Water Is Alright in Tay (chord chart)
A favorite Clancy Brother’s rendition!
(Don’t forget, I’m playing two shows on St. Patrick’s Day:
- Noon to 4 PM at the grand opening of the Black Rose in Lansing, MI – info
- 5:30- 8:30 at Lu & Carl’s in Brighton, MI – info
Hope to see you there!)
Water Is Alright in Tay – Clancy Brothers
The French drink wine [C], the English tea [G]
The Yankee gulps his hot black coffee [C]
The child drinks milk nine times a day [G]
The Scotsman sips his whiskey toddy [C]
You can keep you wine [C] and keep your tea! [C]
My curse on him that gives [C] me coffee! [G]
I’ll a porter [F], if I may [G]
It makes me feel content and happy [C]
Chorus
Porter quaffed down with a laugh [G]
The gentry have their aching livers [C]
Water is all right in tea [G]
For fish, and things that swim in rivers [C]
The poor man and the beggar, too [C]
The poet in the corner thinking [G]
If they’d money enough to spend [F]
It’s pints of porter [G] they’d be drinking [C]
Chorus
The miser hoards and stores his gold.
The bee collects the summer honey.
When that miser’s dead and cold
Someone else will kiss his money!
Chorus
Some go in for counting beads.
More go in for chasing women.
The scholar stays at home and reads.
Give me the glass with porter in it.
Listen to this song on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/7pOKmoOBN0XkYryiBd1Mni
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