Irish Rover chords by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
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Verse 1
(D major) In the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred and (G major) six,
We set (D major) sail from the Coal Quay of Cork (A major) (G major)
We were sailing (D major) away
with a cargo of (G major) bricks
For the grand (D major) City Hall (A major) in New (D major) York
We'd an elegant craft,
it was (G major) rigged 'fore and aft
And (D major) how the trade winds (E major) drove (A major) her
She had (D major) twenty- three masts and
she stood several (G major) blasts
And they (D major) called her the Irish (A major) Rover (D major)
Verse 2
There was (D major) Barney Magee from
the banks of the Lee (G major)
There was (D major) Hogan from County Tyr (A major) one
There was (D major) Johnny McGurk who
was scared stiff of (G major) work
And a chap (D major) from Westmeath
(A major) named Malone (D major)
There was Slugger O'Toole
who was (G major) drunk as a rule
And (D major) fighting Bill Tracy from (E major) Dover (A major)
And your (D major) man Mick McCann, from
the banks of the Ban (G major) n
Was the skipper (D major) on the Ir (A major) ish Rover
(D major)
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Verse 3
We had one million bags
of the best Sligo (G major) rags
We had two (D major) million barrells of (A major) bone (G major)
We had (D major) three million bales of
old nanny (G major) goats' tails
We had (D major) four million barrell (A major) s of (D major) stone
We had five million hogs and six (G major) million dogs
(D major) And seven million barrells of (E major) porter
We had (D major) eight million sides of
old blind (G major) horses' hides
In the (D major) hold of the Irish (A major) Rover
Verse 4
(D major) We had sailed seven years
when the measles broke (G major) out
And our (D major) ship lost her way in a fog (A major) (G major)
And (D major) the whole of the crew was
reduced down to (G major) two
'Twas my (D major) self and the
(A major) captain's old (D major) dog
Then the ship struck a rock,
oh, Lord (G major) what a shock (D major)
And nearly tumbled (E major) over
Turned (D major) nine times around then the
poor old dog was drowned (G major)
I'm the (D major) last of the Irish (A major) Rover (D major)
Irish Rover
The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
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