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Muirsheen Durkin by The Dubliners - Guitar Chords

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Version 2

            This is exactly how the Dubliners play it, without a capo.
Basically the whole song just goes D A.

Intro (flutes): D A A D x4

VERSE I:
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       D             A
In the days I went a courtin',
      A             D
I was never tired resortin'.
      D              A
To an ale house or a playhouse,
    A                  D
And many's the house besides
      D               A
But I told me brother Seamus,
       A                D
I'd go off and be right famous,
      D             A
And I never would return again,
        A           D
Until I roamed the worldwide.


CHORUS:
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D                  A
Goodbye, Muirsheen Durkin,
         A                 D
Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'
   D                 A
No more I'll dig for praties,
       A              D
And no longer I'll be fooled
   D                  A
As sure as me name is Carney,
        A          D
I'll be off to Californy
         D               A
Where instead of digging praties,
        A                D
I'll be digging lumps of gold.


Inst. (flutes): D A A D x1


VERSE II:
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     D                A
I've courted girls in Blarney,
      A           D
in Kanturk and in Killarney
                  A           
In passage and in Queenstown, 
     A              D
that is the Cobh of Cork.
    D               A
Goodbye to all this pleasure,
        A              D
I'll be off to take me leisure
        D                     A
And the next time that you'll hear from me, 
          A               D
will be a letter from New York.


CHORUS:
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D                  A
Goodbye, Muirsheen Durkin,
    A                 D
I'm sick and tired of workin'
                     A
No more I'll dig for praties,
       A              D
And no longer I'll be fooled
                      A
As sure as me name is Carney,
        A          D
I'll be off to Californy
                         A
Where instead of digging praties,
        A                D
I'll be digging lumps of gold.


VERSE III:
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D              A
Goodbye to the girls at home,
    A                    D
I'm going far across the foam.
   D               A
To try and make me fortune,
   A        D
in far Amerikay.
        D                   A
There's gold and jewels and plenty,
        A                A
For the poor and for the gentry
    D             A      
And when I return again, 
  A               D
I never more will say:


CHORUS:
-------
D                  A
Goodbye, Muirsheen Durkin,
         A                 D
Sure I'm sick and tired of workin'
   D                 A
No more I'll dig for praties,
       A              D
And no longer I'll be fooled
   D                  A
As sure as me name is Carney,
        A          D
I'll be off to Californy
         D               A
Where instead of digging praties,
        A                D
I'll be digging lumps of gold.


Inst.: D A A D to fadeout. 
        

We also have 37 songs by The Dubliners

• All For Me Grog
• Black Velvet Band
• Carrickfergus
• Come And Join The British Army
• Dirty Old Town
• Donegal Danny
• Dublin In The Rare Old Times
• Fiddlers Green
• Finnegans Wake
• Foggy Dew
• Go To Sea No More
• Hand Me Down My Bible
• Hot Asphalt
• Ill Tell Me Ma
• Im A Rover
• Kelly The Boy From Killane
• Maids When Youre Young
• Mcalpines Fusiliers
• Molly Malone
• Muirsheen Durkin
• On Raglan Road
• Peggy Gordon
• Poor Paddy On The Railway
• Rare Old Mountain Dew
• Rising Of The Moon
• Sam Hall
• Seven Drunken Nights
• Song For Ireland
• The Bonny Shoals Of Herring
• The Fields Of Athenry
• The Holy Ground
• The Leaving Of Liverpool
• The Night Visiting Song
• The Town I Loved So Well
• The Wild Rover
• Whiskey In The Jar
• Whiskey On A Sunday

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