Oh me [G] name is Dick [D] Darby I'm a [G] cobbler
I [G] served me time at the old [F] camp
some [G] call me an [C] old agi- [G]tator
but [G] now I'm re- [D]solved to re- [G]pent

(Chorus:
I've an inkling of an inkling of an idea
I've an inkling of an inkling of an ide-ea-a
with me roo-boo boo-roo boo-boo randy
and me lab stone keeps beating away)

Now me father was hung for sheep stealing
me mother ws burned for a witch
my sisters a dandy housekeeper
and I'm a mechanical switch

(Chorus)

Ah its forty long years I have traveled
all by the contents of me pack
me hammers, me awls and me pinches
I carry them all on my back

(Chorus)

Oh my wife she is humpy, she's lumpy
my wife she's the devil she's black
and no matter what I may do with her
her tongue it goes clickety clack

(Chorus)

It was early one fine summer's mornin
a little before it was day
I dipped her three times in the river
and carelessly bade her "good day!"

(Chorus)

*** Tommy Makem does a neat version of this one. I saw it on
PBS once and he was actually beating on a lab stone and
pretending to make shoes and stuff! ***

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