The Maid Of Fife-E-O chords by The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem
Verse 1
D
Bm
F#m
D
There once was a troupe of
Irish dragoons
Come marching down through
A
Fife -y -o
D
And the captain fell in love
G
with a very funny lass
D
A
And her name, it was called
Pretty
D
Peggy -o
Oh, come down the stairs, pretty
Peggy, my dear
Oh, come down the stairs, pretty
A
Peggy, oh
D
Oh, come down the stairs,
G
come back here, my dear
D
A
D
Bid a long farewell to your mammy, oh
I never did intend as a soldier's for
A
to be I never will marry a soldier, oh
D
I never did intend to gang
G
to a foreign land,
D
A
D
And I never will marry a soldier, oh!
Bm
A
The coroner, cried, mounts,
D
mounts by his mounts,
F#m
Bm
A
The captain, he cried, tarry, oh!
D
I'll tarry for a while,
G
for another day or two,
D
A
D
Till I see if this bunny lass will marry,
A
D
oh!
Long ere we came to the town of
Argyllas,
A
We had our captain to carry o 'er,
D
And long ere we reached the streets of
G
Argyll,
D
A
D
We had our captain to bury o 'er.
Green grow the birks on
Gwaneedon's side,
And low lie the lowlands of
A
Fifey
O.
D
The captain's name was
G
Ned, and he died for a mate,
D
G
He died for the chambermaid of
D
Fifey
A
D
A
G
O.
D
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