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Guitar: Nobody Loves Like An Irishman 2 (Including lyrics and chords)

427 views · Published 16 February 2013 · 2:58 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: threelegsoman · 2013 · Education

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I uploaded a version of this song some time ago, but as I had to record it for a friend the other day, I thought this version could be uploaded too as it is on my new guitar. The reason I have recorded it is that tomorrow night a group of friends are performing an hour of skiffle music and I am singing this one with my friend Beastie playing the clarinet and have given her a CD of the audio from this video so she can practise it in her own home.
As a youth, I loved skiffle and in particular Lonnie Donegan and sang this song so often that I must have committed it to memory as I found I could remember it all the way through without having to refer to the lyrics. It was written by Jim Currie and Lonnie Donegan.

Nobody Loves Like An Irishman 
Jim Currie and Lonnie Donegan

C                    G7                     C                             G7                     C
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum. Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

C                                            G7                                                                      C
Hey! A turbaned Turk who scorns the world may strut about with his whiskers curled
                                                   G7                                                             C
Keep a hundred wives under lock and key for nobody else but himself to see
Dm                                                                   G7                                     C
Long must he pray with his auld Koran before he can love like an Irishman
Dm                                                                   G7                                     C
Long must he pray with his auld Koran before he can love like an Irishman

C                   G7                      C  
Dum-dum-a-dimmy, dum-a-dum

The gay monsieur, a slave no more, the solemn Don and the soft Senor
The Dutch Mynheer, so full of pride, the Russian, Prussian, Swede beside
They all may do whatever they can but they never, never love like an Irishman
They all may do whatever they can but they never, never love like an Irishman

Now the London folks themselves beguile and think they please in a capital style
But let them ask as they cross the street of any young girl that they happen to meet
And I know she'll say from behind her fan nobody loves like an Irishman
I know what she'll say from behind her fan nobody loves like an Irishman

So I want you to know just how much I care and the rest of my life with you I'd share
I love your face, your hair, your smile it's just as sure as I come from the Emerald Isle
It must be clear to your lovely eye no boy will love you better than I
It must be clear to your lovely eye no boy will love you better than I

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