Lisdoonvarna And I'll Tell Me Ma chords by Christy Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

C
How's it goin' there everybody

From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy
D
Here we are in the County Clare
   Am          C
It's a long, long way from here to there
   D
the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher
  C
The Tulla and the Kilfenora
D

Micho Russell, Doctor Bill
C
Willie Clancy, Noel Hill
D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere
  C
If it's music you want
        D
You should go to Clare


Chorus:

 G     C
Oh, Lisdoonvarna
G                 C
Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoon, Lisdoonvarna!


 D
I always leave on a Thursday night
    C
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
 D
I like to hit Lisdoon
  C
In around Friday afternoon
D
This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together
 C
I don't need to worry about the weather
D
Ramble in for a pint of stout
   C
You'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
D
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin
   C
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn
      D
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald
       C
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World
D
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand
     C
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band
                    D
Why wouldnt they theyre getting it for nothing!


Chorus:

  D
The multitudes, they flocked in throngs
  C
To hear the music and the songs
D
Motorbikes and Hi-ace vans
   C
With bottles - barrels - flagons - cans
       D        C
Theres mighty craic. Loads of frolics
D
Pioneers and alcoholics
C
PLAC, SPUC and the FCA
D
Free Nicky Kelly and the IRA
C
Hairy chests and milk-white thighs
D
Mickey dodgers in disguise
  C
Mc Graths, O'Briens, Pippins, Coxs
  D
Massage parlours in horse boxes
  C              D
The BBC are makin' tapes, takin' breaks and throwin shapes
    C
There's amhráns, bodhráns, amadáns
 D
Hairy freaks, Arab sheiks, Hindu Sikhs, Jesus freaks
    C
This is heaven, this is hell
  D
Who cares? Who can tell?
    C
(Anyone for the last few Choc Ices, now?)


Chorus:

 D
A 747 for Jackson Browne
          C
They had to build a special runway just to get him down
 D
Before the Chieftains could start to play
C
Six creamy pints, 20 Majors and a box of matches came out on a tray
  D
Shergar was ridden by Lord Lucan
   C
Seán Cannon did the backstage cookin'
  D
Clannad were playin' "Harry's Game"
C
Christy was singin' "Nancy Spain"
D
Mary O'Hara and Brush Shields
 C
Together singin' "The Four Green Fields"
    D
Van the Man and Emmy Lou
C
Moving Hearts and Planxty too!


Chorus:

C
I'll tell me ma when I come home
G            C
the boys won't leave the girls alone
C
they pull me hair and stole my comb
   G          C
well that's alright till I come home
C        F
She is handsome she is pretty
C         G
she's the belle of Belfast city
C        F
she's a courtin' one two three
C         G   C
please won't you tell me who is she