Chip chords by The Real McKenzies

Chords with lyrics

🏷Legend:
* - play once
() - optional
! - same chord up the neck

Chords used:

  C5C5  D#5D#5  D5D5  A#5A#5  A#5!  G5G5  G5!  G#5G#5  F5F5
e|---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x------x-----x---|
BB|---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x------x-----x---|
G+G|---5-----8-----7-----3-----x-----x-----x------x-----x---|
D MajorD|---5-----8-----7-----3-----8-----5-----12-----6-----3---|
A augmentedA|---3-----6-----5-----1-----8-----5-----12-----6-----3---|
E MajorE|---x-----x-----x-----x-----6-----3-----10-----4-----1---|

Main bagpipe riff

e|-15---------------------11-------------------------15-----------------------11-------------|
BB|---13-13-11-13-13-13-15----13-13-11-13---11-13-15------13-13-11-13-13-13-15----13-15-11-13-|
G+G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Intro:

Main riff over C5C5 D#5D#5 D5D5 C5C5 x4


Verse 1:

C5C5 *
Chip worked as a boatwright
    C5C5 *
As his father and his gran
C5C5 *
Working in a boatyard
     D#5D#5  D5D5  C5C5
Building on the River Thames
C5C5 *
One day Chip was hard at work
  C5C5 *
The Devil appeared from hell
  C5C5 *
He held a roll of copper
   D#5D#5  D5D5   C5C5
And a bucket full of nails

Pre-Chorus:

  C5C5
The Devil said unto Chip
     (D5D5)
Take these nails and copper roll
   (D#5D#5)
But you also have to take this rat
 (D5D5)        A#5A#5 C5C5
And I will take your soul

Chip despised the rat
    D#5D#5
And the rat squealed and hissed
    A#5A#5
But the bucket o' nails and copper
   D#5D#5   D5D5 C5C5
Were too much to resist


Interlude:


G#5G#5 A#5! G#5G#5 F5F5

Main riff over C5C5 D#5D#5 D5D5 C5C5 x2


Verse 2:

C5C5 *
Chip went straight to work
   C5C5 *
He'd get rid of the rat
     C5C5 *
And there would not be a problem
     D#5D#5  D5D5    C5C5
With his death after the fact
    C5C5 *
But the devil rat wouldn't die
  C5C5 *
No matter how hard he tried
  C5C5 *
The rat attacked the boatwright
    D#5D#5 D5D5     C5C5
And he bit him in the eye


Pre-Chorus:

  C5C5
It seemed as if the river rats
  (D5D5)
Fell under Satan's spell
  (D#5D#5)
They followed Chip around
      (D5D5)     A#5A#5 C5C5
And made his life a living hell

He slowly lost his mind
  D#5D#5
He lost his family
  A#5A#5
He lost his job
          D#5D#5 D5D5 C5C5
And had to join the Kings' Navy

G#5G#5 A#5! G#5G#5 F5F5


Chorus:

 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     D#5D#5
As Satan is my master
    G#5G#5   A#5!
I will get you Chip
 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     A#5A#5  G5G5
As Satan is my master
G5G5
I'm gonna get you


Interlude:

This plays over the chord progression:

e|------------------------------------|
BB|------------------------------------|
G+G|------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------------------5----|
A augmentedA|-3---3-1-3-5---5-3-5-6---6-5-6---6--|
E MajorE|------------------------------------|

C5C5 D5D5 D#5D#5 G5! D#5D#5 x2

C5C5 D5D5 D#5D#5 G5! D#5D#5 G5G5 A#5! C5C5

Main riff over C5C5 D#5D#5 D5D5 C5C5 x2


Verse 3:

  C5C5 *
The rats chased Chip
N.C
Up the gangplank of the ship
N.C
And they bit him and they tortured him

e|-----11-------------|
BB|-15-----13-15-11-13-|
G+G|--------------------|
D MajorD|--------------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------|
E MajorE|--------------------|


Until he finally flipped
  C5C5 *
He sniveled to the captain
  C5C5 *
To turn around his rig
  C5C5 *       C5C5 *
The captain spied his madness
    C5C5
And he chucked him in the brig


Pre-Chorus:

  C5C5
The devil rat had his man
 (D5D5)
He knew just what to do
(D#5D#5)
He'd command the rats
       (D5D5)     A#5A#5 C5C5
And through the planks they'd chew

The water rushed in
    D#5D#5
And the ship went down
    A#5A#5
She was smashed around the rocks
       D#5D#5 D5D5   C5C5
On which the rats danced around

G#5G#5 A#5! G#5G#5 F5F5


Chorus:

 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     D#5D#5
As Satan is my master
    G#5G#5   A#5!
I will get you Chip

 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     D#5D#5
As Satan is my master
    G#5G#5   A#5!
I will get you Chip

 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     D#5D#5
As Satan is my master
    G#5G#5   A#5!
I will get you Chip

 C5C5      D#5D#5
A augmentedA lemon grows a pip
 G#5G#5        A#5!
A augmentedA yard will build a ship
  C5C5     D#5D#5  G5G5
As Satan is my master
       C5C5 *