Chords for Clancy Brothers and The Dubliners, Late Late Show
Tempo:
82.7 bpm
Chords used:
E
A
D
D#
F#m
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Ronnie, how are you?
Good evening to you.
You're very welcome and the rest of ye.
Ronnie, could you put into words what these fellas meant for you?
Well, the first week after I got married, Tom paid me rent.
APPLAUSE
Why Ronnie?
I think we had a fiver.
Why so, Ronnie, may we ask?
I thought I hadn't got the fiver.
And there's an awful lot of stories we could tell, but it didn't happen in coffee shops,
so we wouldn't have been able to bear the pain.
I see.
Not many good stories happened in coffee shops anyway.
But musically, Ronnie, I was striving for, musically.
Musically, could you suggest to us what they meant to you?
Well, I'd heard about them.
They'd been in America.
And I was singing in the gay theatre with John Molloy at the time.
And I sang, I got this terrible job.
I had to sing, instead of playing records in between the acts of a play,
I had to go out in front and sing songs, like, long songs, like
You know, uh
Rocks a barn.
Rocks a barn and things like that, you know, 22 verses, come back next Tuesday with the rest of it, you know what I'm saying?
And I got this job.
And I was jealous of these heads over in America getting all their readies for singing.
And I was getting £6 a week, I had to pay readies out of it as well, you know.
So, anyway, I went to see them in 1963 when they came here first, and it was great.
And the first meeting we had with them was Barney and myself, and
I don't think you were in the group, John, at that time.
I'm sorry, old Luke.
I say, poor old Luke, Barney and myself, and all that, we're all there in Cairn on.
And we all arrived in Carrigan Shore, and this show that John Molloy was running,
Dennis Franks was the tour manager.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and people were staying away from this gig in the hundreds.
Millions.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and they were staying away even more than in the hundreds.
So we all went to Dunmore East, all the lads and ourselves.
And Cairn on Bork, and I said, now we'd better not drink much today on account of this gig tonight.
And we didn't drink much.
At that time we could drink a sop.
We had four pints each, I remember.
So we all came back, and John Molloy was delighted.
We were all showing signs of gaggle, you see.
So he could close down the show and he wouldn't have to pay anybody.
So Barney said, who's drunk?
I said, I'll throw him up that thing, that pole, what do you call them things?
Television.
Television, man.
In the middle of the town, it wasn't television at that time, it was radio.
It was an ESB.
An ESB pole.
And Barney shot, who was drunk?
And Barney climbed up to the top of it and began combing his hair in the top, you see.
By which time we'd gathered all the inhabitants of Carrigan Shore and Carrigan Bay and the whole lot,
they were all over to see us, you see.
And Barney gets down, and he wouldn't get down on you, please promise not to arrest him.
So we got down, and both sides of the street were lined up and clapping, you see.
And they all clapped outside, so John said, yous are all sacked.
And we were all sacked, and we all went off the lads and we had a few more.
We went back to Carter's house here.
Carter's, that's right.
Would you ever do us a little bar as a tribute to the lads?
Would you ever stand up there and do us sort of a tag?
I go on, do.
I go on, do.
Sorry, I go on, do.
Up here.
Up here, lads.
Stand up here in the centre where we can see you and hear you.
Up here.
Come on.
No, here, here, here'll do fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Here, yeah, why not?
That'll be, anywhere around there.
Give us a shout of something.
Give us one of the ones we stole from you.
You know, they're looking
They're leaving a Liverpooler.
They're looking as if they weren't expecting you, you see, and they all brought their instruments.
I brought me two.
He might, well, Paddy, will you join [D] in?
Come on, join in here, Paddy.
Come on, join in.
[D#] Paddy Riley, ladies [N] and gentlemen.
Just sign up and you'll get in.
Come on, join in.
Ready.
Don't [F#m] collapse.
[A#] Yeah.
[E] Fine.
[A] Very good.
I love you.
