Casey chords by Christy Moore

C         F    C     G
If it's drink you want and plenty of feeding
  F         G   C
And you like the bed as well
  C     F     C        G
Grab the wife, throw the kids in the Datsun
  F           G   C
Make for Inch and the Strand hotel
  C       F     C
If talk of turf drives you crazy
  C         F    G
And you can't face a bale of hay
  C   F    C     G   F           G C
Make for Foley's work the topshelf talk puck, pints and the GAA

C    F      C    G    F         G   C
Oh the low road goes from Killorglin all the way down to Annascaul
C       F    C     G  F         G    C
When Eamonn Casey came to guide us he never used his brakes at all
C             F   C           F  G
A trail of sheepdogs littered Kerry from Killorglin to Macroom
C        F    C     G       F      G      C
He might have been all soul's salvation but he also was the sheep dog's doom


CHORUS
 C       F     C
Casey, Casey you're the divil
 C        F    G
When you get behind the wheel
   C     F  C      G
It was a sad day for the Kerry sheepdogs
 F          G     C
When your Firestones they did feel


C    F    C     G    F      G   C
From the holy dioceses of Galway Eamonn went to London town
     C    F    C     G     F      G     C
Where the traffic cops out on their duty they overtook and flagged him down
C         F   C         F   G
As he was tearing after luncheon around the city like a loon
C      F    C     G      F             G   C
Regardless to his rank and station they forced him to blow up their auld balloon

 C     F   C    G   F         G    C
Geographically he was in limbo faced with justice true and true
  C   F    C   G   F       G    C
No obligations were accepted he was rightly up the flue
 C           F    C            F    G
No bolt of lightning from the heavens could remove the boys in blue
      C      F      C     G    F         G   C
Well he wished the force that had worked at Cana would turn his wine into water too


CHORUS
 C       F     C
Casey, Casey you're the divil
 C        F    G
When you get behind the wheel
   C     F  C      G
It was a sad day for the Kerry sheepdogs
 F          G     C
When your Firestones they did feel


   C   F    C    G     F           G   C
When Ronnie Reagan came to Ireland all the wankers made a great furore
C      F    C    G   F           G   C
But Eamonn remembered bishop Romero said he'd even up the score
C       F    C           F    G
Casey Casey said "God willin' I'll meet Reagan on the road
C      F    C    G      F            G     C
Niall O'Brien will hear his confessions when I've taught him the Green Cross Code"
C       F     C                F    G
Casey Casey you're the right man to teach them Yankees right from wrong
C      F      C     G    F             G   C
If it wasn't for yourself and Reagan there wouldn't be much to Martin Egan's son