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Tommy Makem does a neat live version of this one where he is beating on a lab stone and pretending to make shoes and stuff while singing the song!

    Dick Darby

    by trad
    Oh me [G] name is Dick [D] Darby I’m a [G] cobbler
    I [G] served me time at the old [F] camp
    some [G] call me an [C] old agi- [G]tator
    but [G] now I’m re- [D] solved to re- [G]pent

    (Chorus:
    I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an idea
    I’ve an inkling of an inkling of an ide-ea-a
    with me roo-boo boo-roo boo-boo randy
    and me lab stone keeps beating away)

    Now me father was hung for sheep stealing
    me mother was burned for a witch
    my sisters a dandy housekeeper
    and I’m a mechanical switch

    (Chorus)

    Ah its forty long years I have traveled
    all by the contents of me pack
    me hammers, me awls and me pinches
    I carry them all on my back

    (Chorus)

    Oh my wife she is humpy, she’s lumpy
    my wife she’s the devil she’s black
    and no matter what I may do with her
    her tongue it goes clickety clack

    (Chorus)

    It was early one fine summer’s mornin
    a little before it was day
    I dipped her three times in the river
    and carelessly bade her “good day!”

    (Chorus)

    X: 71
T:Dick Darby, the Cobbler
M:3/8
L:1/8
K:G
Q:180
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