Indian Meal chords by 
Declan O'rourke 
N/A
Key: D major•
Verse 1
D
Well, up in the mountains
and down in the glens
The boilers are splashing
with Indian meal
From out of the scalps and the hovels
and dens
They follow the sound
of the bells as they peel
Indian meal, Indian meal,
Indian meal
Fightin' their way over Nexavel,
women and half -starvin' children
with elbows and fists
Stuffin' hodgepodge into can,
into noggin' and coughin'
and splutterin' back over the ditch
With bony old fingers on bony old pegs
They come with their tickets
Em
D
each day for the dreg s
Gatherin' the yellow in
tins and in pans
C
That's why children meet it in
D
ounces and pounds
Indian meal, Indian meal,
G
D
Indian meal
So what did they say with some
controversy?
He brung the potato from over the way
Well now for a review of the holy re main
C
D
An Indian meal is the dish of the day
Our lovely Prathia,
where have you gone?
You left us with nothing
Em
to bite our self on
D
The fishermen's nets
Em
Am
are all locked in the pond
D
And all that we catch is our
death in the morn
Oh, the milk and the butter
Em
D
and nobbly our lumber s
Were all that was needed
Em
to cure the pangs
D
Nev er be flutters, a dose of the scutters
If you don't cook it right
it'll give you the
Indian meal, Indian meal,
G
Em
D
Indian meal
Em
D
G
D
Em
D
G
D
In Dublin so fair,
take your hunger and warts
Em
The Quakers sell soup for a penny a quart
D
G
Your penny and ha 'pens will
D
Em
G
F
get your bread too
D
For to dunk in the yellow meal,
Indy and stew
There's ships leavin' full of pigs,
Ebdim
C
Em
heifers and lamb s
D
Some transportin' convicts
Em
to Van Diemen's land
D
Where hemorrhage and
battles are butter and grain
And all that comes back and all that remains
Is Indian meal, Indian meal,
Am
D
meal
Em
D
Am
G
D
They're paving the streets of America
Am
C
With gold at your feet for a dollar a day
D
While here on the works
Am
we make bohery and gwee
C
D
For the yeller are barely a shill and a pee
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