Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Oh, my name it is Nell,
and the truth for to tell
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which I'll never deny
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I had a fine drake,
and I die for his sake
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That my grandmother left me,
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The dear little fellow,
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his legs they were yellow
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He could fly like a swallow,
grace his white cabbage,
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my beautiful drake.
Now his neck it was green,
almost fit to be seen,
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of the highest degree.
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His body was white,
and it would you delight,
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He was plump, fat, and heavy,
and brisk as a bee.
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He was wholesome an d sound,
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he would weigh twenty pound,
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But look to the robber,
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That murder'd Nell Flaherty's
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beautiful drake.
May his spade never dig,
may his sow never pick,
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be well thriced with the flail,
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May his door never latch,
may his roof have no thatch,
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May his turkeys not hatch,
may the rats eat his mail.
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Cork to Dun Laoghaire
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Dip him snug and air y in river or lake,
they may dine on the snout
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Nell Flaherty's drake.
May his pig never grunt,
may his cat never hunt,
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May a ghost ever haunt him
may his horse never neigh,
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May his goat fly away like an owl -paper kite,
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That the flies and the fleas,
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make him shiver and shake,
raise the bumps fast and thick,
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Nell Flaherty's drake.
Well, the only good news that I have to infuse
is
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That old Paddy Hughes and
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young Anthony Blake,
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They each have a grandson
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of my darling Drake.
And one I must get
or else I'll run crazy,
So ends the whole song of
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Nell Flaherty's drake.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F G Am
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