[F#] [E] [A]
Oh, there was a little woman and she lived in a
Wee la [D] wee la [E] wah ya
There was a little woman and she lived in a
Down by the river was [A] a
Down by the river was a
Well, she had a baby three months old
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
She had a baby three months old
Down by the river was [A] a
Well, she had a penknife along a shaft
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] She had a penknife along a shaft
Down by the river was [A]
a
Then she stopped the penknife in the baby's hat
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Stopped the penknife in the baby's hat
Down by the river [A] was a
There was three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door
Down by the river [A] was a
There was two police men and a special branch man
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
Two police men and a special branch man
Down by the river [A] was a
Well, they took her away and they put her in the jail
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] They took her away and they put her in the jail
Down by the river [A] was a
Then they put the rope around her neck
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Put the rope around her neck
Down by the river was [A]
a
Oh, they pulled the rope and she got hung
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Pulled the rope and she got hung
Down by the [A] river saw ya
Well, that was the end of the woman in the wood
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
And that was the end of the baby too
Down by the river saw [A] ya
[N]
[E]
I wouldn't doubt you, Ronnie.
All right, then.
Now, where are we?
Oh, yes, I have to give another clue here, don't I?
Is this the musical one?
Oh, no, it's not.
No, this is number three.
All right, then.
[N] Number three.
Good evening to you.
You're very welcome and the rest of ye.
Ronnie, could you put into words what these fellas meant for you?
Well, the first week after I got married, Tom paid me rent.
APPLAUSE
Why Ronnie?
I think we had a fiver.
Why so, Ronnie, may we ask?
I thought I hadn't got the fiver.
And there's an awful lot of stories we could tell, but it didn't happen in coffee shops,
so we wouldn't have been able to bear the pain.
I see.
Not many good stories happened in coffee shops anyway.
But musically, Ronnie, I was striving for, musically.
Musically, could you suggest to us what they meant to you?
Well, I'd heard about them.
They'd been in America.
And I was singing in the gay theatre with John Molloy at the time.
And I sang, I got this terrible job.
I had to sing, instead of playing records in between the acts of a play,
I had to go out in front and sing songs, like, long songs, like
You know, uh
Rocks a barn.
Rocks a barn and things like that, you know, 22 verses, come back next Tuesday with the rest of it, you know what I'm saying?
And I got this job.
And I was jealous of these heads over in America getting all their readies for singing.
And I was getting £6 a week, I had to pay readies out of it as well, you know.
So, anyway, I went to see them in 1963 when they came here first, and it was great.
And the first meeting we had with them was Barney and myself, and
I don't think you were in the group, John, at that time.
I'm sorry, old Luke.
I say, poor old Luke, Barney and myself, and all that, we're all there in Cairn on.
And we all arrived in Carrigan Shore, and this show that John Molloy was running,
Dennis Franks was the tour manager.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and people were staying away from this gig in the hundreds.
Millions.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and they were staying away even more than in the hundreds.
So we all went to Dunmore East, all the lads and ourselves.
And Cairn on Bork, and I said, now we'd better not drink much today on account of this gig tonight.
And we didn't drink much.
At that time we could drink a sop.
We had four pints each, I remember.
So we all came back, and John Molloy was delighted.
We were all showing signs of gaggle, you see.
So he could close down the show and he wouldn't have to pay anybody.
So Barney said, who's drunk?
I said, I'll throw him up that thing, that pole, what do you call them things?
Television.
Television, man.
In the middle of the town, it wasn't television at that time, it was radio.
It was an ESB.
An ESB pole.
And Barney shot, who was drunk?
And Barney climbed up to the top of it and began combing his hair in the top, you see.
By which time we'd gathered all the inhabitants of Carrigan Shore and Carrigan Bay and the whole lot,
they were all over to see us, you see.
And Barney gets down, and he wouldn't get down on you, please promise not to arrest him.
So we got down, and both sides of the street were lined up and clapping, you see.
And they all clapped outside, so John said, yous are all sacked.
And we were all sacked, and we all went off the lads and we had a few more.
We went back to Carter's house here.
Carter's, that's right.
Would you ever do us a little bar as a tribute to the lads?
Would you ever stand up there and do us sort of a tag?
I go on, do.
I go on, do.
Sorry, I go on, do.
Up here.
Up here, lads.
Stand up here in the centre where we can see you and hear you.
Up here.
Come on.
No, here, here, here'll do fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Here, yeah, why not?
