Arthur Mc Bride (Key E)
Intro: E (2 bars)
I had a first cousin called Arthur Mc Bride, he and I took a stroll down by the seaside
A seeking good fortune and what might betide, 'twas just as the day was a dawning
Then after resting we both took a tramp, we met Sergeant Harper and Corporal Cramp
Besides the wee drummer who beat up for camp with his rowdy dow dow in the morning
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He says my young fellow if you will enlist a Guinea you quickly shall have in your fist
Besides a Crown for to kick up the dust and drink the King's health in the morning
Had we been such fools as to take the advance the wee bitter morning we had to run chance
For you'd think it no scruple to send us to France where we would be killed in the morning

He says "My young fellows if I hear but one word I instantly now will out with my sword
And into your bodies as strength will afford so now my gay devils take warning"
But Arthur and I we took in the odds we gave them no chance to lunge out their swords
Our whacking Shelelaghs came over their heads and paid them right smart in the morning

As for the wee drummer we rifled his pouch and we made a football of his rowdy dow dow
And into the ocean to rock and to row and bade him a tedious returning
As for the old rapier that hung by his side we flung it as far as we could in the tide
"To the devil I bid you" says Arthur Mc Bride "to temper your steel in the morning"
Play out with Instrumental Verse
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Arrangement by Frank Lennon

Arthur Mc Bride
Bass
Piano
Guitar
Strings
Melody  piccolo
Drums
Arthur Mc Bride
Key E
Arranged by Frank Lennon
flennon@indigo.ie
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