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Michael Was Hearty by Jake Xerxes Fussell
Michael Was Hearty
Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
G
[Verse]
D Em G C
Michael was hearty, Michael was young
Em D
High was the step in the jig that he sprung
D Em G C
He had good looks, Lord, and sootherin’ tongue
G Bm C
He wanted a girl with a fortune
D Em G C
Nanny was grey-eyed, and Nanny was tall
Em D
Fair was the face hidden under her shawl
D Em G C
For he loved her the best of them all
G Bm C
She hadn’t a penny to a fortune
D Em G C
So he bead a look out for a likelier match
Em D
When he married a girl who was counted a catch
D Em G C
Ugly as need be, with a dark little patch
G Bm C
“Hell, that’s just a trifle,” they told her
D Em G C
So she’d brought him her good-lookin’ gold to admire
Em D
She brought him her good-lookin’ cows to his barn
D Em G C
Far from good-lookin’, she’d sit by the fire
G Bm C
And paid him the trifle he told her
{Break}
D Em G C
And he met pretty Nan when a month had gone by
Em D
He fought like a fool to get round her, he tried
D Em G C
With a smile on her lips and a spark in her eye
G Bm C
“How is the woman who owns you?”
D Em G C
And it’s never been tellin’ the life that he’s led
Em D
Sure many’s the night that he’s wished himself dead
D Em G C
For the sake of the two eyes in pretty Nan’s head
G Bm C
And the tongue of the woman who owns him
{Break}
D Em G C
Michael was hearty, Michael was young
Em D
High was the step in the jig that he sprung
D Em G C
He had good looks, Lord, and sootherin’ tongue
G Bm C
He wanted a girl with a fortune
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