That'll be, anywhere around there.
Give us a shout of something.
Give us one of the ones we stole from you.
You know, they're looking
They're leaving a Liverpooler.
They're looking as if they weren't expecting you, you see, and they all brought their instruments.
I brought me two.
He might, well, Paddy, will you join [D] in?
Come on, join in here, Paddy.
Come on, join in.
[D#] Paddy Riley, ladies [N] and gentlemen.
Just sign up and you'll get in.
Come on, join in.
Ready.
Don't [F#m] collapse.
[A#] Yeah.
[E] Fine.
[A] Very good.
I love you.
[F#] [E] [A]
Oh, there was a little woman and she lived in a
Wee la [D] wee la [E] wah ya
There was a little woman and she lived in a
Down by the river was [A] a
Down by the river was a
Well, she had a baby three months old
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
She had a baby three months old
Down by the river was [A] a
Well, she had a penknife along a shaft
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] She had a penknife along a shaft
Down by the river was [A]
a
Then she stopped the penknife in the baby's hat
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Stopped the penknife in the baby's hat
Down by the river [A] was a
There was three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door
Down by the river [A] was a
There was two police men and a special branch man
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
Two police men and a special branch man
Down by the river [A] was a
Well, they took her away and they put her in the jail
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] They took her away and they put her in the jail
Down by the river [A] was a
Then they put the rope around her neck
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Put the rope around her neck
Down by the river was [A]
a
Oh, they pulled the rope and she got hung
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Pulled the rope and she got hung
Down by the [A] river saw ya
Well, that was the end of the woman in the wood
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
And that was the end of the baby too
Down by the river saw [A] ya
[N]
[E]
I wouldn't doubt you, Ronnie.
All right, then.
Now, where are we?
Oh, yes, I have to give another clue here, don't I?
Is this the musical one?
Oh, no, it's not.
No, this is number three.
All right, then.
[N] Number three.
Key:
E
A
D
D#
F#m
E
A
D
_ Ronnie, how are you?
Good evening to you.
You're very welcome and the rest of ye.
Ronnie, could you put into words what these fellas meant for you?
Well, the first week after I got married, Tom paid me rent.
_ _ APPLAUSE _
Why Ronnie?
I think we had a fiver.
Why so, Ronnie, may we ask?
I thought I hadn't got the fiver.
_ And there's an awful lot of stories we could tell, but it didn't happen in coffee shops,
so we wouldn't have been able to bear the pain.
I see.
Not many good stories happened in coffee shops anyway.
But musically, Ronnie, I was striving for, musically.
Musically, could you suggest to us what they meant to you?
Well, I'd heard about them.
They'd been in America.
And I was singing in the gay theatre with John Molloy at the time.
And I sang, I got this terrible job.
I had to sing, instead of playing records in between the acts of a play,
I had to go out in front and sing songs, like, long songs, like_
You know, uh_
Rocks a barn.
Rocks a barn and things like that, you know, 22 verses, come back next Tuesday with the rest of it, you know what I'm saying?
And I got this job.
And I was jealous of these heads over in America getting all their readies for singing.
And I was getting £6 a week, I had to pay readies out of it as well, you know.
So, anyway, I went to see them in 1963 when they came here first, and it was great.
And the first meeting we had with them was Barney and myself, and_
I don't think you were in the group, John, at that time.
I'm sorry, old Luke.
I say, poor old Luke, Barney and myself, and all that, we're all there in Cairn on.
And we all arrived in Carrigan Shore, and this show that John Molloy was running,
Dennis Franks was the tour manager.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and people were staying away from this gig in the hundreds.
Millions.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and they were staying away even more than in the hundreds.
So we all went to Dunmore East, all the lads and ourselves.
And Cairn on Bork, and I said, now we'd better not drink much today on account of this gig tonight.
And we didn't drink much.
At that time we could drink a sop.
We had four pints each, I remember.
So we all came back, and John Molloy was delighted.
We were all showing signs of gaggle, you see.
So he could close down the show and he wouldn't have to pay anybody. _ _
So Barney said, who's drunk?
I said, I'll throw him up that thing, that pole, what do you call them things?
