The Auld Triangle chords by Alan Burke

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

VERSE 1:
 G G/C G      C    G
A hungry feeling Came o'er me stealing
    C        G            D D7
And the mice, they were squealing in my prison cell
    G   G/C G    C   G
And the Auld Triangle went jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G  G/C
All along the banks of the Royal Canal


VERSE 2:
  G   G/C G     C     G
To begin the morning the screw was bawling
   C        G        D     D7
"Get up, get up, get bowzy! And clean out your cell!"
    G   G/C G    C   G
And the Auld Triangle went jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G  G/C
All along the banks of the Royal Canal

VERSE 3:
     G  G/C G        C     G
Well, the boys are sleeping - Humpy Gussy he's creeping
   C      G       D    D7
While I lay there weeping - for my girl Sal
    G   G/C G    C   G
And the Auld Triangle went jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G  G/C
All along the banks of the Royal Canal


VERSE 4:
  G   G/C  G     C     G
My mother hates me, Oh my father he baits me
  C     G        D     D7
Oft times he berates me for my chosen life
    G   G/C G    C   G
And the Auld Triangle went jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G  G/C
All along the banks of the Royal Canal


VERSE 5:
     G G/C G        C      G
Up in the female prison There are seventy-five women
     C       G        D       D7
And it's there amongst them all, that I wish I could dwell
    G   G/C G    C   G
Then the Auld Triangle could go jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G  G/C
All along the banks of the Royal Canal

OUTRO:
     G  G/C G      C   G
Then the Auld Triangle could go jingle-jangle
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G
All along the banks of the Royal Canal
  C     G      D   G  G/C  G
All along the banks of the Royal Canal