Old Browns Daughter chords by Great Big Sea

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:

C majorC          G+G             C majorC
There is an ancient party at the other end of town.
  FF                            G+G
He keeps a little grocery store, and the ancient's name is Brown.
  FF                      G+G
He has a lovely daughter, such a treat I never saw.
   C majorC              G+G        C majorC
Oh, I only hope someday to be the old man's son-in-law.


Verse 2:

C majorC          G+G                C majorC
Old Brown sells from off his shelf most anything you please.
     FF                       G+G
He's got juice hops for the little boys, lollipops and cheese.
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His daughter minds the store and it's a treat to see her serve.
  C majorC               G+G        C majorC
I'd like to run away with her but I don't have the nerve.

Chorus:

     FF                    C majorC
And it's Old Brown's daughter is a proper sort of girl.
FF                   G+G
Old Brown's daughter is as fair as any pearl.
 FF
I wish I was a Lord, Mayor, Marquis or an Earl.
                G+G      C majorC
And blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.
FF              G+G      C majorC
Blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.


Verse 3:

   C majorC           G+G        C majorC
Well poor Old Brown now has trouble with the gout.
  FF                        G+G
He grumbles in his little parlour when he can't get out.
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And when I make a purchase, Lord, and she hands me the change...
   C majorC                G+G      C majorC
That girl she makes me pulverized, I feel so very strange.

Chorus:

     FF                    C majorC
And it's Old Brown's daughter is a proper sort of girl.
FF                   G+G
Old Brown's daughter is as fair as any pearl.
 FF
I wish I was a Lord, Mayor, Marquis or an Earl.
                G+G      C majorC
And blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.
FF              G+G      C majorC
Blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.


Verse 4:

   C majorC                  G+G      C majorC
Miss Brown, she smiles so sweetly when I say a tender word.
    FF                        G+G
Oh, but Old Brown says that she must wed a Marquis or a Lord.
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And I don't suppose it's ever one of those things I will be...
    C majorC              G+G    C majorC
But, by jingo, next election I will run for Trinity!


Chorus:

     FF                    C majorC
And it's Old Brown's daughter is a proper sort of girl.
FF                   G+G
Old Brown's daughter is as fair as any pearl.
 FF
I wish I was a Lord, Mayor, Marquis or an Earl.
                G+G      C majorC
And blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.
FF              G+G      C majorC
Blow me if I wouldn't marry Old Brown's girl.