Television.
Television, man.
In the middle of the town, it wasn't television at that time, it was radio.
It was an ESB.
An ESB pole.
And Barney shot, who was drunk?
And Barney climbed up to the top of it and began combing his hair in the top, you see.
By which time we'd gathered all the inhabitants of Carrigan Shore and Carrigan Bay and the whole lot,
they were all over to see us, you see.
And Barney gets down, and he wouldn't get down on you, please promise not to arrest him. _
So we got down, and both sides of the street were lined up and clapping, you see.
And they all clapped outside, so John said, yous are all sacked.
And we were all sacked, and we all went off the lads and we had a few more.
We went back to Carter's house here.
Carter's, that's right.
_ Would you ever do us a little bar as a tribute to the lads?
Would you ever stand up there and do us sort of a tag?
I go on, do.
I go on, do.
Sorry, I go on, do.
Up here. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ Up here, lads.
Stand up here in the centre where we can see you and hear you.
Up here.
Come on.
No, here, here, here'll do fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Here, yeah, why not?
That'll be, anywhere around there.
Give us a shout of something.
Give us one of the ones we stole from you.
You know, they're looking_
They're leaving a Liverpooler.
They're looking as if they weren't expecting you, you see, and they all brought their instruments.
I brought me two.
_ He might, well, Paddy, will you join [D] in?
Come on, join in here, Paddy.
Come on, join in.
[D#] Paddy Riley, ladies [N] and gentlemen.
Just sign up and you'll get in.
Come on, join in.
Ready.
Don't [F#m] collapse.
_ [A#] Yeah.
[E] Fine.
[A] Very good.
I love you.
_ [F#] _ [E] _ [A] _
Oh, there was a little woman and she lived in a_
Wee la [D] wee la [E] wah ya
There was a little woman and she lived in a_
Down by the river was [A] a_
Down by the river was a_
Well, she had a baby three months old_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
She had a baby three months old_
Down by the river was [A] a_
Well, she had a penknife along a shaft_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] She had a penknife along a shaft_
Down by the river was [A] _
a_
Then she stopped the penknife in the baby's hat_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Stopped the penknife in the baby's hat_
Down by the river [A] was a_
There was three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door_
Down by the river [A] was a_
There was two police men and a special branch man_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
Two police men and a special branch man_
Down by the river [A] was _ a_
Well, they took her away and they put her in the jail_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] They took her away and they put her in the jail_
Down by the river [A] was a_
Then they put the rope around her neck_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Put the rope around her neck_
Down by the river was [A] _
a_
Oh, they pulled the rope and she got hung_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Pulled the rope and she got hung_
Down by the [A] river saw ya_
Well, that was the end of the woman in the wood_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
And that was the end of the baby too_
Down by the river saw _ [A] ya_ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
I wouldn't doubt you, Ronnie.
All right, then.
Now, where are we?
Oh, yes, I have to give another clue here, don't I?
Is this the musical one?
Oh, no, it's not.
No, this is number three.
All right, then.
[N] Number three. _
Good evening to you.
You're very welcome and the rest of ye.
Ronnie, could you put into words what these fellas meant for you?
Well, the first week after I got married, Tom paid me rent.
_ _ APPLAUSE _
Why Ronnie?
I think we had a fiver.
Why so, Ronnie, may we ask?
I thought I hadn't got the fiver.
_ And there's an awful lot of stories we could tell, but it didn't happen in coffee shops,
so we wouldn't have been able to bear the pain.
I see.
Not many good stories happened in coffee shops anyway.
But musically, Ronnie, I was striving for, musically.
Musically, could you suggest to us what they meant to you?
Well, I'd heard about them.
They'd been in America.
And I was singing in the gay theatre with John Molloy at the time.
And I sang, I got this terrible job.
I had to sing, instead of playing records in between the acts of a play,
I had to go out in front and sing songs, like, long songs, like_
You know, uh_
Rocks a barn.
Rocks a barn and things like that, you know, 22 verses, come back next Tuesday with the rest of it, you know what I'm saying?
And I got this job.
And I was jealous of these heads over in America getting all their readies for singing.
And I was getting £6 a week, I had to pay readies out of it as well, you know.
