WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Sullivans John Chords – Dubliners | Version #1
[Verse 1]
D A C
O'Sullivan John to the road you're gone
D G D
Far away from your native land
C Am
You've gone with the tinker's daughter
D C D
Far along the road to roam
C Am
O'Sullivan John you won't stick it long
D C A
Till your belly will soon be slack
D A D C
As you roam the road with a mighty load
D G D
And a tool box on your back
[Verse 2]
A C
I met Katie Coffee with her neat baby
D G D
Behind on her back strapped on
C Am
She'd an old ash plant in her hand
D C D
To drive the donkey on
C Am
Enquiring at every farmers house,as
D A D
Along the road she passed
A
And it's where would you get an
D C D G D
Old pot to mend,and where would she get an ass
[Verse 3]
A C
There's a hairy ass fair in the County Clare
D G D
In a place they call Spancil Hill
C Am
Where my brother James got a wrap of a haimes
D A D
And poor Paddy they tried to kill
C Am
They loaded him up in an old ass and cart
D C D
For along the road to go
A D C
Ah,bad luck to the day that I went away
D G D
To join with the tinkers band