Tonalidad: B major•
Verse 1
B
Song is actually a sort of a rakes progress
in music.
I don't suppose anyone
has drunken up yet
but please God if you can get it.
It says bonya on bow is on gowna
and the juice of the barley for me
which means the milk of the cow
is all right for the cow
but the juice of the barley for me.
In the sweet county Limerick,
E
B
one cold winter's night,
all the torfires were burning
E
F#
when I first saw the light.
B
An d a drunken old midwife
E
B
went tipsy with joy,
as she danced round the floor
F#
with her slip of a bite.
B
E
Singin' bunions, boys, and gona,
B
F#
B
And the juice of the bar ley for me.
E
B
Well, when I was a gossoon of eight years or so,
With me turf and me primer to
F#
school I did go,
B
To a dirty old schoolhouse
without any door,
Where lay the schoolmaster
F#
blind drunk on the floor.
B
E
Say in Banyan, Moise, and Gaona,
B
F#
B
and if you sow the bar ley for me.
At the learning I wasn't such a genius,
I'm thinking.
I wasn't much at poetry, either.
But I soon bet the master entirely
F#
at drinking.
B
Not a wig or a wedding
E
B
for five miles around.
But meself in the corner
F#
was sure to be found.
B
E
Singin' bun, yarn, bow, wissun, gowna,
B
and the juice of
the barley for me.
One Sunday the priest read me out from the author,
sayin' you'll end
up your days
F#
with your neck in a hother,
B
an d you'll dance a fine jig
E
B
between heaven and hell.
And his words,
they did frighten me,
F#
the truth for to tell.
B
Singin' bun, yarn, bow,
E
B
wissun, gowna,
F#
B
and the juice of the barley for me.
So the very next morning,
as the dawn hit its break,
I went down to the vestry,
E
F#
the pledge for today.
B
And there in that room
E
B
sat the priests in a bunch,
round a big roaring fire
F#
drinking tumblers of punch.
B
E
Send money on home with Sonona
B
And the dukes of the valley for
me
Now this is a sad verse
Well, from that day to this
E
B
I have wandered alone
I'm a jack of all trades
E
and a master of none
F#
B
With the sky for me roll
E
B
and the earth for me floor,
and I'll dance out me days
F#
B
drinkin' whisky galore, singin' Banyan,
E
Lewis and Yonah,
B
F#
B
and the juice of the barley for me.
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