C Am
Sure a stone you'd bequile
Brooding all the day long
D7 G7
So there's never a teardrop should fall
Until laughter so tender and light
C Dm C Dm
When your sweet lilting laughter's like some fairy song
For the springtime of life is the sweetest of all
Gm C7 F
And your eyes twinkle bright as can be
And there’s never real care or regret
F F#dim Em A7
You should laugh all the while and all other times smile
For the springtime is ours throughout all of your hours
D7 G
And now smile a smile for me
For a smile each chance we get
C Fm C F C
When Irish eyes are smiling Sure'n it's like a morn in spring
F C A7 D7 G
In the lilt of Irish laughter You can hear the angels sing
C Fm C C7 F C
When Irish hearts are happy All the world is bright and gay
F F#dim C A7 D7 G7 C
And when Irish eyes are smiling Sure they steal your heart away
Wild
Rover
I've been a wild rover for many a year
And I spent all me money on whiskey and beer
But now I'm returning with gold in great store
And I never will play the wild rover no more
And it's no nay never...
No nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover
No never no more
I went into an
alehouse I used to frequent
And I told the landlady me money was spent
I asked her for credit, but she answered me, "Nay"
Such a custom as yours I can get any day.
Then out of me
pocket I took sovereigns bright
And the landlady's eyes opened wide with delight
She said, "I have the whiskey and wine of the best
And the words that I said, they were only in jest."
I'll go home to my
parents and confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And if they caress me as oft times before
Then I never will play the wild rover no more