Dear Old Stan Chords by The Dreadnoughts, Nicholas Smyth, Nicholas Smyth

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From the streets of old [Em]
Victoria [G] to fair old [D] Mabu Town
From Portage to [G]
Spadina listen [Em] closely for [G] the sound
[D] A voice still [G] echoes softly [Am] across the rivers [Em] and the plains
[C] So don't you dare [G] stop listening and don't [D] forget [G] his name
[D] _ Arise and [G] be merry [Am] and sing out [Em] while you can
[C] The world will never [G]
see the likes of [D] dear [G] old Stan
The Yanks have Woody [C]
Guthrie, [G] the British Ralph [D]
McTel
The Celts have got [G] the Corrie's I [C] and Ronnie Drew [G] as well
[D] Ad Cutler sings [G] a cider [Am] out in the West [Em]
Country
[C] But I am a [G]
Canadian and so I [D] say to thee
_ Arise and [G] be merry [Am] and sing out [Em] while you can
[C] The world will never [G]
see the likes of [D] dear [G] old Stan
When I was just [C] a nipper bouncing [G] on my [D] mummy's knee
Twas Harris and [G] the Mermy boys [C] she sweetly sang [G] to me
[D] And as I closed my eyes beneath [Gm] [Am] the Northern moon [Em] so pale
[C] I dreamed I was [G] the captain standing [D] on the _ [G]
Nightingale
_ [D] _ Arise and [G] be merry [Am] and sing out while [Em] you can
The [C] world will never [G] see the likes of [D] dear [G] old Stan
At the Wolfenhound [C] Vancouver _ [G] just for a pint or [D]
two
These blokes were singing [G] old Maui from [C] the Wales point [G] of view
[D] I thought of old [G] Stan Rogers [C] and walked straight out [Em] the bar
[C] And started up [G] the dreadnoughts and [D] here we bloody [G]
are
_ [D] _ Arise and [G] be merry [A] and sing out while [Em] you can
[C] The world will never [G] see the likes of [D] dear [G] old Stan
_ [D] _ Arise and [G] be merry [Am] and sing out while [Em] you can
[C] The world will never [G] see the likes of [D] dear old [G] Stan _ _ _ _ _
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