Key: D minor
Verse 1
Am
Johnny and McGee
C
Am
There was Johnny McAldoo
and McGee and me
C
And a couple or two or three
G
went on the street one day
C
Am
We had a bob or two
which we knew how to blew
C
And the beer and whiskey flew
G
C
and we all felt gay
Am
We visited McCann's,
Dm
G
McLamann's, Humpty Dan's
C
Am
We then went into Swan's,
Dm
G
our stomachs were to pack
C
Am
We ordered out a feed
which indeed we did need
C
And we finished it with speed
G
but we still felt slack
C
Am
Johnny Meckledood turned red,
white and blue,
C
And played the fiery stew
Am
C
Dm
G
he soon put out of sight.
C
Am
He shouted out in core
with a roar for some more,
C
That he never felt before
G
such a keen appetite.
C
Am
He ordered eggs and ham,
Dm
bread and jam, hot or cram,
G
C
Am
But him he couldn't ram,
Dm
G
though he tried his level best.
C
Am
For everything he brought,
cold or hot, mad he'd not,
C
It went down him like a shot,
G
C
but he still stood the test.
Am
Dm
So when he'd drive him lard by the yard,
G
he'd discard,
C
Am
He thought it would go hard
Dm
G
when the waiter robbed the bill.
C
Am
Reached out to dig a bore,
but he swore he could lore
C
Twice as much again
G
C
and more before he had his fill
Am
Nearly shoved the trough full of broth,
says Madra
C
He'll devour the tablecloth
Dm
G
if you don't hold him in
C
Am
When the waiter brought the charge,
Meckledoo felt so large
C
He began to scout and barge,
G
and his blood went fire
C
He began to curse and swear,
Dm
G
tear his hair in despair
C
Dm
To finish the affair,
C
called the shopman a liar
Am
Shopman he threw out,
and no doubt he did trounce
C
Meckledoo, he kicked about
G
like an old football
Am
Cathedral of Slough, Ruffa's nose,
I suppose
C
He would have killed him
if the few blows,
G
C
no time at all
To begin to howl and to
Dm
G
growl by myself
C
Dm
Threw an empty bowl
out the shopkeeper's head
C
Am
Stroke a picky fin,
peed the skin off his chin
C
Then the ruckus did begin
G
C
and we all fought and bled
Am
Peeled to the rhyme and I lied for a five
C
I thus made a drive for us
Dm
all to march away
G
Am
Paid for all the meat that we ate,
stopped the threat
C
Am
And went home to remanate
G
C
Am
C
F
On the spray that day you
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