Key: G major
Verse 1
C
A
D
G
D
G
As I sat at
my window one evening,
C
G
C
G
the mailman delivered to me
Abdim
Am
D
G
A little gilt -edged invitation, saying,
A
D
Won't you come over to tea?
C
B
I went just for old friendship's sake
C
A
And the first thing they served
Eb
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G
Was a slice of Miss O 'Leary's cake
D
G
There were plums and prunes
and cherries
A
G
Nutmeg, cloves, and berries,
A
D
and the icing was light as a dew
C
A
D
sure it was something an angel would bake
C
G
C
A
You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
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G
C
A
D
G
Miss O 'Leary's Irish Fruit Cake
D
G
Mr s. Milligan had twenty helpings,
though she weighed two
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G
hundred and four
Abdim
A
The cake made her
D
G
light as a feather,
A
D
ceiling and floor
Then she floated right
C
B
and met Timoror coming down
A
C
D
She said, let us have one slice together,
D
G
C
There were plums and prunes and cherries,
G
C
and citrons and raisins and cinnamon too
G
C
Nutmeg, cloves and berries,
Em
A
D
and the icing was light as a dew
sure it was something an
A
D
angel would bake
Bdim
G
C
A
You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
D
G
C
A
D
Miss O 'Leary's Irish fruitcake
C
G
an d smiling and blinking away
Abdim
D
Then she fell over
Then she said, Flanagan,
C
B
And Flanagan said, with a shake,
Baug
C
A
Sure, if this is a way that
you're servin'
Eb
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G
You can toss me ten slices of cake
There were plums and prunes
and cherries
D
G
And citrons and raisins and cinnamon,
too
A
G
Nutmeg, cloves, and berries
A
D
And the icing was light as the dew
C
A
sure it was something
C
G
C
A
You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
D
G
C
A
D
Miss O 'Leary's Irish fruitcake
G
D
G
A
I had sworn that I'd never be married,
G
Abdim
a bachelor forever I'd be
A
D
G
Until I went to the O 'Leary's
But my bachelorhood
C
B
One taste made me long for a wife
A
D
G
For that evening I asked Miss O 'Leary
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G
To do all of my baking for life
D
G
C
G
There were plums and prunes and cherries
G
C
Nutmeg, cloves and berries
Em
A
D
And the icing was light as the dew
D
G
spice in abundance
Em
A
D
Sure it was something an angel would bake
C
A
after eating a slice
D
Am
Of Miss O 'Leary's Irish
D
G
D
G
D
G
Fruitcake!
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