St Patrick Was A Gentleman chords by The Wolfe Tones

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: G

Flute 🎸 Intro:

N.C.

🎸 Verse 1:
      D              G              D                 A
Saint Patrick was a gentleman, he came from decent people
   D                  G                D      A      D
He built a church in Dublin town and on it put a steeple
    D             G               D             A
His father was a Gallagher, his mother was a Grady
    D                    G              D      A7     D
His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy and his uncle was a Brady

🎸 Chorus:
    D                     G
And here's to bold Saint Paddy's fist
   D               A
he was a saint so clever
   D                    G
he gave the snakes and toads a twist
    D         A     D
and banished them forever.

🎸 Instrumental:
D    |G    |D    |A    :
D    |G    |D  A  |D    :

🎸 Verse 2:
        D              G                     D             A
There's not a mile in Eireann's isle where dirty vermin muster
    D                 G                  D         A        D
But there he put his dear forefoot and murdered them in clusters
               D                     G        D               A
The toads went hop, the frogs went flop, slapaste into the water
    D                 G           D          A7          D
The beasts committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter

🎸 Chorus:
    D                     G
And here's to bold Saint Paddy's fist
   D               A
he was a saint so clever
   D                    G
he gave the snakes and toads a twist
    D         A     D
and banished them forever.

🎸 Instrumental:
D    |G    |D    |A    :
D    |G    |D  A  |D    : x2

🎸 Verse 3:
    D                  G              D                 A
The Wicklow hills are very high and so's the hill of Howth, sir
    D                    G                   D       A          D
But there's a hill much higher still, much higher than them both, sir
D                G                     D                   A
From the top of this high hill Saint Patrick preached a sermon
D                  G                D         A7       D
Drove the frogs into the bogs and banished all the vermin

🎸 Chorus:
   D                   G
Success to bold Saint Paddy's fist
   D               A
he was a saint so clever
   D                    G
he gave the snakes and toads a twist
    D         A     D
and banished them forever.

🎸 Chorus:
D    |G    |D    |A    :
D    |G    |D  A  |D    :

🎸 Verse 4:
   D                 G                  D              A
No wonder that them Irish lads should be so gay and frisky
D                   G                    D        A       D
Sure Saint Patrick taught them that as well as making whiskey
   D                G                     D             A
No wonder that the saint himself should understand distilling
    D             G                    D        A7   D
His mother had a shebeen shop in the town of Enniskillen

🎸 Chorus:
   D                   G
Success to bold Saint Paddy's fist
   D               A
he was a saint so clever
   D                    G
he gave the snakes and toads a twist
    D         A     D
and banished them forever. x2