Darby Oleary chords by The Dubliners

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
A minorAm            C majorC      FF
One evening of late as I happened to stray,
    C majorC         G+G
to the county Tipperary I straight took my way,
  A minorAm          C majorC      FF
to dig for potatoes and work by the day,
   C majorC       G+G    A minorAm
for a farmer called Darby O'Leary.

Verse 2:
A minorAm             C majorC
I asked him how far we were bound for to go,
  FF           G+G
the night being dark and a cold wind did blow,
   A minorAm           C majorC      FF
I was hungry and tired and me spirits were low,
   C majorC      G+G      A minorAm
for I got neither whiskey nor water.

Verse 3:
A minorAm           C majorC      FF
The dirty old miser he mounted his steed,
    C majorC           G+G
to the Galbally Mountains he rode in great speed,
 A minorAm           C majorC       FF
I followed behind 'til my poor feet did bleed,
    C majorC        G+G       A minorAm
when we stopped when his old horse was weary.

Verse 4:
A minorAm              C majorC
When we came to his cottage I entered it first,
  FF            G+G
it seemed like a kennel or ruined old church,
   A minorAm         C majorC      FF
says aye to myself I am left in the lurch,
    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
in the house of old Darby O'Leary.

Verse 5:
A minorAm           C majorC     FF
I well recollect it was Michalmass night,
   C majorC           G+G
to a hearty good supper he did me invite,
 A minorAm            C majorC        FF
a cup of sour milk that was more green than white,
    C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
and it gave me the trotting disorder.

Verse 6:
A minorAm             C majorC
The wet old potatoes would poison the cats,
    FF             G+G
and the barn where me bed was, was swarming with rats,
  A minorAm               C majorC       FF
the fleas would have frightened the fearless Saint Pat,
  C majorC      G+G        A minorAm
who banished the snakes o'er the border.

Verse 7:
A minorAm             C majorC      FF
He worked me by day and he worked me by night,
     C majorC           G+G
while he held an old candle to give me some light,
 A minorAm            C majorC     FF
I wished his potatoes would die of the blight,
   C majorC       G+G      A minorAm
or himself would go off with the fairies.

Verse 8:
A minorAm             C majorC
't Was on this old miser I looked with a frown,
     FF              G+G
when the straw was brought in for to make my shakedown,
   A minorAm             C majorC      FF
and I wished that I'd never seen him nor his town,
    C majorC    G+G    A minorAm
nor the sky over Darby O'Leary.

Verse 9:
A minorAm             C majorC      FF
I worked in Kilconnel, I've worked in Kilmore,
   C majorC            G+G
I've worked in Knockranny and Shanballymore,
  A minorAm       C majorC    FF
and Kalisanaker and Sollahed Moore,
   C majorC     G+G     A minorAm
with farmers so decent and cheery.

Verse 10:
A minorAm              C majorC
I've worked in Tipperary, the Rag in Ross Green,
    FF            G+G
at the mount of Killfegal, the Bridge of Orleans,
   A minorAm         C majorC     FF
such woeful starvation I never yet seen,
   C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
as I got from old Darby O'Leary.