A Rich Irish Lady chords by
Horton Barker
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Key: F minor
Verse 1
Em
Em

C
C

Em
Em

It just makes it so utterly fascinating to me how, you know,
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F#m

Em
Em

Gm
Gm

how these things are misre membered.
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F#

F#m
F#m

An d that's how I like to get things,
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you know.
Em
Em

G
G

C
C

G
G

I don't like these being clean and tidied or tidied up
D
D

C
C

G
G

Em
Em

F#
F#

G
G

F
F

by somebody who knows.
Em
Em

You know, you don't want anything
perfect, do you?
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F#

C#
C#

E#
E#

F#
F#

There was a rich lady from Lon don she came,
G
G

F#
F#

C#
C#

F#
F#

she was called Purdy Sally,
G#m
G#m

Purdy Sally by name.
G
G

F#
F#

Her wealth,
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C#

F#
F#

C#
C#

it was more than the king he possessed
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F#

Her beauty was more than
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G

her wealth at the best
C#
C#

F#
F#

G
G

C#
C#

There was a young doctor,
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F#

was living hard by,
G
G

F#
F#

G#m
G#m

G
G

Who on this fair maiden in love cast his eye.
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F#

He courted her nightly,
C#
C#

F#
F#

C#
C#

a year and a day,
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G

F#
F#

G
G

But still she refused him,
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F#

G
G

I've ever said name.
F#
F#

Oh Sally, dear Sally,
C#
C#

F#
F#

pretty Sally says he,
C#
C#

G
G

F#
F#

can you tell me the reason
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G#m

our love can't agree?
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F#

C#
C#

Your cruel and unkindness
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F#

C#
C#

my ruin will prove
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F#

Unless all your hatred will turn into love
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C#

F#
F#

I bear you no hatred, nor no other man,
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G

D
D

G
G

F#
F#

But truly to marry you I
G#m
G#m

nev er can.
C#
C#

Give over your courting,
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F#

C#
C#

I pray you be still,
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F#

For you are near Mary
Am
Am

G
G

of my own free will.
C#
C#

F#
F#

Twas soon after this,
C#
C#

F#
F#

G
G

ere a year had gone by,
D
D

Em
Em

G
G

Purdy Sally grew sick,
C#
C#

and she feared she would die.
G
G

F#
F#

So sent for the doctor
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C#

she once had refused.
G
G

Let's see. No, I haven't got that.
Pardon me a minute.
Start that verse again.
Let's see.
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C#m

F#
F#

C#
C#

C#m
C#m

F#
F#

G
G

Twa soon after this,
C#
C#

F#
F#

G
G

ere a year had gone by,
F#
F#

G
G

Purdy Sally grew sick,
F#
F#

G
G

and she feared she would die.
F#
F#

C#
C#

She tangled, was in love,
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F#

G
G

F#
F#

and her heart she disdained.
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G

Pardon me,
G
G

F#
F#

I'm afraid that's far as I can get with that.
G
G

Tell the rest of the story again, please.
Sally did grow sick,
but it wasn't a sickness
that the doctor,
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G

that the doctor could cure
unless it was a sickness that couldn't
be reached by medicine.
C
C

G
G

After she realized that she
had gone too far
and the doctor had really given her up,
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G

Bm
Bm

she
G
G

She realized that there was
Am
Am

nothing left in life for her,
Bb
Bb

so she pined away and sent
for the doctor.
He asked her if he was a doctor
whose skills she would try,
or was he the young man
she wanted to deny.
He says, yes, you're the doctor,
can kill or can cure.
Unless you'll help me,
C
C

I'm dying, I'm sure.
But he refused to come over,
Am
Am

and so he told her
that he never could forgive her
until his dying day,
but on her grave he danced
when she was laid in cold clay.
And she took some rings from
her fingers
and gave them to him,
gave the three rings,
and says,
take these and wear them
while dancing for me.

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