Chords for Alf Prøysen - Visa hennes Staslin

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_ _ There was a time in [Gbm] my [Bb] youth, _ _ when [Db] something [Gm] was rising and falling.
_ [Eb] _ There [Db] lived [C] a cow [F] called Staslin, [Fm] and [F] the one who [Bb] made [Cm] Staslin was a Jew.
_ So there was to be a fair and [Ab] noble [Bb] building, _ then the [Gm] Jew thought Staslin [Eb] would join.
_ But [G] the one who [C] understood was [Fm] Staslin, [F] and the one who [Bb] [Gm] thought everything [Cm] was [Eb] a Jew.
_ [Cm] When the day [Gm] came, we [Gbm] [Ab] followed the [Bb] road, [Fm] for [Db] [Gm] finally it would happen.
_ [Cm] But [Abm] the one who [D] sat behind [F] was Staslin, [A] [Fm] and [F] the one who [Bb] carried the [Ab] load [Eb] was a Jew.
_ So we came forward and got [Ab] a fair [Bb] place.
_ We stood in line for [Cm] a night.
_ But [G] the one who [C] was allowed to drink was [Ab] Staslin, [F] and the one who [D] had a heart [Cm] was [Eb] a Jew.
_ [Cm] And the villagers [Gm] and [Gbm] people in [Fm] white [Bb] suits, _ [Fm] they [Db] cut [Gm] here and there and up and down.
[Cm] _ And [Abm] the one who [C] got his beard [A] was Staslin, [Fm] and [F] the one who [Bb] had a [Fm] beard [Eb] was a Jew.
_ Then a [Ab] man with a [Bb] machine came forward.
_ He was employed in a [Gm] farmhouse [Eb] nearby.
_ _ But the [C] one who beat me in the ass was [Ab] Staslin, _ [F] and the one who stood [Bb] and [Cm] smiled was a [Eb] Jew.
_ [Cm] And the picture came [G] in the paper [Gbm] the [Fm]
next day.
[Bb] _ [Db] Then I got [Gm] a crown of thorns and it was crooked.
[Cm] _ [G] For the one who stood [E] in the blue was [F] _
Staslin, and the one they [Bb] had cut [Fm] off was [Eb] me. _ _ _ _ _ _
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