Paddy McGinty's Goat chords by 
Foster & Allen 
N/A
Key: G major•
Verse 1
G
C
C#dim
Dm
G
C
Now Patrick McGinty,
C#dim
an Irish man of note
Dm
G
Fell in for a fortune
Dm
G
and he bought himself a goat
C
Says he's sure of goat's milk
I'm going to have me fill
C#dim
Dm
G
But when he brought the nanny home
C
he found it was a bill
All the young ladies who
live in Kildaloe
G
They're all wearing buses
like their mothers used to do
F
C
They each wear a bolster
G
C
beneath their petti coat
C#dim
Dm
G
And leave the rest to Providence
C
and Paddy McGinty's
G
C
C#dim
Dm
goat
G
C
Mrs. Bourke to her daughter said,
C#dim
listen Mary Jane
Dm
G
Who was the lad
Dm
you were fud dling in the lane
G
C
He had long wavy whiskers,
C#dim
a hint from his chin
Dm
G
It was only Paddy Mc Ginty's coat,
C
she answered with a grin
Then she went away from
the village in disgrace
G
She came back with powder
and paint upon her face
F
C
Ring s on her fingers
G
and she wore a sable coat
C
C#dim
Dm
You can bet her life
G
she didn't get those
C
C#dim
Dm
from Paddy McGinty's coat
G
C
Well, Nora McCarty,
C#dim
the knot was caught a -tie,
Dm
G
She washed out her throes,
Dm
so that she hung it out to dry.
C
Along came the goat,
C#dim
and he saw the bits of white,
Dm
G
And shewed up all her folderalls
C
upon her wedding night.
Turned out the light,
which she shouted out to Pat,
G
For though I'm your brager,
a knot worth looking at.
F
C
G
I had two of everything I told
C
you when I wro te,
Dm
G
But now I've won the knot,
C
C#dim
Dm
and not so funny me yet is God.
G
C
Mickey Ri ley,
he went to the races the other day
C#dim
Dm
G
He won twenty dol lars
Dm
D
G
and he shouted leper -ay
C
He held up the note
C#dim
shouting look at what I've got
Dm
G
Along came the goat
C
and he swal lowed up the lot
He's eaten me banknotes
as Mickey went to hump
G
They went for a doctor
and he got a stomach pump
F
C
They pumped and they pumped
for the twenty dollar note
C#dim
Dm
G
But all they got was six minutes
C
out of Paddy McGinty's
C#dim
Dm
goat
G
C
Now old Paddy's goat
C#dim
had a wondrous appet ite
Dm
G
And one day for breakfast
Dm
G
he had some dynam ite
C
A big box of matches
C#dim
he swallowed all se rene
Dm
G
Then out he went and swal
C
lowed up a quart of paraffin
Sat by the fireside he didn't give a hang
G
He swallowed a spark
and exploded with a bang
F
C
So if you go to heav en
G
C
you can bet a dollar note
Dm
That the angel with the
G
C
whiskers on his tummy
F
C
G
C
may get his gourd.
C#dim
Dm
G
C
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G
C
C#dim
Dm
F
D
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