Chords for Dervish & Andy Irvine - The Rambling Siúler. Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2010

Well, _ _ it's a long time since this song had an airing.
It's called The Rambling Shuler _ and _ it's a very _ _ weird song.
It's about a [Ab] colonel who _ _ decided for a bet to dress up as a beggar
and go and try and get off with a farmer's daughter.
_ And he succeeds _ and he wins the bet and he wins the girl.
So, [N] _ _ _
yeah, it's a bit like a play.
Like, you know, the characters are the general, _ the colonel, also known as the beggar,
the farmer, the farmer's wife.
_ I get them all mixed up and that's why I'm telling you this because it usually_
If you find that the farmer is suddenly getting off with his own daughter,
it's just that I've mixed up the words.
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_ _ Well, the [G] colonel went to London town and landed in [C] headquarters.
_ _ [G] The colonel fell for a pretty [F] little girl, the [C] farmer's only [G] daughter.
The general bet five [F] thousand pounds [C] the colonel would dress up in a [G] beggar's _ gown. _ _
And [C] she'd travel the world around [F] and round would she [C] go with the Rambling Shuler.
Well, the [G] colonel started out next day.
He was dressed in a [C] beggar's clothing.
_ It wasn't [G] long till he found [F] his way to the [C] farmer's lonely [G] _
dwelling.
Oh, farmer, [C] shelter me [F] for the night.
[C] I'll sleep in your barn until [G] daylight.
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Take pity on a beggar's [F] awful plight.
God help [C] the Rambling Shulers.
Well, the [G] farmer says the night is wet.
You can come to the kitchen [C] fire. _
The colonel [G] says to the servant [F]
maid, it's [C] you I do [G] admire. _
Will you leave them [C] all and come [F] with me?
[C] _ Leave them [G] all and draw a plea.
_ [C] _ _ One of us stay beggar, you [F] would be away [C] with the Rambling Shuler.
Well, the [G] farmer and his servant all looked at each other with loud [C] laughter.
[G] When who came tripping down [F] the stairs with the [C] farmer's [G] only daughter?
She had two blue [C] eyes like the morning sky.
Soon as the beggar he did [G] her spy.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] She barely caught his rambling [F] eyes.
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_ _ [C] _ _ He threw his [G] arm around her [F] waist as he [C] sat by the kitchen _ [G] fire.
He threw his hand [C] upon her knee. _
Unto her he gave his [G] fist _ three.
_ _ [C] _ Says she, how dare you?
It's [F] so free and [C] it's you by the Rambling Shuler. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ When the servant was sober and low, the maid was wet in the barn.
_ _ Between two sacks and a [F] willow block, the [C] fear would eat you [G] hard.
But at twelve o'clock that [F] very night, [C] she came to the barn, she was [G] dressed in _ white.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ The garden [G] [F] looked like she's [C] mine, said the Rambling Shuler.
_ [Am] And [G] he drew up the beggar's clothes and threw them [C] against the _ wall.
He stood the [G] bravest _ [F] gentleman [C] that was amongst [G] them all.
Would you look at [C] my locks of golden hair under the silky old hat [G] I _ _ wear? _ _
[C] I'm a kind of old I [F] do declare, and it's [C] not the Rambling Shuler.
And I wouldn't pour one hundred pounds that [G] you and I might [C] be found here.
Will you travel around the [F] whole night long [C] and go with the Rambling [G] Shuler?
Then it's off to [C] the goodness house [F] she's gone, [C] _ great is the rage that he [G] has _ _ _ won.
_ [C] So here comes out with the pipe [F] and the drum, she's away [G] with the [C] Rambling Shuler. _ _
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