Chords for Tommy Makem - Nell Flaherty's Drake
Tempo:
96.45 bpm
Chords used:
C
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Am
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[F] [G] [Bm] [C] Oh, my name it is Nell, and the truth worth to tell, [F] I come from [C] Codhill, [Am] which I'll never [G] deny.
[C] I had a fine drake, and I die for his sake, [F] That my grandmother [C] left me, and she gone to die.
The [F] dear little fellow, [C] his legs [F] they were yellow, [C] He could fly [Am] like a swallow, or swim [G] like a hake,
[C] Till some dirty savage took her as his white [F] cabbage, Most [C] wantonly murdered me [G] [C] beautiful drake.
Now his neck it was green, almost fit to be seen, He [F] was fit [C] for a [Am] queen of the [G] highest degree.
[C] His body was white, and it would you delight, [F] He was [C] plump, fat, and heavy, and brisk as a bee.
He was [Bb] wholesome and sound, he [Am] would weigh [C] twenty pound, And the [Dm] universe round, he [C] would roam for his [Cm] sake.
But look to the robber, be he drunk or [F] sober, That murdered [C] Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake.
May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig, May [F] each hair [C] on his [Am] wig be well thriced [G] with the [C] flail,
May his door never latch, may his roof have no thatch, [F] May his [C] turkeys not hatch, [G] may the rat [C] sit his mail,
May [Bb] every old fairy [C] from Cork to Dun Laoghaire Dip him [F] snug and [C] airy in river or lake,
That the eel and the trout, they may dine on the snout, [Dm] Of the monster [Am] that [Gm] murdered Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt, [Bb] May a ghost [C] ever haunt him at dead of [G] the night,
[C] May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, May [Dm] his goat [Cm] fly away like [Gm] an owl, [C] paper kite,
That the flies [Bb] and the fleas, may the rat [C] ever tease, May the Pearson [Am] March breeze make him shiver [G] and shake,
[C] May a lump of his stick raise the bumps fast and thick, [Dm] Of the [C] monster that murdered [D] Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
Well, the only good news that I have to infuse is, [Dm] That old [C] Paddy Hughes and [Am] young [G] Anthony [C] Blake,
Also Johnny Dwyer and Corny [Dm] McGuire, They each [C] have a [G] grandson of my [C] darling Drake,
May treasure [Dm] had dozens of [E] nephews [C] and cousins, And one I [E] must get or my [G] heart it will break,
[C] For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy, So ends the whole song of [G] Nell [C] Flaherty's
[C] I had a fine drake, and I die for his sake, [F] That my grandmother [C] left me, and she gone to die.
The [F] dear little fellow, [C] his legs [F] they were yellow, [C] He could fly [Am] like a swallow, or swim [G] like a hake,
[C] Till some dirty savage took her as his white [F] cabbage, Most [C] wantonly murdered me [G] [C] beautiful drake.
Now his neck it was green, almost fit to be seen, He [F] was fit [C] for a [Am] queen of the [G] highest degree.
[C] His body was white, and it would you delight, [F] He was [C] plump, fat, and heavy, and brisk as a bee.
He was [Bb] wholesome and sound, he [Am] would weigh [C] twenty pound, And the [Dm] universe round, he [C] would roam for his [Cm] sake.
But look to the robber, be he drunk or [F] sober, That murdered [C] Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake.
May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig, May [F] each hair [C] on his [Am] wig be well thriced [G] with the [C] flail,
May his door never latch, may his roof have no thatch, [F] May his [C] turkeys not hatch, [G] may the rat [C] sit his mail,
May [Bb] every old fairy [C] from Cork to Dun Laoghaire Dip him [F] snug and [C] airy in river or lake,
That the eel and the trout, they may dine on the snout, [Dm] Of the monster [Am] that [Gm] murdered Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt, [Bb] May a ghost [C] ever haunt him at dead of [G] the night,
[C] May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, May [Dm] his goat [Cm] fly away like [Gm] an owl, [C] paper kite,
That the flies [Bb] and the fleas, may the rat [C] ever tease, May the Pearson [Am] March breeze make him shiver [G] and shake,
[C] May a lump of his stick raise the bumps fast and thick, [Dm] Of the [C] monster that murdered [D] Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
Well, the only good news that I have to infuse is, [Dm] That old [C] Paddy Hughes and [Am] young [G] Anthony [C] Blake,
Also Johnny Dwyer and Corny [Dm] McGuire, They each [C] have a [G] grandson of my [C] darling Drake,
May treasure [Dm] had dozens of [E] nephews [C] and cousins, And one I [E] must get or my [G] heart it will break,
[C] For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy, So ends the whole song of [G] Nell [C] Flaherty's
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[F] _ [G] _ [Bm] _ [C] _ _ Oh, my name it is Nell, and the truth worth to tell, [F] I come from [C] Codhill, [Am] which I'll never [G] deny.
