I've Got Rings On My Fingers 1909

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 05 Sep 2005

Jim O'Shea was cast away
upon an Indian isle,
the natives there they liked his hair.
They liked his Irish smile,
so made him chief Panjandrum,
the nabob of them all.
They called him Jijiboo Jhai,
and rigged him out so gay,
so he wrote to Dublin Bay
to his sweetheart just to say:

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea.

O'er the sea went Rose McGee
to see her nabob grand,
he sat within his palanquin,
and when she kissed his hand,
he led her to his harem,
where he had wives galore,
she started shedding a tear;
said he: "Now have no fear!
I'm keeping these wives here
just for ornament, my dear:"

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea.

Em'rald green he robed his queen,
to share with him his throne,
'mid eastern charms and waving palms,
they'd shamrocks, Irish grown,
sent all the way from Dublin,
to Nabob Ji O'Shea,
but in his palace so fine,
should Rose for Ireland pine,
with smiles her face will shine,
when he murmurs: "Sweetheart mine:"

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea

Sure I've got rings on my fingers,
bells on my toes,
elephants to ride upon
my little Irish Rose.
So come to your nabob
and next Patrick's Day,
be Mistress Mumbo Jumbo
Jijiboo J. O'Shea.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I've Got Rings On My Fingers 1909
Music by Maurice Scott
Lyrics by Weston and Barnes
© MCMIX by Francis, Day & Hunter
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 05 September 2005 at 22.37
in association with Doug Grierson
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