Key: C major
Verse 1
F
C
I sailed from out of Cork
F
Am
A
I wonder how from Erin's Isle
G
C
There wasn't a soul to greet me there,
F
C
a stranger on the shore
F
C
But Irish luck was with me here
Dm
G
and riches came galore
F
C
to dear old Erin's Isle
F
Am
A
My friends will meet me on the pier
D
G
and greet me with a smile
C
F
Am
But me mother will introduce them all,
Dm
G
C
and this to me she'll say
Shake hands with your uncle Mike,
me boy,
C
F
F#dim
C
And here's the girl you used
A
D
to swing down by the garden gate
G
C
Shake hands with all of the neighbours
C
F
Am
You're as welcome as the flowers in May
D
G
C
F#dim
C
D
G
to dear old Donegal
D
G
C
Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McGuffey, Malacky, Malone, Rafferty, Lafferty, Donnelly, Connelly, Dooley, O 'Hooley, Muldowney, Malone, Ryan, O 'Brien,
G
D
G
C
G
C
Herlanahan, Flanahan, Fagan, O 'Hagan, O 'Hoolahan, Flint, Shanahan, Manahan, Fogarty, Hogarty, Kelly, O 'Kelly, McGinnis, McGinn
Shake hands with your uncle Mike,
me boy,
C
F
C
And there's the girl you used to
A
D
swing down by the garden gate
G
C
Shake hands with all of the neighbours,
F
C
and kiss the collings all,
C
Dm
pain or itch and tear,
C
F
C
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