Don’s recording with shitty drum
Only for the recitative intro, during “I spent it in good company”: Skip the G and D, and also replace A with D. This is kind of optional, and is how you’d hear it in the Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Carnegie Hall concert from 1963
So it looks like this just for the intro:
Bm D
I spent it in good company
Here is the tab for how I play “All I’ve done for want of wit”
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And all---- I've--- done,
for want--- of--- wit
Maybe easier?
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And all---- I've--- done,
for want--- of--- wit
Here’s the whole song
[Intro/Verse 1]
Bm G D A7
Oh all the money that e'er I spent
Bm G D A
I spent it in good company
Bm G D A7
And all the harm that e'er I've done
Bm G D A G Bm
Alas, it was to none but me
[Chorus 1]
D G D D G D
And all I've done for want of wit
G/E A/C D A7
To memory now I can't recall
Bm (Bm) D A7
So fill to me the parting glass
Bm G D A G Bm
Good night and joy be with you all
[Verse 2]
If I had money enough to spend
And leisure time to sit awhile
There is a fair maid in this town
That sorely has my heart beguiled
[Chorus 2]
Her rosy cheeks and ruby lips
I own she has my heart enthralled
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be with you all
[Instrumental]
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A G Bm
[Verse 3]
Oh all the comrades that e'er I've had
They're sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I've had
They’d wish me one more day to stay
[Chorus 3]
But since it falls unto my lot
That I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
Good night and joy be with you all
[Instrumental]
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A
Bm G D A G Bm