Gartloney Rats chords by The Pogues

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: C

🎸 Intro:

C G | C C | C G | F C (x2)

🎸 Verse 1:
C                              Gm
The boys from the village were festering sore
Gm                              F
For a day on the rant with some music and more
C                                  Gm
They'd drink porter in Maura's way over in fore
         F                        C
And they never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Verse 2:
C                             Gm
There was Harry the banjo and Dunne of the swan
Gm                                 F
With whose bone from the wing he'd beat the bodhran
        C                          Gm
And the song that he'd sing was of ganders and all
         F                        C
And he'd never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Verse 3:
C                                 Gm
There was woods on the guitar and auld squeeze box too
Gm                          F
Who came from a time before aeroplanes flew
     C                   Gm
He'd sit in a corner and mule quite a few
    F                        C
And never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Interlude:
C G | C C | C G | F C (x2)
C F | D G | C F | C G C (x2)

🎸 Verse 4:
C                              Gm
There was Mahon the singer who knew all the songs
Gm                         F
And never was known for to put a foot wrong
     C                               Gm
He'd sing through the night till the break o' the morn
         F                        C
And he'd never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Verse 5:
C                   Gm
Harry the banjo now there was a man
Gm                  F
A bottomless pit if ever there was one
C                                Gm
More porter he'd draw than there is in the land
         F                        C
And he'd never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Verse 6:
C                       Gm
The Gartloney Rats they play away
Gm                            F
They'd play for the pints and not for the pay
        C                           Gm
And the pints they'd go down in the usual way
           F                        C
And they'd never get drunk but stay sober

🎸 Outro:
C C | C C | F G
C C | C C | C G | F C

G G | G G | F F
G G | G G | F G C

C C | C C | F G
C C | C C | C G | F C

G G | G G | F F
G G | G G | F G C