The Juice Of The Barley chords by The Clancy Brothers

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Original Live Version: Key of BB
Capo 4

Verse 1:
     G+G            C majorC      G+G
In the sweet county Limerick one cold winter's night
     G+G                C majorC      D7D7
All the turf fires were burning when I first saw the light
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And a drunken old midwife went tipsy with joy
    G+G        C majorC       D7D7
As she danced round the room with her slip of a boy

Refrain:
 D7D7   G+G          C majorC  G+G      G+G      D7D7    G+G
Singin' bainne na mbo is an gamh-na, and the Juice of the Barley for me


Verse 2:
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Well when I was a gossoon of eight years old or so
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With me turf and me primer to school I did go
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To a dusty old school house without any door
    G+G       C majorC      D7D7
Where lay the school master blind drunk on the floor


Verse 3:
    G+G            C majorC     G+G
At the learning I wasn't such a genius I'm thinking (I wasn't much for poetry, either)
   G+G           C majorC     D7D7
But I soon beat the master entirely at drinking
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Not a wake or a wedding for ten miles around
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But meself in the corner was sure to be found


Refrain:
     G+G          C majorC  G+G      G+G      D7D7     G+G
Singin' bainne na mbo is an gamh-na, and the Juice of the Barley for me


Verse 4:
   G+G             C majorC       G+G
One Sunday the priest thread me out from the altar
       G+G            C majorC     D7D7
Saying you'll end your days with your neck in a halter;
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And you'll dance a fine jig between heaven and hell
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And his words they did frighten me the truth for to tell

Verse 5:
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So the very next morning as the dawn it did break
    G+G           C majorC       D7D7
I went down to the vestry the pledge for to take
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And there in that room sat them priests in a bunch
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Round a big roaring fire drinkin' tumblers of punch


Refrain:
    G+G          C majorC  G+G      G+G      D7D7     G+G
Singin' bainne na mbo is an gamh-na, and the Juice of the Barley for me


Verse 6:
     G+G            C majorC    G+G
Well from that day to this I have wandered alone
    G+G            C majorC     D7D7
I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none
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With the sky for me roof and the earth for me floor
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And I'll dance out me days drinking whiskey galore


Refrain:
    G+G          C majorC  G+G      G+G      D7D7     G+G
Singin' bainne na mbo is an gamh-na, and the Juice of the Barley for me
    G+G          C majorC  G+G      G+G      D7D7     G+G
Singin' bainne na mbo is an gamh-na, and the Juice of the Barley for me