Chords for The Dubliners - Phil The Fluter's Ball

_ _ _ _ [D] Have you heard of Filder Flute, or from the town of Aldemuch?
The times was going hard with him, in fact the [A] man was broke.
[D] So he sent an invitation to his neighbour's one and all,
[F#] As how he'd write their company that evening [D] at a ball.
When writing out, he was careful to suggest to them
That if they [B] found a hat of his convenient [A] at the door,
The more they put in, whenever [D] he requested them,
The better would the music be for [A] battering the floor.
[D] With a toot, and a flute, and a twiddle on the fiddle-low,
Hopping [Bm] in the middle like a hat, [A] not a griddle [D]-low,
Hop, there, and a hand around the cross, and hit the ball.
[Bm] If you hadn't been a gaiety, you'd have felt the [D] flute at ball. _ _ _
There was Mr Dennis Docherty, who kept a running dog,
There was Little Crooked Paddy from the Turtle Loving Ball,
There were boys from everywhere, and young girls from every yard,
And the beautiful Miss Brady's in the private Azencart.
And along with them came Bouncing Mrs Scafferty,
Little [A] Mickey Mulligan was also to the fore,
Rose Suzanne, and Margaret [D] O'Roperty,
The flower of Barbermcullion, and the pride of Petrebourg.
With a toot, and a flute, and a twiddle on the fiddle-low,
Hopping [Bm] in the middle like a hat, not a griddle [D]-low,
Hop, there, and a hand around the cross, and hit the ball.
[B] If you hadn't been a gaiety, you'd have felt the [D] flute at ball.
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First Little Mickey Mulligan got up to show them how,
And then the winded Scafferty stepped out and thanked her vow.
I'll dance you off your legs, you'll see, as sure as you were born,
If you'd only make the piper play, the hare was in the corn.
So Phil plays up to the best of his ability,
The ladies [A] and the gentlemen begin to do the share.
Fate and mix, it's you that [D] has agility,
Because when Mrs Scafferty you're lapping like a hare.
With a toot, and a flute, and a twiddle on the fiddle-low,
Hopping [Bm] in the middle like a hat, not a griddle [D]-low,
Hop, there, and a hand around the cross, and hit the ball.
[F#] If you hadn't been a gaiety, you'd have felt the flute at ball.
_ _ _ [D] Then Phil the fiddler tipped the wing to Little Cuckoo's past,
Which Link is nearly trying to see for passing [A] round the hat.
[D] So Paddy passed the cobbin round, and looking very cute,
Said, you have to [Bm] pay the piper when he tootles [D] on the flute.
Then all joined in with the greatest joviality,
[A] Covered in the buckle, and the shuffle, and the cut.
Jigs were danced of the very [D] finest quality,
With a whither bet the company had handled [A] in the first.
[D] With a toot, and a flute, and a twiddle on the fiddle-low,
Hopping [Bm] in the middle like a hat, [A] not a [D] griddle-low,
Hop, there, and a hand around the cross, and hit the ball.
If you hadn't [F#] been a gaiety, you'd have felt the flute at ball.
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