D                           A      C
O'Sullivan John to the road you're gone
     D             G      D
Far away from your native land
                     C        Am
You've gone with the tinker's daughter
    D         C       D
Far along the road to roam
           C        Am
O'Sullivan John you won't stick it long
          D          C       A
Till your belly will soon be slack
       D        A           D      C
As you roam the road with a mighty load
      D        G       D
And a tool box on your back


[Verse 2]
                            A    C
I met Katie Coffee with her neat baby
  D           G             D
Behind on her back strapped on
                 C           Am
She'd an old ash plant in her hand
   D            C   D
To drive the donkey on
          C        Am
Enquiring at every farmers house,as
D         A        D
Along the road she passed
                         A
And it's where would you get an
    D      C        D               G      D
Old pot to mend,and where would she get an ass

    
[Verse 3]
                             A     C
There's a hairy ass fair in the County Clare
     D               G       D
In a place they call Spancil Hill
                 C           Am
Where my brother James got a wrap of a haimes
         D          A        D
And poor Paddy they tried to kill
                C        Am
They loaded him up in an old ass and cart
    D         C       D
For along the road to go
                   A          D    C
Ah,bad luck to the day that I went away
   D             G       D
To join with the tinkers band