Chords for Paddy McGinty's Goat - Val Doonican

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_ [F#] Now Patrick [G] McGinty, an [C#] Irishman of note, Fell in [F#m] for a fortune and he bought himself a [G] goat,
Say, see, sure of goat's milk I'm going to have me fill, But [G#] when he brought the nanny home he found it was a bill.
All the young ladies [F#] who live in Killaloe, They're all wearing bustles like their mothers used to do,
[Em] They each wear a [F#] bolster beneath [G] their [C] [C#] petticoat, And leave [F#] the rest of [B] Providence and Panny [F#] McGinty's load.
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[C] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ [Bm] Mrs.
Burke to her daughter said, Listen [F#] Mary [G] Jane, Who [F#] was the lad you were cuddling in the [G] lane?
He longed where he whiskers a hanging [F#] from his chin, [C#] T'was only [F#] Panny McGinty's goat she answered with a [G] grin.
Then she went away [B] from the lady to squeeze, [F#] She came back with powder and paint upon her face,
[E] She'd [F#] rings on her fingers and she wore a sabre [A] coat, [C#] And eventually she [B] didn't get those from Panny McGinty's goat. _ _
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[F#] Now [G] Nora McCaffey the knot was [Cm] going to tie, [C#] She [F#] washed out her [C#] trousseau and she hung [F#] it out to dry,
[G#] Along came the goat and he saw [C] the bits of white, [C#] And chewed [F#] up all her folder, rubs upon her well [B]-night.
Oh, turn [F#] out the light quick, she shouted out to Pat, For though I'm your bride, sure I'm not worth looking at,
[E] I had [B] to have [F#] everything I told you when [Am] I wrote, [C#m] But now [F#] I'm running nothing, also [B] Panny [F#] McGinty's goat.
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[Cm] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] Mickey Riley he went to the races [Cm] of the day, [C#m] He won [F#] twenty dollars [C#] and he shouted hip [F#] hurray,
[B] He [F#] held up the note [C] shouting look at what I've got, [C#] The goat [F#] came up and grabbed [B] it and he swallowed up the lot.
He's eaten me banknote says Mickey [F#] with a hump, They went for the doctor and they got a stomach [E] pump,
They pumped [B] and they [F#] pumped for the twenty [A] dollar note, [C#] But all they [F#] got was ninepence [B] out of Panny [F#] McGinty's goat.
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[C] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ [G] Now old [F#] Panny's goat [G] had the wondrous [Cm] appetite, [C#] And one [F#] day for breakfast he had some dynamite,
[B] A big box of matches he [F] swallowed all serene, [C#] Then out he [F#] went and swallowed up a quarter [B] paraffin,
He sat by the fireside, he didn't give a hang, [F#] He swallowed a spark and exploded with a bang.
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[Em] So if you go to [G] heaven, _ [F#] you can [G] bet a [B] dollar note, _ [G] _ [F#] That the angel [G] with the whiskers on his Panny McGinty's goat, _
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