Cousin Jack Chords by Show Of Hands

_ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] _
[C] _ _ [Em] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [D] _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] This is Cousin Jack.
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] This land is barren and [C] broken,
_ [G] _ [D] Scarred like the face [G] of the moon.
[D] _ _ [Em] Our tongue no [Bm] longer spoken,
_ _ [C] The towns all around [D] face ruin.
_ _ [Em] Will there be work in [C] near Brunswick,
[D] Or will I find [G] gold in the Cape?
[D] [Em] If I travel way down [Bm] to Australia,
_ [Am] _ [C] How will I [D] ever escape?
_ [Em] [G] Where there's a mining [D] _
_ _ [Em] horse,
That's where I'm headed [C] for,
That's where I'm bound.
[D] Look for me under [G] the [D] loam,
For [C] inside the bay
_ _ [D] _
Oh, no!
For [G] where the copper and the clay,
Where [D] the arsenic and tin,
[Em] Run in your blood,
[C] We're here under your skin.
[D] I'm leaving the ground [G] here behind,
[D] And I'm not going [C] back.
_ [D] So follow [C] me down, [Em] Cousin Jack. _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ The soil was too poor to [C] make it,
_ _ [D] Granite and steel left [G] no choice,
[D] _ [Em] No visions of heaven [Bm]
sustained us.
_ [C] John [Am] Wesley [D] gave us a voice,
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] That Joseph once called to [C] St.
Michael's Mount.
[D] Two thousand years passed [G] in a [D] dream,
[Em] And you were kinned away [A] in the [Bm] darkness.
_ [C]
Deep in the heart [D] of sea.
Where there's a mine,
_ [G]
Where there's a mine,
[D] Or a hole in the ground,
[Em] That's where I'm headed for,
[C] That's where I'm bound. _
[D] Look for me under [G] the loam,
[D] For inside [C] the bay.
_ _ [D] _ _ For [G] where the copper and the clay,
Where [D] the arsenic and tin,
[Em] Run in your blood,
[C] We're here under your skin.
[D] I'm leaving the ground [G] here behind,
And [D] I'm not coming [C] back.
So [D] follow me [C] down, [Em] Cousin Jack. _ _ _ _
Follow me to _ _ [C] _
[Em] Canada,
_ America, South Africa, _ Australia.
_ _ _ _ _ Where [E] there's a mine,
_ _ Or a [Am] hole in the [C] ground,
_ _ _ _ [F#] [C] I'm leaving the county.
[D] _ _ _ _ Must I leave my [C] town?
_ Camber, Red [D] Roof, Austin,
[Em] [E] Wadebridge, _ _ Hudson, Port Island.
[C] _
_ Remember us, remember our [D] names,
Remember the White Cross,
[C] And the Black Flag.
And _ _ [D] _ [E] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ the waves [C] crash _ _ _ _ [D] to the _ shoreline.
_ _ _ I dream, [C] I _ _ _ dream, [D] I _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ dream.
I [Em] dream of a bridge across _ [C] the Tamar.
_ _ _ _ _ [D] It opens us up _ to [C] the _ East.
_ _ [E] In my dreams, [Em] _ I see the English
Living in our [C]
houses.
_ _ _ _ [D] I see the _ Spanish
Fishing in [E] our sails.
_ _ _ _ [G] Where there's a mine,
Or [D] a hole in the ground,
[Em]
That's where I'm headed [C] for,
That's where I'm bound.
[D]
Look for me under [G] the load,
[D] Or [C] inside the _ [G] grave.
[D] _ _ _ [G] Where the copper and the clay,
[D] Where the arsenic and tin,
[Em] Run in your blood,
[C] They get under your skin.
[D]
I'm leaving the [G] county behind,
[D] And I'm not [C] coming back.
_ [D] So follow [C] me down, [Em] Cousin Jack.
[C] _ [D] Come on, follow me [C] down, [Em] Cousin Jack.
[C] [G] Yeah, follow [C] me down.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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