G C G Margaret Thatcher talkin on TV,D G looks so sincere as she says to me,G C G There'd be no unemployment if,D G you all used a bit of initiativeEm C I was on the dole I was broke and boredG C G Says I'll take her at her wordEm C Got a loan from the credit union man,G D G And bought meself a transit van. [Verse 2]G C G My next step up the ladder now,D G I bought meself an auld fat sow,G C G Cross the border quite legally?,D G Collected a common market subsidy,Em C Signed all the forms, handed back the pen.G C G Smuggled the sow back home again,Em C Ten times a day I worked this plan,G D G Meself, and the sow, and the transit van [Verse 3]G C G Travel sickness the sow picked up,D G Says I, it's time to diversify,G C G Took all me money from the biscuit tin,D G Filled the van to the roof with whiskey and gin,Em C Around the South me wares I'd sell,Continues after the adG C G In public houses and hotels,Em C There was never a guard nor a customs man,G D G Put his nose inside the transit van, [Verse 4]G C G At festivals and fleadhs and fairs,D G If the craic was good you'd find me there,G C G At all big matches in Croke Park,D G And I danced with Springstein in the dark,Em C I fought with the tinkers in Ballinasloe,G C G I danced on streets around Listowell,Em C Mothers had their daughters warned,G D G Stay well away from the transit van, [Verse 5]G C G It being Lent and the drink trade slowD G I took to carrying videoG C G While on the road to BallybayD G Found a customs roadblock in me wayEm C To face the border I got her turned,G C G The engine roared and the tires burned,Em C Five patrol cars fully-manned,G D G Were in hot pursuit of the transit van [Verse 6]G C G Through Clontbrit I did go,D G I was heading for the county Mayo,G C G Round the corner I hit a dog,D G Went over the ditch landed in the bog,Em C I sat on a bank watched all I owned,G C G Sinkin in a bog hole like a stone,Em C She was lying on the roof with the wheels still turning,G D G And the stereo playing Daniel O'Donnell. [Verse 7]G C G Now I'm back where I first began,D G No job, no money, but I've a plan,G C G There's a girl down in Mullingar,D G She can hold me future in her hand,Em C She doesn't look like a film starG C D but she's been telling me about her da.Em C He has no property or landG C G but he has two sows and a transit van. [Verse 8]G C G The Queen of England drives a RollsRoyce car,D G her son Charly has a Ja-gu-ar.G C G But when the Pope came to I-re-landEm like meselfG C G he drove around in a transit van!
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