Song Name: | The Juice of the Barley(tremolo) | By: | The Clancys, Tommy Makem |
Posted By: | yukon | Difficulty: | Beginner |
Key: | C | Genre: | Irish |
Harp Type: | Tremolo | ||
Created: | 2009-04-29 15:04:38 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | 6 -5 5 -4 5 -3 5
In the sweet country Lim�rick, 6 -5 -6 -7 -7 6 -5 one cold winter�s night, all the 5 -4 5 -3 5 6 6 -5 turf fires were burning when I first 5 -5 -4 6 -5 5 -4 5 saw the light; and a drunken old -3 5 6 -5 -6 -7 -7 -7 -8 midwife went tip-sy with joy, as she 8 -8 -7 -6 6 5 -5 danced round the floor with her slip 5 -5 -4 of a boy Chorus: 6 -5 5 -4 5 -3 5 6 -7 6 Singing ban-ya-no mo if an-ga-na 6 -5 5 5 5 -5 5 -4 -3 and the juice of the barley for me. Well when I was a gossoon of eight years old or so with me turf and me primer to school I did go. To a dusty old school house without any door, where lay the school master blind drunk on the floor, Chorus At the learning I wasn�t such a genius I�m thinking, but I soon bet the master entirely at drinking, not a wake or a wedding for five miles around, but meself in the corner was sure to be found, Chorus One Sunday the priest read me out from the altar saying you�ll end up your days with your neck in a halter; and you�ll dance a fine jig between heaven and hell and his words they did frighten me the truth for to tell, Chorus So the very next morning as the dawn it did break I went down to the vestry the pledge for to take, and there in that room sat the priests in a bunch round a big roaring fire drinking tumblers of punch, Chorus Well from that day to this I have wandered alone, I�m a jack of all trades and a master of none, with the sky for me roof and the earth for me floor, and I�ll dance out my days drinking whiskey galore, Chorus |