Artist: | The Irish Rovers (English) |
User: | Dan Field |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Miss Fogarty's Cake The Irish Rovers
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As I sat in my window last evening, a letter was brought round to me
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A little gilt-edged invitation sayin' "Gilhooley come over to tea
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Each Christmas the Fogarty's sent it. So I went just for old friendships sake
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And the first thing they gave me to tackle, was a slice of Miss Fogarty's cake
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and there were plums and prunes and cherries,
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There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too
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There were nuts and, cloves and berries,
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And a crust that was nailed on with glue
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There were caraway seeds in abundance,
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Such that work up a fine stomach ache
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That could kill a man twice after eating a slice
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Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake
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Miss Mulligan wanted to try it, but really it wasn't no use
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For we work'd on it over an hour but a piece of wouldn't come loose
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Till Kelly came in with a hatchet, and Murphy came in with a saw
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But Miss Fogarty's cake had the power for to paralyze any man's jaw
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and there were plums and prunes and cherries,
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There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too
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There were nuts and, cloves and berries,
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And a crust that was nailed on with glue
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There were caraway seeds in abundance,
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Such that work up a fine stomach ache
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That could kill a man twice after eating a slice
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Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake
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Miss Fogarty proud as a peacock, kept smiling and talking away
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Till she tripped over Flanagan's brogans and spilt the potcheed in her tay!
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Aw, Gilhooley she says you're not eatin, try a little bit more of me cake
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Oh no Miss Fogarty says I, any more and my stomach would break
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and there were plums and prunes and cherries,
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There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too
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There were nuts and, cloves and berries,
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And a crust that was nailed on with glue
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There were caraway seeds in abundance,
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Such that work up a fine stomach ache
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That could kill a man twice after eating a slice
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Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake
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Maloney was sick with the colic, O'Donnell's a pain in his head
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McNulty laid down on the sofa, and he swore that he wished he was dead
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Miss Bailey went into hysterics and there she did wriggle and shake
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And all of us swore we were poisoned from 'atin' Miss Fogarty's cake
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and there were plums and prunes and cherries,
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There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, too
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There were nuts and, cloves and berries,
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And a crust that was nailed on with glue
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There were caraway seeds in abundance,
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Such that work up a fine stomach ache
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That could kill a man twice after eating a slice
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Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake
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Yes it could kill a man twice after eating a slice
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Of Miss Fogarty's Christmas cake