Good Ship Kangaroo - Planxty [Intro] [D] [D] [Am] [Am] [G] [C-G] [D] [G] x2 [Verse] D Am C D G Once I was a waitin' man that lived at home at ease G C G D G Now I am a mariner that ploughs the angry seas D Am C D G I always loved seafarin' life, I bid my love adieu G C G D G I shipped as steward and cook, me boys, on board the Kangaroo [Chorus] D Am C D G Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue G C G D G G As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo [Verse] G C C D G "Think of me, oh think of me," she mournfully did say G C G D G "When you are in a foreign land and I am far away D Am C D G Take this lucky thruppenny bit, it'll make you bear in mind G C G D G That lovin' trustin' faithful heart you left in tears behind." D Am C D G "Cheer Up, cheer up, my own true love. Don't weep so bitterly," G C G D G She sobbed, she sighed, she choked, she cried and could not say goodbye D Am C D G "I won't be gone for very long, 'tis but a month or two G C G D G When I will return again of course I´ll visit you." [Chorus] D Am C D G Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue G C G D G G As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo [Verse] G C C D G Our ship it was homeward bound from many's the foreign shore G C G D G And many´s the foreign present unto me love I bore D Am C D G I brought tortoises from Tenerife and toys from Timbuktu G C G D G A china rat, a Bengal cat and a Bombay cockatoo D Am C D G Paid off I sought her dwellin' on a street above the town G C G D G Where an ancient dame upon the line was hangin' out her gown D Am C D G "Where is me love? " "She´s vanished, sir, about six months ago G C G D G With a smart young man that drives the van for Chaplin, Son and Co. [Chorus] D Am C D G Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue G C G D G As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo [G] [C] [C-D] [G] [G] [C-G] [D] [G] [D] [Am] [C-D] [G] [G] [C-G] [D] [G] [Verse] G C C D G Here's a health to dreams of married life, to soap suds and blue G C G D G Heart's true love and patent starch and washin' soda too D Am C D G I'll go unto some foreign shore, no longer can I stay G C G D G And with some China hottentot I'll throw me life away D Am C D G Me love she is no foolish girl, her age it is two score G C G D G Me love she is no spinster, she's been married twice before D Am C D G I cannot say it was her wealth that stole me heart away; G C G D G She's a washer in a laundry for one and nine a day [Chorus] D Am C D G Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue G C G D G As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo [G] [C] [C-D] [G] [G] [C-G] [D] [G] [D] [Am] [C-D] [G] [G] [C-G] [D] [G single Strum]