The Irish Rover chords by GAVIN COYLE

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Verse 1
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La -da -da, da -da -da -da,
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da -da -da -da -da
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La -da -da, da -da -da -da,
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na -na -na -na -na -na
In the year of our Lord, 1806
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We set sail from the Colgate Cork
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We were sailing away
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with our cargo of bricks
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For the Grand City Hall in New York
With an elegant craft
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she was rigged for a naft
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And oh, how the trade winds draw her
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She had twenty -three masts
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and she stowed several blasts
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And they called her the Irish Rover
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There was Barney McGee
from the banks of the Lee
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There was Hogan from
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County Jerome
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There was Johnny McGurk
who was scared stiff of work
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And a chap from West
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meath called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
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who was drunk as a rule
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And fightin' Bill Tracy from Dollar
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And your man, Mick McCann,
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from the banks of the Bann
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Was the skipper of the Irish Rover
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We had one million bags
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of the best Slego rags
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We had two million barrels of bone
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We had three million bales
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of old Nanny Gold's tales
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We had four million barrels of stone
We had five million hogs
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and six million dogs
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Seven million barrels of porter
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We had eight million sides
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of a blind horse's height
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In the hold of the Irish Rother
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We had sailed seven years
when the measles broke out
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And the ship lost her way in a fog
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And the whole of the crew
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was reduced down to two
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T 'was meself and the
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captain's old dog
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Then the ship struck a rock
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Lord, what a shock!
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And nearly tumbled over
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Turned nine times around
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And that poor old dog was drowned
Och, don't shout
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Oh, I'm the last of the Irish Rover
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