Old Dun Cow

X:12308
T:Old Dun Cow
S:Digital Tradition, olduncow
Z:dt:olduncow
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=84
W:Some  friends and I in a public house
W:Were playing  dominoes  one night
W:When into the room a fireman came,
W:His face all chalky white
W:"What's up?" says Brown, "Have you seen a ghost?"
W:"Have you seen your Aunt Moriah?"
W:"Oh  my Aunt Moriah be buggered," says he,
W:"The bleeding  pubs  on fire"
W:
W:"Oh," says Brown, "What a bit of luck
W:Everybody follow me
W:It's down to the cellar if the fire's not there
W:Then we'll have a grand old spree"
W:So we all went down with good old Brown
W:And the booze we could not miss
W:And we hadn't been there ten minutes or more
W:Till we were quite like this
W:
W:  Oh, there was Brown, up side down
W:  Mopping up the whiskey on the floor
W:  "Booze, booze" the firemen cried
W:  As they come a knockin' at the door
W:  "Well don't let em in till it's all mopped up
W:  Somebody shouted, "MacIntyre"
W:  And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk
W:  When the Old Dun Cow caught fire
W:
W:Then Smith ran over to the port wine tub
W:And gave it just a few hard knocks
W:He started taking off his pantaloons
W:Likewise his shoes and socks
W:"Oh no," says Brown, "That t'ain't allowed
W:You can't do that there
W:Don't be washing your trotters in the port wine tub
W:When we got some Guinesses beer"
W:
W:Then there came a mighty crash
W:Half the bloody room caved in
W:And we were drownded by the fireman's hose
W:Though we were almost happy
W:So we got some tacks and some wet old sacks
W:And we packed ourselves inside
W:And we sat there getting bleery eyed drunk
W:When the Old Dun Cow caught fire
W:
W:It's down to the cellar if the fire's not there
W:Then we'll have a grand old spree"
W:So we all went down with good old Brown
W:And the booze we could not miss
W:And we hadn't been there ten minutes or more
W:Till we were quite like this
W:
W:  Oh, there was Brown, up side down
W:  Mopping up the whiskey on the floor
W:  "Booze, booze" the firemen cried
W:  As they come a knockin' at the door
W:  "Well don't let em in till it's all mopped up
W:  Somebody shouted, "MacIntyre"
W:  And we all got blue blind paralytic drunk
W:  When the Old Dun Cow caught fire
W:
W:Then Smith ran over to the port wine tub
W:And gave it just a few hard knocks
W:He started taking off his pantaloons
W:Likewise his shoes and socks
W:"Oh no," says Brown, "That t'ain't allowed
W:You can't do that there
W:Don't be washing your trotters in the port wine tub
W:When we got some Guinesses beer"
W:
W:Then there came a mighty crash
W:Half the bloody room caved in
K:Eb
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c/c/c BG|cc BG|FE DC|G3G|
ED C2|c/c/c/c/ G2|c/c/c/c/ BF|G3c/d/|\
ec d/d/B|c/c/G A3/2A/|GF EF|G4|
ED C2|c/c/c/c/ G2|c/c/c/c/ BG|G3G|\
cc/c/ B/B/G/G/|cc BG|FE/E/ DC|G3G/G/|
ED CG|E/D3/2 CF/F/|GG Gc|G3c/d/|\
e/e/c dB|c/c/G AA|GF EF|G2 G2|
ED C2|cc G2|G/G/G/G/ G/F/E/F/|G4|\
c2 B3/2B/|cc BG|FE/E/ D/D/C/C/|G3G|
ED/D/ CG/G/|ED C2|GG/G/ G/F/E/F/|G3c/d/|\
ec dB|c/c/G/G/ AA/A/|GF EF|G2 ||

Alternative sources for this tune:

• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/atrilcoral.com/n-o/0701
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/konzertina.org/Old_Dun_Cow/0000
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/melnets_big_abc_file/09588
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/mucl.de/~mdoering/dt-songs/0148
• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/terra.es/personal8/niltoni/n-o/0701

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