Planxty - The Good Ship Kangaroo Chords

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Once I was a wedding man [C] that lived at home at ease
[G] Now I am a mariner [D] that loves the [G] angry seas
[D] Oh I always [Am] loved seafaring life, I [G] bid my love adieu
I ship this Jordan, [C] cook [G] me vials and bore the kangaroo
[D] Oh I never thought you a true [C] falsary, the proven truth
As [G] we sailed away to Milford Bay [D] and bore the [G]
kangaroo
_ _ _ Thinking me, [C] oh thinking [G] me, [D] she mournfully [C] did say
[G] When you were in a foreign land [D] and I am [G] far away
[D] Take this [Am] lucky truppety bid, [G] it'll make you bear in mind
That loving, trusting, faithful [D] heart you left in [G] tears behind
Cheer [D] up, cheer [C] up me own true [D] love, don't weep so [C] bitterly
[G] She sobbed, she sighed, she joked, she [D] cried and she could [G] not say goodbye
[D] Oh I've been gone [Am] for very long, it's but a [G] month or two
When I return again [D] of course I'll visit [G]
you
[D] Oh I never thought you a true [C] falsary, the proven truth
[G] As we sailed away to Milford Bay [D] and bore the [G] kangaroo
_ _ Our ship [C] is home [D] from many the [C] pardoned shores
[G] _ Many's the fart parade has zipped [D] in to me love [G] I bore
[D] I brought tortoises [Am] from Tenerife, [G] ties from Timbuktu
A china [C] rat and a [G] minbell, perhaps a little bit of poppy too
Head off I sought [C] a dwelling [D] on a street above [C] the town
[G] Where an ancient dam upon the line [D] was hanging [G] out head _
[D] Where as [Am] my luxuries vanished sir about six months [G] ago
Where a smart young man that drives the van for chaplain son
Oh [D] I never thought you a true [C] falsary, the proven truth
[G] As we sailed [C] away [G] to Milford Bay [D] and bore the [G] kangaroo _ _ _
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Here's a house to [C] dreams and merry [D] life to sow up to [C] suds and be
[G] _ Hearts through love and pet and starch [D] and wash [G] and sod
_ [D] I'll go and [Am] toast in pardoned shore no [G] longer can I stay
With some china [C] hot [G] and hot they'll throw me life away
But me love she [C] is no foolish [D] girl her age it is to [C] scorn
[G] Me love she is no spinster she's [D] been married to [G] Isle before
[D] I cannot [Em] say it was her wealth that [Am] stole me heart [G] away
She's a boiler [C] in [G] the laundry for one and nine a day
[D] _ I never thought you a true [C] falsary, the proven truth
As [G] we sailed away to Milford Bay [D] and bore the [G] _ kangaroo _
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