Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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As I sat at
my window one evening,
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the mailman delivered to me
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A little gilt -edged invitation, saying,
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D
Won't you come over to tea?
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When I found the O 'Leary's had sent it,
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I went just for old friendship's sake
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And the first thing they served
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Was a slice of Miss O 'Leary's cake
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There were plums and prunes
and cherries
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And citrons and raisins and
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Nutmeg, cloves, and berries,
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D
and the icing was light as a dew
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There was sugar and spice in abundance,
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sure it was something an angel would bake
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You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
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Miss O 'Leary's Irish Fruit Cake
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Mr s. Milligan had twenty helpings,
though she weighed two
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hundred and four
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The cake made her
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light as a feather,
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ceiling and floor
Then she floated right
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up through the chimney,
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and met Timoror coming down
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She said, let us have one slice together,
G
and I'll fly with you all over town
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There were plums and prunes and cherries,
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C
and citrons and raisins and cinnamon too
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Nutmeg, cloves and berries,
Em
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D
and the icing was light as a dew
G
There was sugar and spice in abundance,
sure it was something an
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D
angel would bake
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G
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A
You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
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G
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D
Miss O 'Leary's Irish fruitcake
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Miss O 'Leary's proud mother was beaming
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an d smiling and blinking away
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Then she fell over
Then she said, Flanagan,
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And Flanagan said, with a shake,
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Sure, if this is a way that
you're servin'
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You can toss me ten slices of cake
There were plums and prunes
and cherries
D
G
And citrons and raisins and cinnamon,
too
A
G
Nutmeg, cloves, and berries
A
D
And the icing was light as the dew
G
There was sugar and spice in abundance,
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A
sure it was something
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G
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A
You would kiss a gal twice after eating a slice of
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G
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A
D
Miss O 'Leary's Irish fruitcake
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I had sworn that I'd never be married,
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a bachelor forever I'd be
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Until I went to the O 'Leary's
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and I tasted that cake at the tea
But my bachelorhood
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One taste made me long for a wife
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G
For that evening I asked Miss O 'Leary
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To do all of my baking for life
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G
There were plums and prunes and cherries
C
And citrons and raisins and cinnamon too
G
C
Nutmeg, cloves and berries
Em
A
D
And the icing was light as the dew
Am
There was sug ar and
D
G
spice in abundance
Em
A
D
Sure it was something an angel would bake
G
He would kiss a gal twice
C
A
after eating a slice
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Am
Of Miss O 'Leary's Irish
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Fruitcake!
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