Chords for Schooner Fare - Quebecois.wmv

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[B] _ _ _ _ My [E] name [A] is Lévesque, [B] I'm a son [C#m] of Quebec, _ [A] I'm a farmer and [E] a Frenchman by [B] birth. _
_ [E] I am used to [A] hard work and [B] the sun on [C#m] my neck, [A] and I raised what I [E] could from [B] the earth.
_ _ [A] But now [E] I'm a weaver in [B] some rich [C#m] man's mill, [A] making blankets to [E] earn a [B] week's pay.
_ _ And it's six [A] days a week, dawn to [B] dark in [C#m] this hell, but [A] I'm going back [B] home come [E] some day.
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[E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] I'm Giselle _
[A] Corriveau, and [B] I'm joining [C#m] my beau [A] in the spring [C#m] when the log drive [B] is through. _
_ [E] He's a woodsman, [A] you know, and I [B] do love him [C#m] so, [A] and for him there's not [E]
much I won't [B] do.
_ [A] So I sweat all day [E] long in the [B] shoe factory, [A]
just to put a [E] few dollars _ [B] away,
_ _ [E] to save [A] toward a farm [B] in our own [C#m] country, [A] cause we're going [B] back home come [E] some day.
_ It [A] is work, [E] it is family, [B] it's church, it [C#m] is God, [A] it is why we [E] came here to [B] this _ land.
[A] To make a new [E] life and be what [A] we _ _ are, [E] the proud [B] and the strong [C#m] _ _ [A] Quebecois.
The [E] proud and [B] the strong [E] _ _ _ Quebecois.
I'm Gerard [A] Fournier, [B] and I cut wood [C#m] all day, [A] in the spring I [C#m] am taking [B] a wife.
_ [E] We'll go back [A] to the land, [B] it's our forefathers' [C#m] way, [A] to nurture [E] the earth is our [B] life.
_ _ [A] And on Saturday _ [E] nights, [B] we will dance [A] and we'll sing, raise a glass to [E] our family [B] and friends. _ _
[E] And it's Sunday [A] to church, [B] and the solace [C#m] it brings, and [A] on Monday [B] we'll start once [E] again.
_ It [A] is work, it [E] is family, [B] it's church, it [C#m] is God, [A] it is why [E] we came here [B] to this _ land.
_ [A] To make a new life and be what we are, _ [E] the proud [B] and the strong [C#m] _ _
[A] Quebecois.
_ [E] The proud [B] and the strong [E] _ Quebecois.
_ Oh, we [A] are the folk [B] who quietly [C#m] toil, [A] in this new land [C#m] of hope [B] we have found.
_ [E] In the woods, [A] on the sea, in [B] the hard [C#m] rocky soil, in the factories [E] that clutter the [B] _ towns.
And [A] we raised up [B] cathedrals to the glory [C#m] of [A] God.
And the pillars of [E] our blood [B] and our tears.
_ [E] And we made it [A] through hard times [E] and hunger and [C#m] flood, [A] and we'll be here for [B] thousands [E] of _ years.
It [A] is work, it [B] is family, it is church, it [C#m] is God, [A] it is why we [E] came here to [B] this _ land.
[A] To [E] make a new life and be [A] what we _ _ are, the [E]
proud [B] and the strong [C#m] _ _ [A] Quebecois. _
[E] The proud [B] and the strong _ [E]
Quebecois.
_ It is work, it is family, it [B] is church, it is [C#m] God, [A] it is why we [E] came here to this [B] _ _
land.
[A] To make a [E] new life and [C#m] be what [A] we _ _ are, [E] the proud and the [B] strong [C#m] _ _
[A] Quebecois.
_ [E] The proud [B] and the strong [C#m] _ Quebecois.
[A] _ [E] The proud [B] and the strong _ [C#m] Quebecois. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ The [E] proud and the [B] strong _ [E] _ _ Quebecois.
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