Miss Fogartys Xmas Cake chords by The Poxy Boggards

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G

Verse 1:
     G         C          G
As I sat in me window one evening
  G         C         G
A letterman came unto me
       G           C        G
With a nice little gilt invitation
           A           C        D
Saying "Gilhooley come over for tea"
  D                       G
I knew that the Fogarties sent it
   Am         C                D
So I went for old friendship's sake
        D                C          G
But the first thing they gave me to tackle
      Am            C         D
Was a piece of Miss Fogarty's cake

Chorus:
           G         C          G
There were plums and prunes and berries
G           D            G
Raisins and currants and cinnamon too!
           G        C          G
There were nuts and cloves and cherries
      A                             D
And a crust that was nailed on with glue!
           D                  G
There were carraway seeds in abundance
           A                       D
That would give you a fine stomach ache
         G          D           B        C
It would kill a man twice after eating a slice
        D                   G
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake!


Verse 2:
     G        C         G
Miss Mulligan wanted to taste it
    G            C         G
But really there wasn't no use
         G            C       G
For they worked at it over an hour
    Am            C          D
And couldn't get none of it loose
     D                      G
Till Murphy he went for the hatchet
    Am         C         D
And Kelly came in with a saw
     D          C           G
That cake was enough by the powers above
       Am       C         D
For to paralyze any man's jaw


Chorus:
           G         C          G
There were plums and prunes and berries
G           D            G
Raisins and currants and cinnamon too!
           G        C          G
There were nuts and cloves and cherries
      A                             D
And a crust that was nailed on with glue!
           D                  G
There were carraway seeds in abundance
           A                       D
That would give you a fine stomach ache
         G          D           B        C
It would kill a man twice after eating a slice
        D                   G
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake!


Verse 3:
     G        C          G
Miss Fogarty, proud as a peacock
     G           C         G
Kept smiling and blinking away
         G            C          G
Till she tripped over Flanagan's brogans
    Am              C          D
And spilled a whole brewing of tea
        D                               G
"Oh, Gilhooley", she cried, "you're not eating!
      Am         C           D
Try a little bit more for my sake!"
     D                C           G
"No, thank you", says I, "I've no courage to try
         Am       C            D
To force down any more of that cake."


Chorus:
           G         C          G
There were plums and prunes and berries
G           D            G
Raisins and currants and cinnamon too!
           G        C          G
There were nuts and cloves and cherries
      A                             D
And a crust that was nailed on with glue!
           D                  G
There were carraway seeds in abundance
           A                       D
That would give you a fine stomach ache
         G          D           B        C
It would kill a man twice after eating a slice
        D                   G
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake!


Verse 4:
  G         C             G
Maloney was took with the colic
  G          C             G
McNaulty complained of his head
  G           C           G
O'Donnell lay down on the sofa
    Am            C             D
And swore that he wished he was dead
     D                      G
Miss Bailey fell down in hysterics
        Am             C           D
And her legs, they did wriggle and shake
    D        C               G
And everyone swore they were poisoned
          Am          C         D
Just from eating Miss Fogarty's cake

Chorus:
           G         C          G
There were plums and prunes and berries
G           D            G
Raisins and currants and cinnamon too!
           G        C          G
There were nuts and cloves and cherries
      A                             D
And a crust that was nailed on with glue!
           D                  G
There were carraway seeds in abundance
           A                       D
That would give you a fine stomach ache
         G          D           B        C
It would kill a man twice after eating a slice
        D                   G
Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake!

Outro:
           G          D           B           C
Though the taste is seductive, it makes me refluxive
     D                   G
Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake