Lyr/Chord Req: On Mother Kelly's Doorstep (Stevens

Subject: Chord Req: On Mother kellys doorstep
From: widowmaker
Date: 25 Jan 09 - 01:27 PM

Hi Catters I need to do this song this week for a Do any idea of the chords prferably in C or G or thereabouts your help greatly appreciated

Subject: RE: Lyr Add / Chord Add: On Mother kellys doorstep
From: Joan from Wigan
Date: 26 Jan 09 - 01:42 PM

I can't promise that these are the same chords as on the record, but they work, in the key of C:

On (G7)Mother Kelly's (F)door(G7)step,
Down Paradise (C)Row.
I'd (G7)sit alonga Nellie,
She'd sit alonga (C)Joe.
She (F)had a (G7)little (Am)hole in her frock, (Em)hole in her shoe,
(F)Hole in her sock where her (C)toe peeped through,
But (D7)Nellie was the smartest down our (G7)alley.

On Mother Kelly's (F)door(G7)step,
I'm wondering (C)now
If (G7)little gal Nellie
Remembers (C)Joe, her beau,
And (F)does (G7)she (Am)love me (G7)like she (C)used to
On (G7)Mother Kelly's (F)door(G7)step,
Down Paradise (C)Row?

Subject: RE: Chord Req: On Mother kellys doorstep
From: widowmaker
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 01:47 AM

Thanks Joan that was excellent, Thanks for your help

Subject: RE: Chord Req: On Mother kellys doorstep
From: bubblyrat
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 06:54 PM

Interesting name,that---"Widowmaker".   That's what the F104 Lockheed "Starfighter" was known as in service with the German Air Force in the 1960s (with good reason !!). Sorry !

Subject: Lyr Add: ON MOTHER KELLY'S DOORSTEP (Stevens)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 May 11 - 01:09 PM

The sheet music can be seen at The National Library of Australia:


ON MOTHER KELLY'S DOORSTEP
Words and music by George A. Stevens
Sydney: Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 1925.

1. I've just been lingering all alone down Paradise Row.
When I was a kiddie, I'd a sweetheart, and down there we would go.
I'd call her Nelly, and she'd call me Joe, and we would romp there hand in hand.
Then we'd both sit down on a doorstep there and we'd picture the future grand.

CHORUS: On Mother Kelly's doorstep, down Paradise Row,
I'd sit along o' Nelly; she'd sit along o' Joe.
She'd got a little hole in her frock, hole in her shoe,
Hole in her sock where her toe peeped through,
But Nelly was the smartest down our alley.
On Mother Kelly's doorstep, I'm wondering now
If li'l gal Nelly remembers Joe, her beau,
And does she love me like she used to,
On Mother Kelly's doorstep down Paradise Row?

2. The cobblestones were a meadow sweet to Nelly and me.
The smoky chimney on the housetop was a beautiful tree,
And old Brown's donkey was a big baa-lamb, and Mother Kelly in the house,
On a washday holding her pail, was Mary the milkmaid milking cows.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chord Req: On Mother Kelly's Doorstep (Stevens
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 May 21 - 05:34 PM

Joe - needs cleanup

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chord Req: On Mother Kelly's Doorstep (Stevens
From: GUEST,threelegsoman
Date: 05 May 21 - 02:51 AM

I uploaded a version on YouTube seven years ago. I sang it in the key Bb but using G chord shapes with the capo on the 3rd fret:

On Mother Kelly's Doorstep

The chords and lyrics can be found in the accompanying information below the video.