[INTRO:] G

[VERSE 1:]
                D/F#        G           F
Oh, Sullivan's John, to the road you've gone
     G             D/F#    G
Far away from your country home
                              F
You've gone with the tinker's daughter
     G                D/A
For along the road to roam
    G                   F
Oh, Sullivan's John you won't stick it long
          G                   D/F#
Till your belly will soon get slack
    G          D/F#          G     F
As along the road with a mighty load
      G         D/F#    G
And a toodlebox on your back


[VERSE 2:]
                 D/F#         G      F
And it's Katy Mulvay with her neat baby
  G           D/F#            G
Behind on her back, strapped on
                           F
She'd a long ( ? ) stick into her hand
       G                D/A
For to drive her donkey on
  G                F
Enquiring at every farmhouse
    G                       D/F#
As along the road she would pass
           G             D/F#       G      F
Oh, it's, "Where would I get an old pot to mend?"
          G             D/F#    G
Or it's, "Where would I buy an ass?"


[VERSE 3:]
                       D/F#        G      F
There's an ass selling fair in the County Clare
     G               D/F#    G
At a place they call Spancel Hill
                                F
Where my brother Bill 'ceived a rap on the head
         G                   D/A
And poor Paddy they tried to kill
     G                   F
They bundled him up in a donkey 'n cart
     G                D/F#
All along the road to sand
        G           D/F#        G          F
Oh, bad luck to the day from my home I did stray
       G           D/F#     G
For to join with a tinker's band


[VERSE 4:]
                     D/F#        G           F
And it's Sullivan's John, to the road you've gone
     G             D/F#    G
Far away from your country home
                              F
You've gone with the tinker's daughter
     G                D/A
For along the road to roam
      G                   F
Well, Sullivan's John you won't stick it long
          G                   D/F#
Till your belly will soon get slack
    G          D/F#          G     F
As along the road with a mighty load
      G         D/F#    G
And a toodlebox on your back