Martinmas Time chords by Karan Casey

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

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

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
C FF C majorC G+G C majorC E minorEm D MajorD G+G

Verse:
    C majorC  FF    C majorC     G+G
It fell out upon one Martinmas time
   C majorC    FF   C majorC
When snow lay on the border
       FF    C majorC    G+G
There came a troop of soldiers here
    A minorAm       G+G
To take up their winter quarters

Verse:
  C majorC     FF    C majorC     G+G
And they road high and they rode north
  C majorC     FF    C majorC
And they rode o'er the border
        FF     C majorC      G+G
And there they met with a nice, little girl
  A minorAm       G+G
She was a farmer's daughter

Chorus:
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum

Verse:
      C majorC    FF    C majorC   G+G
'Cause they made her swear a solemn oath
 C majorC     FF   C majorC
A augmentedA salt tear in her eye
        FF      C majorC    G+G
That she would come to the quarter gates
   A minorAm        G+G
When no one would her spy

Verse:
  C majorC     FF   C majorC    G+G
But she's gone to the barber's shop
      C majorC    FF     C majorC
And to the barber's shop went soon
       FF      C majorC      G+G
She bade them cut off her long, yellow hair
  A minorAm       G+G
As short as any dragoon

Verse:
  C majorC     FF   C majorC    G+G
And she's gone to the tailor's shop
  C majorC     FF     C majorC
And dressed in soldier's clothes
       FF    C majorC      G+G
With two long pistols down by her side
       A minorAm   G+G
A augmentedA nice little boy was she

Chorus:
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum

Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
C FF C majorC G+G C majorC E minorEm D MajorD G+G

Verse:
  C majorC     FF   C majorC    G+G
And she's gone to the quarter gates
  C majorC   FF    C majorC
And loudly she does call
        FF    C majorC    G+G
"There comes a troop of soldiers here
  A minorAm         G+G
We must have lodgings all"

Verse:
    C majorC   FF    C majorC    G+G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
  C majorC     FF      C majorC
He gives her half a crown-o
       FF    C majorC   G+G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
       A minorAm  G+G
Tonight there is no room"

Chorus:
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum

Verse:
  C majorC     FF   C majorC   G+G
So she moved closer to the gates
  C majorC     FF  C majorC
And louder she does call
    FF     C majorC   G+G
"Room, room, you gentlemen
       A minorAm    G+G
We must have lodgings all"

Verse:
    C majorC   FF    C majorC    G+G
And the quartermaster, he comes down
  C majorC     FF    C majorC
He gives her eighteen pence-o
       FF    C majorC   G+G
"Go find your lodgings in the town
       A minorAm   G+G
Tonight here comes a wench-o"

Chorus:
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum

Instrumental:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
C FF C majorC G+G C majorC E minorEm D MajorD G+G

Verse:
    C majorC   FF   C majorC    G+G
So she took a pistol from her side
  C majorC    FF    C majorC
She blew it loud and shrill-o
         FF       C majorC    G+G
"You're all very free with your eighteen pence
      A minorAm        G+G
Now you're not for a girl at all"

Verse:
    C majorC    FF   C majorC    G+G
And she took the garter from her knee
  C majorC   FF    C majorC
The ribbon from her hair-o
        FF     C majorC    G+G
She tied them 'round the quarter gates
 A minorAm        G+G
A augmentedA token she'd been there-o

Verse:
  C majorC     FF     C majorC   G+G
And when they found that it was her
   C majorC    FF    C majorC
They tried to have her taken
        FF      C majorC    G+G
She slapped her spurs to her horse's side
  A minorAm       G+G
She galloped home a maiden

Chorus:
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle didle deedle dum
     FF           G+G
It's the rum-dum deedle deedle dum-dum

Outro:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
C FF C majorC G+G C majorC E minorEm D MajorD G+G