{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1915993,"song":"Arthur Mcbride","artist":"Paul Brady","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11429979-arthur-mcbride-chords-by-paul-brady/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1915993?type=chord","rating":4.87695,"votes":222,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh me and my cousin one Arthur McBride[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs we went a-walking down by the seaside,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow mark what followed and what did betide[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor it being on Christmas morning.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd for recreation we went on a tramp[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we met Sergeant Napper and Corporal Vamp.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the little wee drummer intending to camp[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the day being pleasant and charming.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\n“Good morning, good morning” the Sergeant did cry.”[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\n“And the same to you gentlemen,” we did reply[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIntending no harm as we meant to pass by[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor it being on Christmas morning.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut says he “My fine fellows if you will enlist[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt’s ten guineas in gold I will slip in your fists[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd a crown in the bargain for to kick up the dust[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd drink the King’s health in the morning.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor a soldier he leads a very fine life[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he always is blessed with a charming young wife,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd he pays all his debts without sorrow and strife[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd always lives pleasant and charming.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd a soldier he always is decent and clean[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the finest of clothing he’s constantly seen[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhile other poor fellows look dirty and mean[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd sup on thin gruel in the morning.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSays Arthur, “I wouldn’t be proud of your clothes[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor you’ve only the lend of them, as I suppose,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd you dare not change them one night for you know[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIf you do you’ll be flogged in the morning.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd although that we are single and free,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nWe take great delight in our own company[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd we have no desire strange faces to see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAlthough that your offers are charming.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we have no desire to take your advance,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll hazards and dangers we barter on chance.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor you would have no scruples for to send us to France[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere we would get shot without warning.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\n“Oh no,” says the Sergeant, “I’ll have no such chat[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nAnd I neither will take it from spalpeen or brat[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor if you insult me with one other word[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI’ll cut off your heads in the morning.”[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd then Arthur and I we soon drew our odds[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we scarce gave them time for to draw their own blades[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen a trusty shillelagh came over their heads[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd bade them take that as fair warning.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd their old rusty rapiers that hung by their sides[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe flung them as far as we could in the tide[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\n“Now take them out, devils,” cried Arthur McBride,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]      \r\n“And temper their edge in the morning.”[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]         \r\nAnd the little wee drummer we flattened his pow[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we made a football of his rowdy dow dow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThrew it in the tide for to rock and to roll[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd bade it a tedious returning.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd we having no money, paid them off in cracks[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we paid no respect to their two bloody backs,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut we lathered them there like a pair of wet sacks[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd left them for dead in the morning.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd so to conclude and to finish disputes[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe obligingly asked if they wanted recruits,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nFor we were the lads who would give them hard clouts[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd bid them look sharp in the morning.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 9]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh me and my cousin one Arthur McBride[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAs we went a-walking down by the seaside,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nNow mark what followed and what did betide[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor it being on Christmas morning.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 9]","chords":["G","D","C","Am","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}