Key: A minor•
Verse 1
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Have you
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heard
of Phil the Flute?
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The times were going hard for him,
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So he sent an invitation to his neighbours,
one and all,
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As to how he'd like their company
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that evening at a ball.
And when writing out,
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he was careful to suggest to them
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his convenient to the door,
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The more they put in,
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whenever he requested them,
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for battering the floor
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and the twiddle on the fiddle -o
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like a heron on the griddle -o
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F#dim
and crossing to the wall
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Oh, and with the gaity
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it filled the flutter's ball
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who kept the running dog
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There was Licky, Crook and Handy
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and girls from every art
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And the beautiful Miss Brady's
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in a private -assin' cart
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was also to the fore
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Rose Cezanne and Margaret Rafferty
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The flower of Arden -a -Gullion
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and the tweedle on the fiddle -o
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and crossin' to the wall
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Oh hadn't we the gaiety,
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Dm
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it filled the flutter's ball
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got up to show them how
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steps up to take her bow
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till she assures you were born
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If you'll only make the piper
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play the hare was in the corn
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be st of his ability
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begin to do their share
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Faith and Mick, tis you that has agility
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and the twiddle on the fiddle -o
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and crossin' to the wall
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And with a giddy it filled the flutist's ball
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and a twiddle on the fiddle -o
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and crossin' to the wall
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And with a giddy it filled the
With a toot on the flute
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and a twiddle on the fiddle -o
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like a heron on the griddle -o
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Abdim
across and to the wall
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Bm
Sure hadn't we the gaiety
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Bm
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at Filbert's Looters' Ball?
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