Artist: | The Dubliners (English) |
User: | Klaus Peter |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Phil the Fluter's Ball
Written by Percy French,
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1 Have you heard of Phil the Fluter,
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Of the town of Bally-muck?
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The times were going hard with him,
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In fact the man was broke.
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So he sent an invitation
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To his neighbours, one and all
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As how he'd like their company
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That evening at a ball.
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2 And when writin' out
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He was careful to suggest to them,
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That if they found a hat of his
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Con-venient to the dure,(=door)
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The more they put in,
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When-ever he re-quested them
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The better would the music be
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For batte-rin' the flure.(=floor)
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With a toot on the flute,
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And a twiddle on the fiddle-Oh;
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Hopping in the middle,
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like a herrin' on the griddle-Oh.
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Up, down, hands around,
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And crossing to the wall
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Sure hadn't we the gaiety
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At Phil the Fluter's ball.
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3 There was Mister Denis Doherty,
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Who kept a running dog;
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There was little crooked Paddy,
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From the Tiraloughett bog;
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There was boys from every Barony,
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And girls from ev'ry 'art'
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And the beautiful Miss Bradys
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In their private ass and cart.
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4 A-long with them came
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bouncing Mrs. Cafferty,
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Little Micky Mulligan
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Was also to the fore,
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Rose, - Su-zanne, -
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And Margaret O'Rafferty,
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The flow'r_of Ard_Na_Gullion,
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And the pride of Petra-vore.
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With a toot on the flute,
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And a twiddle on the fiddle-Oh;
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Hopping in the middle,
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like a herrin' on the griddle-Oh.
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Up, down, hands around,
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And crossing to the wall
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Sure hadn't we the gaiety
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At Phil the Fluter's ball.
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5 First, little Micky Mulligan
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Got up to show them how,
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And then the widow Cafferty
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Steps out and makes her bow.
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'I'll dance you off your legs', sez she,
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'As sure as you were born,
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If_ye'll only make the piper play,
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"The hare was in the corn."'
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6 So Phil plays up
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To the best of his ability,
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The ladies and the gentlemen
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Be-gin to do their share;
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'Faith' then Mick,
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'It's you that has a-gility:
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Be-gob an' Mrs. Cafferty,
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Ye're leppin' like a hare!'
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With a toot on the flute,
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And a twiddle on the fiddle-Oh;
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Hopping in the middle,
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like a herrin' on the griddle-Oh.
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Up, down, hands around,
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And crossing to the wall
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Sure hadn't we the gaiety
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At Phil the Fluter's ball.
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7 Then Phil the fluter tipped a wink
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To little crooked Pat,
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'I think it's nearly time,' sez he,
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'For passin' round the hat.'
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So Paddy pass'd the caubeen round,
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And looking very cute,
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Said, 'Ye've got to pay the piper
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When he tootles on the flute.'
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8 Then all joined in
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With the greatest jovi-ality,
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Covering the buckle,
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And the shuffle, and the cut;
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Jigs were danced
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Of the very finest quality,
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But_the_widow bate the company
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At 'hand-ling the foot.'
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With a toot on the flute,
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And a twiddle on the fiddle-Oh;
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Hopping in the middle,
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like a herrin' on the griddle-Oh.
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Up, down, hands around,
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And crossing to the wall
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Sure hadn't we the gaiety
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At Phil the Fluter's ball.