• Song:

    Rare Old Mountain Dew

  • Artist:

    Dubliners

  • Album:

    Ireland's Finest

This is from the live version,
   Nice and easy chords, grand fun to play
   and gets anyone listening to you wondering
   what the feck a skideri-diddle-dum is, as they sing along.
                     As always any mistakes are mine
                                                      - flatwound -

                     THE RARE OLD MOUNTAIN DEW

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Where the grasses grow,   And the waters flow,   In a free and easy way
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But give me enough,   Of the rare ol' stuff,   That's made near Galway Bay
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Come goughers all,   From Donegal,    Sligo and Leitrim too
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And we'll give 'em the slip,And we'll take a sip, Of the rare ol mountain dew

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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-ey-day
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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-dum-day

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There's a neat little still At the foot of the hill
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Where the smoke curls up to the sky
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By the whiff and the smell, You can plainly tell
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That there's poteen brewin' nearby
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For it fills the air, With a perfume rare, And betwixt both me and you
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And it's home we go, With a pint or bowl, Or a bucket full a mountain dew

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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-ey-day
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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-dum-day

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Now learned men,   Who use the pen,   Have written your praises high
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Of the rare poteen, From Ireland green, That's made from wheat and rye
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So, Away with yer pills, It'll cure all ills, Be ya, Pagan, Christian or Jew
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So take off yer coat, And grease yer throat, With a bucketfull of mountain dew

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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-ey-day
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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-dum-day

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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-ey-day
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  Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-diddle-dum, Skideri-um-a-di, a-diddle-dum-day
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