[C] I had a fine drake, and I die for his sake, [F] That my grandmother [C] left me, and she gone to die.
The [F] dear little fellow, [C] his legs [F] they were yellow, [C] He could fly [Am] like a swallow, or swim [G] like a hake,
[C] Till some dirty savage took her as his white [F] cabbage, Most [C] wantonly murdered me [G] [C] beautiful drake.
Now his neck it was green, almost fit to be seen, He [F] was fit [C] for a [Am] queen of the [G] highest degree.
[C] His body was white, and it would you delight, [F] He was [C] plump, fat, and heavy, and brisk as a bee.
He was [Bb] wholesome and sound, he [Am] would weigh [C] twenty pound, And the [Dm] universe round, he [C] would roam for his [Cm] sake.
But look to the robber, be he drunk or [F] sober, That murdered [C] Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake.
May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig, May [F] each hair [C] on his [Am] wig be well thriced [G] with the [C] flail,
May his door never latch, may his roof have no thatch, [F] May his [C] turkeys not hatch, [G] may the rat [C] sit his mail,
May [Bb] every old fairy [C] from Cork to Dun Laoghaire Dip him [F] snug and [C] airy in river or lake,
That the eel and the trout, they may dine on the snout, [Dm] Of the monster [Am] that [Gm] murdered Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt, [Bb] May a ghost [C] ever haunt him at dead of [G] the night,
[C] May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, May [Dm] his goat [Cm] fly away like [Gm] an owl, [C] paper kite,
That the flies [Bb] and the fleas, may the rat [C] ever tease, May the Pearson [Am] March breeze make him shiver [G] and shake,
[C] May a lump of his stick raise the bumps fast and thick, [Dm] Of the [C] monster that murdered [D] Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
Well, the only good news that I have to infuse is, [Dm] That old [C] Paddy Hughes and [Am] young [G] Anthony [C] Blake,
Also Johnny Dwyer and Corny [Dm] McGuire, They each [C] have a [G] grandson of my [C] darling Drake,
May treasure [Dm] had dozens of [E] nephews [C] and cousins, And one I [E] must get or my [G] heart it will break,
[C] For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy, So ends the whole song of [G] Nell _ [C] Flaherty's
[C] I had a fine drake, and I die for his sake, [F] That my grandmother [C] left me, and she gone to die.
The [F] dear little fellow, [C] his legs [F] they were yellow, [C] He could fly [Am] like a swallow, or swim [G] like a hake,
[C] Till some dirty savage took her as his white [F] cabbage, Most [C] wantonly murdered me [G] [C] beautiful drake.
Now his neck it was green, almost fit to be seen, He [F] was fit [C] for a [Am] queen of the [G] highest degree.
[C] His body was white, and it would you delight, [F] He was [C] plump, fat, and heavy, and brisk as a bee.
He was [Bb] wholesome and sound, he [Am] would weigh [C] twenty pound, And the [Dm] universe round, he [C] would roam for his [Cm] sake.
But look to the robber, be he drunk or [F] sober, That murdered [C] Nell Flaherty's beautiful drake.
May his spade never dig, may his sow never pig, May [F] each hair [C] on his [Am] wig be well thriced [G] with the [C] flail,
May his door never latch, may his roof have no thatch, [F] May his [C] turkeys not hatch, [G] may the rat [C] sit his mail,
May [Bb] every old fairy [C] from Cork to Dun Laoghaire Dip him [F] snug and [C] airy in river or lake,
That the eel and the trout, they may dine on the snout, [Dm] Of the monster [Am] that [Gm] murdered Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt, [Bb] May a ghost [C] ever haunt him at dead of [G] the night,
[C] May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, May [Dm] his goat [Cm] fly away like [Gm] an owl, [C] paper kite,
That the flies [Bb] and the fleas, may the rat [C] ever tease, May the Pearson [Am] March breeze make him shiver [G] and shake,
[C] May a lump of his stick raise the bumps fast and thick, [Dm] Of the [C] monster that murdered [D] Nell [C] Flaherty's drake.
Well, the only good news that I have to infuse is, [Dm] That old [C] Paddy Hughes and [Am] young [G] Anthony [C] Blake,
Also Johnny Dwyer and Corny [Dm] McGuire, They each [C] have a [G] grandson of my [C] darling Drake,
May treasure [Dm] had dozens of [E] nephews [C] and cousins, And one I [E] must get or my [G] heart it will break,
[C] For to set me mind easy or else I'll run crazy, So ends the whole song of [G] Nell _ [C] Flaherty's
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