Maid In The Calico Dress Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

E A C♯m A E A

  EIn flowery AJuly, neath C♯mComrose proud Aheights

  As the Eplovers come Adown from moor Eend

 And southward the Acuckoo is C♯mtaking his Aflight

 And the Ecorncrakes are Adeep in the Egrass

 The Aswallow and C♯mswift were Aaloft in the C♯mair

 And the Astarling was feeding her A♭myoung

 The Amilkmaid was C♯mtending her Acattle with A♭mcare

 And the Ahaymakers che-A♭meri-Aly Esung

Chorus

 Oh Aladies of C♯mDublin in Asatin or Esilk

 Are Apretty I C♯mclearly A♭mconfess

  Oh but Egive me the Amaid

 Who is C♯mneatly ar-Arayed

  In A Ebeautiful Acalico Edress

You may talk of the Italia ladies in vain

Or the maidens of France or Peru

You may worship the languishing beauties of spain

Or the blushing Carpathians too

But the one that I love, has the eyes like the sloe

And her cheeks are like roses in June

How graceful she slips, as she trips like the doe

And her ruby red lips are in tune

Chorus

If fortune or friendship compels me to roam

Or a thirst for some changes constrain

I’d still call the banks of old Muenster me home

And I’d sing of it’s praises again

Sweet gardens of roses or our cultured bowers

Would delight a poor soul to possess

But give me old Comrose, bedecked with wild flowers

And the maid in the calico dress

"The Maid In The Calico Dress

This delightful song has evolved through a circuitous route that spans many years. It

a poem first, written by Henry Nutter, who came from Lancashire, in the nineteenth

It endured the years and cultural changes, until it was recently set to music by Gerry

from Oldham, Lanes, from whose singing I learned it. It's a lovely landscape of the

between a man and his woman, which I have set on the graceful slopes of the Comeragh

in the County Waterford." - Danny Doyle