So, anyway, I went to see them in 1963 when they came here first, and it was great.
And the first meeting we had with them was Barney and myself, and_
I don't think you were in the group, John, at that time.
I'm sorry, old Luke.
I say, poor old Luke, Barney and myself, and all that, we're all there in Cairn on.
And we all arrived in Carrigan Shore, and this show that John Molloy was running,
Dennis Franks was the tour manager.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and people were staying away from this gig in the hundreds.
Millions.
And we arrived in Carrigan Shore, and they were staying away even more than in the hundreds.
So we all went to Dunmore East, all the lads and ourselves.
And Cairn on Bork, and I said, now we'd better not drink much today on account of this gig tonight.
And we didn't drink much.
At that time we could drink a sop.
We had four pints each, I remember.
So we all came back, and John Molloy was delighted.
We were all showing signs of gaggle, you see.
So he could close down the show and he wouldn't have to pay anybody. _ _
So Barney said, who's drunk?
I said, I'll throw him up that thing, that pole, what do you call them things?
Television.
Television, man.
In the middle of the town, it wasn't television at that time, it was radio.
It was an ESB.
An ESB pole.
And Barney shot, who was drunk?
And Barney climbed up to the top of it and began combing his hair in the top, you see.
By which time we'd gathered all the inhabitants of Carrigan Shore and Carrigan Bay and the whole lot,
they were all over to see us, you see.
And Barney gets down, and he wouldn't get down on you, please promise not to arrest him. _
So we got down, and both sides of the street were lined up and clapping, you see.
And they all clapped outside, so John said, yous are all sacked.
And we were all sacked, and we all went off the lads and we had a few more.
We went back to Carter's house here.
Carter's, that's right.
_ Would you ever do us a little bar as a tribute to the lads?
Would you ever stand up there and do us sort of a tag?
I go on, do.
I go on, do.
Sorry, I go on, do.
Up here. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ Up here, lads.
Stand up here in the centre where we can see you and hear you.
Up here.
Come on.
No, here, here, here'll do fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Here, yeah, why not?
That'll be, anywhere around there.
Give us a shout of something.
Give us one of the ones we stole from you.
You know, they're looking_
They're leaving a Liverpooler.
They're looking as if they weren't expecting you, you see, and they all brought their instruments.
I brought me two.
_ He might, well, Paddy, will you join [D] in?
Come on, join in here, Paddy.
Come on, join in.
[D#] Paddy Riley, ladies [N] and gentlemen.
Just sign up and you'll get in.
Come on, join in.
Ready.
Don't [F#m] collapse.
_ [A#] Yeah.
[E] Fine.
[A] Very good.
I love you.
_ [F#] _ [E] _ [A] _
Oh, there was a little woman and she lived in a_
Wee la [D] wee la [E] wah ya
There was a little woman and she lived in a_
Down by the river was [A] a_
Down by the river was a_
Well, she had a baby three months old_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
She had a baby three months old_
Down by the river was [A] a_
Well, she had a penknife along a shaft_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] She had a penknife along a shaft_
Down by the river was [A] _
a_
Then she stopped the penknife in the baby's hat_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Stopped the penknife in the baby's hat_
Down by the river [A] was a_
There was three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Three lowered knobs coming knocking on the door_
Down by the river [A] was a_
There was two police men and a special branch man_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
Two police men and a special branch man_
Down by the river [A] was _ a_
Well, they took her away and they put her in the jail_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] They took her away and they put her in the jail_
Down by the river [A] was a_
Then they put the rope around her neck_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Put the rope around her neck_
Down by the river was [A] _
a_
Oh, they pulled the rope and she got hung_
Wee la wee la wah ya
[E] Pulled the rope and she got hung_
Down by the [A] river saw ya_
Well, that was the end of the woman in the wood_
Wee la wee la wah [E] ya
And that was the end of the baby too_
Down by the river saw _ [A] ya_ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _
I wouldn't doubt you, Ronnie.
All right, then.
Now, where are we?
Oh, yes, I have to give another clue here, don't I?
Is this the musical one?
Oh, no, it's not.
No, this is number three.
All right, then.
[N] Number three. _