Here’s the latest video from Brian’s Youtube channel which offers free video tutorials on how to play famous Irish ballads. This song is one of Brian’s own compositions: the Irish Pub Song.

Click here for the chords and lyrics.

                                     WHISKEY IN THE JAR

As I was going over the Cork and Kerry mountains

I met captain Farrell and his money he was counting

I first produced my pistol, and then produced my rapier

Saying “stand and deliver for you are a bold reciever”

CHORUS:

With your ring dum a do dum a da

Whack fol de daddio

Whack fol de daddio

There’s whiskey in the jar

I took all of his money and it made a pretty penny

I put it in my pockets and I took it home to Jenny

She sighed and she swore that she never would decieve me

But the devil take the women for they never can be easy

CHORUS

I went into my chamber, all for to take a slumber

to dream of gold and jewels and for sure it was no wonder

But Jenny drew my charges and she filled them up with water

And sent for captain Farrell to be ready for the slaughter

CHORUS

T’was early in the morning as I roses up for travel

I found the guards around me and likewise Captain Farrell

I grabbed both of my pistols for she stole away my rapier

But I couldn’t shoot the water so a prisoner I was taken

CHORUS

If anyone can help me it’s my brother in the army

If I can find his station either cork or in Killarney

And if he comes and saves me we’ll go walking in Kilkenny

And I swear he’ll treat me better than my own decieving Jenny

CHORUS

There’s some take delight in the hurling and the bowling

And others take delight in the carriage wheels a rolling

But I take delight in the juice of the barley

And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early

CHOURS TWICE TO END