Chord Req: How Paddy Stole the Rope

Subject: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: GUEST,Justin
Date: 10 Nov 14 - 08:36 AM

Can anybody help me by supplying the guitar chords to When Paddy Stole the Rope?

I would like to play it down my local pub.

Kind Regards.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: MartinRyan
Date: 10 Nov 14 - 09:08 AM

If it's any help... Sheet music still available at Library of Congress - Malcolm Douglas posted the link many years ago:

Click here

Regards

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Nov 14 - 08:20 PM

D/ About they went, with theft G/ intent
Until the G/ place they were D/ finding
They broke into a G/ country D/ church
That A/ nobody was a'minding
They D/ scraped together G/ all they D/ could
And were prepared to Em/ slope
When D/ Paddy said, "now G/ hold on, D/ Mike.
What G/ have we got for D/ rope

If that's the right version. From the singing of Sean Cannon.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: michaelr
Date: 11 Nov 14 - 06:57 PM

Can someone post the lyrics, please? I can't make out what's printed in the sheet music.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: GUEST,#
Date: 11 Nov 14 - 07:35 PM

http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-lyrics/How_Paddy_Stole_the_Rope.htm

There they are!

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: MartinRyan
Date: 12 Nov 14 - 05:25 AM

The words turn up in several Mudcat threads - including this one, started by yours truly EIGHTEEN years ago!

Click here

Regards

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: Thompson
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 03:55 AM

Ah, an English song mocking supposed Irish criminality and stupidity. Yes, of course that should be revived. Not.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: When Paddy Stole the Rope
From: MartinRyan
Date: 13 Nov 14 - 04:31 AM

I'm reminded of being at a conference in the North of England, way back in the '70's at the height of the IRA campaign in Britain. Some of the delegates, knowing I was Irish, asked "What do Irish people think of those dreadful 'Irish jokes'?". I answered - "They tell them about Kerrymen!". "And what do the Kerrymen do?", they asked. "Put them in books and sell them to Englishmen!", sez I.


I was marginally gilding the lily - the main compiler of such books was from Cork!

Regards.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: How Paddy Stole the Rope
From: Thompson
Date: 14 Nov 14 - 03:04 AM

Ah yes, of course. Plenty of jokes about places we want to patronise; I tell them myself. (Why do Cavan people eat their dinner in a drawer? In case a visitor calls.) But I found that song pretty unpleasant.