The Rawdon Hills Chords by Stan Rogers

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[D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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[A] The worn [G] down shacks of labor passed on a hill of [D] broken stone
_ [G] _ _ _ Once [D] brought by men to the [Em] stampin' mills to crush away the gold
[A] _ _ _ But before it could [G] pass [D] to their sons the glory left [E] the hole
The [G]
rotten hills [D] once were touched by _ gold
The _ _ _ [A] _
_ grandsons [G] of the mining men scratched [D] the fields among [G] the trees
[D] When the gold played out [Em] they were all turned up with granite-dusted _ _ [A] _ knees
But at night around the [G] stove sometimes [D] the stories [E] still unfold
_ [G] The rotten hills _ [A] once were touched [D] by _ gold
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Em] Grandson of the mining men [D] you'll see it in your _ _ dreams
_ [F] _
_ Beneath your [Em] father's bones still [D] lies the undiscovered seam _ _ _ [G] _
of quartzite
In a serpentine vein [D] that marks the greatest yield
And _ along [G] the Midland Railway _ it's [A] still told
_ _ _ How [G] the rotten hills _ [A] once were touched [D] by _ gold _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [G] _
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Eighty years [G] has been and gone since there was color in [D] the [G] hole
_ And the [D] care-worn shades [E] of the hard rock men [G]
surround the old co [A]-plow
_ And through the tiny [G] _ hillside farms the [D] miners' [E] tales grow
_ [G] The rotten hills [A] once were touched [G] by gold _ _ _ _ _
[A] The rotten hills [G] once were touched by gold _ _ _ _ _ _
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