The Irish Rover Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C][Bb][F][Dm][Fm][Ab]
[C][Bb][F][Dm][Fm][Bb][C][Bb]
[F][Dm][Fm][C]
[Am][G][C]

[Verse 1]
In the year of our [C]lord eighteen hundred and [F]six
We set [C]sail from the coal quay of [G]Cork
We were [C]sailing [Fm]away [C]with
a cargo of [F]bricks
For the [C]Grand City [G]Hall of New [C]York
We had an elegant craft
She was [G]rigged fore and aft
And [C]oh, how the wild winds [G]drove her
She had [C]twenty seven masts
And withstood several [F]blasts
And they [C]called her The
Irish [G]Rover[C]

[Verse 2]
[C]
There was Barney McGee
From the banks of the [F]Lee
There was [C]Hogan from
County Tyr[G]one
There was [C]Johnny McGurk
Who was scared [G]stiff of [F]work
And a chap [C]from West[G]meath
[C]called Malone
There was Slugger O'Toole
Who was [G]drunk as a rule
And [C]Fighting Bill Tracy from [G]Dover
And your [C]man, Mick McCann
From the banks of the [F]Bann
Was the [C]skipper of the Irish [G]Rover[C]

[Verse 3]
[C]
We had five million bags
of the best Sligo [F]rags
We had [C]six [F]million [C]barrels of [G]stones
We had [C]seven million bales
of old nanny goats [F]tails
We had [C]eight million [G]barrels of [C]bones
We had nine million hogs
[G]Ten million dogs
El[C]even million barrels of [G]porter
[C]We had twelve million sides
of old blind [F]horses hides'
In the [C]hold of the Irish [G]Rover[C][F][Fm]

[Interlude 1]
[C][Bb][F][Fm][Bb][C][Bb][F]
[Fm]
[C][Am][G][C]
[Bb][F][Ab][C][Bb][F][Eb][Cm][C]
[Bb][F][Ab][C][Bb][Ab]
[G]
We had [C]sailed seven years When the

[Verse 4]
[C]
measles broke [F]out
And the [C]ship lost [F]its [C]way in a fo[G]g
And that [C]whole of a crew
Was reduced [G]down to [F]two
Just my[C]self and the
[G]Captain's old [C]dog
Well the ship struck a rock
Oh [G]Lord! what a shock
The [Am]boat she turned right [G]over
She turned [C]nine times around
And the poor old dog was [F]drowned
[C]I'm the last of The Irish
[G]Rover[C]

[Outro 1]
[C][F][C]
[G][C][F][G][C]