Sullivans John

G D/F# G F Oh, Sullivan's John, to the road you've gone G D/F# G Far away from your country home F You've gone with the tinker's daughter G D/A For along the road to roam G F Oh, Sullivan's John you won't stick it long G D/F# Till your belly will soon get slack G D/F# G F As along the road with a mighty load G D/F# G And a toodlebox on your back D/F# G F And it's Katy Mulvay with her neat baby G D/F# G Behind on her back, strapped on F She'd a long (?) stick into her hand G D/A For to drive her donkey on G F Enquiring at every farmhouse G D/F# As along the road she would pass G D/F# G F Oh, it's, "Where would I get an old pot to mend?" G D/F# G Or it's, "Where would I buy an ass?" D/F# G F There's an ass selling fair in the County Clare G D/F# G At a place they call Spancel Hill F Where my brother Bill 'ceived a rap on the head G D/A And poor Paddy they tried to k**l G F They bundled him up in a donkey 'n cart G D/F# All along the road to sand G D/F# G F Oh, bad luck to the day from my home I did stray G D/F# G For to join with a tinker's band D/F# G F And it's Sullivan's John, to the road you've gone G D/F# G Far away from your country home F You've gone with the tinker's daughter G D/A For along the road to roam G F Well, Sullivan's John you won't stick it long G D/F# Till your belly will soon get slack G D/F# G F As along the road with a mighty load G D/F# G And a toodlebox on your back