Martinmas Time chords by Karan Casey

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
C  F  C  G  C  F  C
C  F  C  G  C  Em  D G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Instrumental:
C  F  C  G  C  F  C
C  F  C  G  C  Em  D G

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

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

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

Verse:
   C         F      C      G
So she moved closer to the gates
    C          F    C
And louder she does call
       F         C     G
"Room, room, you gentlemen
             Am       G
We must have lodgings all"

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

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

Instrumental:
C  F  C  G  C  F  C
C  F  C  G  C  Em  D G

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

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

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

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

Outro:
C  F  C  G  C  F  C
C  F  C  G  C  Em  D G