Donald Where's Your Troosers Chords

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Donald Where's Your Troosers by Andy Stewart is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, D, Am and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Em 
I just down from the Isle of Skye 
    D  
I'm no very big but I'm awful shy  
      Em 
All the lassies shout as I go by,  
    D                                       Em 
"Donald, Where's Your Troosers?"  
Chorus 
Em 
Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low  
D 
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go  
  Em 
All the lassies say, "Hello!  
    D                                       Em 
Donald, where's your troosers?"  
Em 
A Lady took me to a ball  
D  
And it was slippery in the hall  
Em 
I was afeared that I wid fall  
D                                           Em 
'Cause I had nay on ma troosers  
 
Chorus 
Em 
Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low  
D 
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go  
     Em 
All the lassies say, "Hello!  
    D                                      Em 
Donald, where's your troosers?" 
Em 
I went down to London town  
D 
To have a little fun in the underground  
  
Em 
All the Ladies turned their heads around, saying,  
D                                          Em 
"Donald, where's your troosers?"  
 
Chorus 
Em 
Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low  
D 
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go  
     Em 
All the lassies say, "Hello!  
    D                                     Em 
Donald, where's your troosers?" 
 
Em 
To wear the kilt is my delight, 
  D  
It is not wrong, I know it's right.  
    Em 
The highlanders would get afright  
     D                                    Em 
If they saw me in my troosers.  
 
Chorus 
Em 
Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low  
D 
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go  
     Em 
All the lassies say, "Hello!  
    D                                     Em 
Donald, where's your troosers?" 
 
Em 
The lassies love me every one  
D 
Just let them catch me if they can  
Em 
You canna put the breeks on a highland man, saying, 
'Cause he does nae wear his troosers?" 
 
Chorus 
Em 
Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low  
D 
Through the streets in my kilt I'll go  
     Em 
All the lassies say, "Hello!  
    D                                     Em 
Donald, where's your troosers?" 
 
 
Alternate Chords  verse/Chorus: 
Am  
G  
Am  
G 
Am-G-Am-G-Am-Am  
 

    	

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