Lisdoonvarna And Ill Tell Me Ma Uke tab by Christy Moore

5 Chords used in the song: C, D, Am, G, F

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Key: C, G, Am, EmChords
C C
How's it goin' there everybody

From Cork, New York, Dundalk, Gortahork and Glenamaddy
D D
Here we are in the County Clare
Am Am C C
It's a long, long way from here to there
D D
the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher
C C
The Tulla and the Kilfenora
D D
Micho Russell, Doctor Bill
C C
Willie Clancy, Noel Hill
D D
Flutes and fiddles everywhere
C C
If it's music you want
D D
You should go to Clare


[Chorus]

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

D D C C
Everybody needs a break, climb a mountain or jump in a lake
D D C C
Some head after exotic places, others go to the Galway races
D D C C
A A cousin of mine goes pot-holing, a cousin of her's loves Joe Dolan
D D C C
Mattie goes to the South of France, Jim to the dogs, Peter to the dance
D D C C
Summer comes around each year, we go there and they come here
D D
Some jet after...Frijiliana
C C
But I always go to Lisdoonvarna
D D
I always leave on a Thursday night
C C
With me tent and me groundsheet rolled up tight
D D
I like to hit Lisdoon
C C
In around Friday afternoon
D D
This gives me time to get me tent up and my gear together
C C
I don't need to worry about the weather
D D
Ramble in for a pint of stout
C C
You'd never know who'd be hangin' about!
D D
There's a Dutchman playing a mandolin
C C
And a German looking for Liam Óg O'Floinn
D D
And there's Adam, Bono and Garrett Fitzgerald
C C
Gettin' their photos taken for the Sunday World
D D
Finbarr, Charlie and Jim Hand
C C
And they drinkin' pints to bate the band
D D
Why wouldnt they theyre getting it for nothing!


[Chorus]

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


[Chorus]

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


[Chorus]

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

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