The old turf fire

X:1     %Music
T:The old turf fire
B:Singing Together, Spring 1976, BBC Publications
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
M:4/4     %Meter
L:1/8     %
K:F
F3/2A/ |A2 D2 (D3/2E/) F3/2G/ |A2 D2 D3 
w:Oh, the old turf fire_ and the hearth swept clean, 
E/D/ |C3/2=B,/ C3/2D/ E3/2D/ E3/2F/ | G3/2E/ C3/2D/ G3 
w:There is no-one half so hap-py as my-self and Pad-dy Keane; 
F/E/ |D3/2D/ D3/2D/ d3/2d/ c3/2d/ |e3/2d/ c3/2A/ c2 
w:With the ba-by in the cra-dle you could hear her mam-my say 
(3:2A=Bc |d3/2c/ A3/2G/ F3/2D/ A3/2G/ | F3/2D/ D3/2C/ D2
w:"Would-n't you go to sleep, A-lan-na, till I wet your dad-dy's tay"
 F3/2G/ |A2 D3/2D/ D3/2E/ F3/2G/ |A3/2G/ A3/2=B/ c3 
w: 'Oh the man that I work for is a rich-er man than me, 
(B/A/) |G3/2C/ C3/2D/ (E3/2D/) E3/2F/ |G3/2E/ C3/2E/ G3
w:But_ some-how in this world,_ feth, we ne-ver can a-gree;
 F/E/ |(D3/2D/) D3/2D/ (d3/2d/) c3/2d/ |e3/2d/ c3/2A/ c2 
w: He has big_ tow-'ring man--sions and cas-tles o-ver all 
((3:2A=Bc) |d3/2c/ (3:2AAG F3/2D/ A3/2G/ | F3/2D/ D3/2C/ D4 |]
w:But__ sure I would-n't ex-change with him my lit-tle mar-ble hall." 

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• trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/mirror/folkinfo.org/old_turf_fire/0000

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