Limerick Rake chords by The Clancy Brothers

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Verse 1
Am 
C 
F 
C 
G 
Em 
Am 
C 
F 
C 
Em 
Am 
I am  a young fellow,
C 
F 
but sassy and bold,
C 
G 
In Castletown commerce
Em 
I'm very well known.
Am 
C 
F 
In Newcastle West I spent money and nought,
E 
Am 
Like Katie and Judy and Mary.
F 
My father rebuked me
C 
Em 
for being such a wreck,
G 
And spending wee time in
Em 
such colicsome ways.
Am 
I ne 'er can forget the
C 
F 
good nature of Jane
Am 
And it's foggin' me tune,
what a posh shame
If I chance for to go to the
C 
market of Crome
F 
C 
G 
With a tit to me hat
Em 
and me pipes in full tune
Am 
I'm made welcome at once
C 
and brought up to the Rome
F 
C 
Where Crackus is sport
E 
Am 
ing with Venus
There's Peggy and Jane
F 
C 
Em 
from the town of Pruirie
Am 
G 
And Biddy from Brough,
and we all on the spree
Em 
Am 
Such a homin' of luxe
C 
F 
there was about me,
C 
Em 
Agus fagom g'meith siúth
Am 
Em 
Am 
maith aghsé.
To quaddle for riches
C 
F 
I ne 'er was inclined,
C 
G 
For the greatest of misers
must leave them behind.
Em 
Am 
I'll purchase a cow
C 
F 
that will never run dry,
C 
Em 
E 
Am 
And I'll milk her by twisting her horn.
F 
C 
Em 
Don Laimer of Straunel had plenty of gold,
Am 
G 
And Devonshire's treasurer
Em 
is twenty times more
Am 
But he's laid on his back
C 
among nettles and stalls
F 
C 
Em 
And he's far from a maidservant,
Am 
Em 
Am 
but that's the
There, some say I'm foolish
C 
F 
and some say I'm wise
C 
Gm 
In Flanders, the women,
G 
Em 
I  think, did no crime
Am 
For the son of King David
C 
had ten hundred wives
F 
C 
And his wisdom was highly regarded
Am 
F 
C 
Em 
I'll tell of a garden and live at my age
Am 
G 
And each woman and child
Em 
can partake of the same
Am 
If they swore on the cabin
C 
themselves they can blame
F 
C 
Em 
Christ father made sure
Am 
Em 
Am 
of a cachet
Am 
F 
And now for the future I mean to be wise
G 
And I sent for the women
Em 
who acted so kind
Am 
And I'll marry them all
Am 
C 
F 
and the morrow bind by
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Em 
E 
Am 
If the clergy agree to the bargain
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C 
Em 
When the devil he comes my soul for to take
Am 
G 
All the women will gather to cry in my wake
Em 
Am 
And the sons and their daughters
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F 
will offer their prayers
Am 
To the Lord and the soul of their father