Chords for Phil The Fluters Ball - Brendan O'Dowda

[N] The stories may vary about what [G#] happened in [A#] this modern stone [D#] hut here, [A#] but Percy French's version
[D] went something like this.
He [G] said, _ [B] and I'm quoting him verbatim by the [G] way,
[D#] I was staying in Dromitian at the time, which is the godly's home near [G] Carragallan. _
_ [B] One evening the Reverend James Godley came in after one of [G] his long walks _ and told me how he
had met the local flute player [G#] and how he [G] had paid his rent.
_ _ _ [A] I've paid [A#] up all me arrears,
_ [G] says Phil the flutist, for as you may have guessed it was [C#] himself that was in it.
_ [G] And how did you manage that, says [Gm] reverence?
Well I give a ball, says Phil.
_ A ball,
said his reverence.
[C]
Now if my family asked me to give a ball I'd have to put [G] my hand in my pocket
and I think I'd keep it there, he added [B] thoughtfully.
Ah well, said Phil, _ you'd make a
hole in a couple of pound giving your kind of ball, [Cm] for you'd have to have a young [B] lady to play
the piano and cake and [A#m] sandwiches and other combustibles.
_ _ [D#] Now when I give a ball I clean
out [G#] me cabin and I [B] lock up any [F] further drink in the cupboard.
[G#] Then I put me hat behind the door
and the neighbours come in [G] bringing their suppers with them and each one putting a shilling or two
in the hat, and this is the bit I like.
_ Then I [D#] cock me leg over the [Gm] dresser, [C#] I throw me top lip
over the [F#] flute and [G#] I tooth it away like a hat full [C#] of larks [F#] and there [C#] they stay,
[B] leaping like hares.
[F#] _ _ [C#] _
[F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] Have you heard of Phil the Flute from [F#] the town of [C#] Ballymook?
The times are
going hard with him, in fact the man was weak, so he just set out and noticed his [F#] neighbours one [C#] and
all, as to how he'd like the company that evening at a ball.
When [G#] writing out he was [A#m] careful to
suggest to them that if they found [G#] a hat too disconvenient to the door, the [C#] more they [G#] put in
[A#m] whenever he requested [C#] and the better would the music be for Bath or in the floor.
With the
flute and [F#] the twiddle on the fiddle, [C#] up in the middle like a heron on [G#] a griddle,
[C#] _ hands [F#] around cross to [C#] the wall, oh hadn't we the [A#m] gaiety at [G#] Phil the [C#] Flute's ball?
_ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [G#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] There was Mr Dennis Doughty who [F#] kept the [C#] running dog, there was Liddy Crugger Paddy from the
Turreloggered [G#] Bog, [C#] boys from every bar and [F#] girls from every [C#] yard, and the beautiful Miss Bradys
and [G#] the private [C#] Azzincart, along with [G#] them came [A#m] Belsen, Mrs Capertine, [C#] little Mickey [G#] Mulligan
was Arch Viggofore, [C#] Rose [G#] Suzanne [A#m] and Margaret from [C#] Rafferty, the flower of Ali Bunyan and the pride
of Pedro [G#] Vore.
With the [C#] flute _ [F#] and the twiddle on [C#] the fiddle, up in the middle [A#m] like a heron on [G#] a
griddle, [C#] _ hands around [F#] cross to [C#] the wall, oh hadn't we [A#m] the gaiety at [G#] Phil the Flute's [C#] ball? _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [G#] _
_ [C#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [G#] _
Of course [C#] little Mickey Mulligan got [F#] up to show them [C#] how, and then the winter caperty gets out
and takes a bow, like a dance show, off your feet so she is [F#] sure as you were [C#] born, if you'll only
make [A#m] the pipe a player, the hare was [C#] in the corn, Phil [G#] plays up [A#m] to the best of his [C#] ability, the
ladies and the gentlemen begin to [G#] do the share, [C#] Faith and [G#] Mick, [A#m] the Jew that has agility, [C#] and we
got him Mrs Capertine, laughing like a hare, with the flute and the [F#] twiddle on the [C#] fiddle, up in the
[A#m] middle like a heron on a griddle, [C#] up hands around [F#] crossing to [C#] the wall, oh hadn't we the [A#m] gaiety at
[G#] Phil the Flute's [C#]
ball?
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A#m] _ [C#] _
_ [A#m] _ _ _ _ [G#] _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [A#m] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ Phil the Flute the tip the white [F#] little crooked [C#] patch, I think it's very time to see for passing
on the hat, so Paddy passed the cobbler [F#] and the looking mighty [C#] cute, says you got to play the [A#] pipe
for when he twiddles on [C#] the flute, _ all [G#] join in with the [A#m] greatest show reality, [C#] covering [G#] the buckle
and the [D#] shuffle and the [G#] cut, [C#]
jig, [G#] squirt, dance, all the [A#m] very finest, with [C#] the beat, the company
and handle in the foot, with the _ _
_ [F#] twiddle on the [C#] fiddle, up in the [A#m] middle like a heron on a [G#] griddle,
_ [C#] _ hands around [F#] crossing to the [C#] wall, oh hadn't [A#m] we the gaiety at Phil [F#] the _ _ Flute's ball? _