Sid Goldsmith & Jimmy Aldridge - The Cottagers Reply Chords

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_ _ _ _ £500,000 English [Cm] pounds, _ _ _ this old [Eb] house and piece of ground _
You and your wife, you've _
[Cm] always planned _ To settle _ down [Eb] in Cotswold Land _
_ Well you'd best come in, you'd [Cm] best sit down [Eb] _ It's such a long drive from London town
_ You'd like some tea now while [Cm] I tell _ The _ reasons why [Eb] you will not sell
Well you'd best come in, you'd [Ab] best sit [Eb] down _ It's such a long drive from London town
_ You'd best come in, you'd best [Ab] sit down [Eb] _ It's such a long drive from London town
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stone-built house that [Ab] you call [Cm] nice _ _ Was built at far too [Eb] high a price _
For me to gaily sign _ away [Cm] _ _ _ Others toiled [Eb] for night and _ day _
Well they [Ab] hammered blue [Eb] stone by the yard _ And found the rent when times were hard
_ _ They lived and died beneath [Cm] the sun _ And tended the [Eb] fields you gazed _ upon
_ You'd best come in, you'd best [Ab] sit down [Eb] _
[Bb] It's such a long [Eb] drive from London town
_ You'd best come in, you'd best [Ab] sit down [Eb] It's such a long drive from London town _ _
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_ _ There are a gun that [Cm] asks for me _ A wire that tears [Eb] the roses _ free _
A dusk about you [Cm] travels still _ I've sassed through [Eb] highways on the hill _ _
I'm as Cotswold red as [Cm] all these _ And I still need [Gm] these fields [Eb] and trees
I _ _ need the soil that bore [Cm] my _ race And _ holds the bones beneath [Eb] this place
You'd best come in, you'd best [Ab] sit down [Eb] _
It's such a long drive from London town
_ You'd best come in, you'd best [Abm] sit down [Bb] It's such a long [Eb] drive from London town _ _ _
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_ _ _ Enough for me is cotter [Cm] stone I _ _ might have [Eb] planned to call my own
A _ friend to drink with, wife to [Cm] smile _ In _ [Eb] Cotswold country by the mile _
To take a cup and drain [Cm] it down _ [Gm] _ Would be peasant [Eb] from the town
_ The one year journey let me by _ _ Content in my own _ countryside _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Thank _ [N] _ _ you very much.
_ Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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_ It was a good [Fm] evening.
I was a rowdy holler _ _ Where [Ab] the dust [Eb] carts roll and they rumble past [Fm] my door _ _ _ _
I'll be standing [Eb] a rusty [Fm] row of all _ _ empties [Db] And the island men [Eb] don't stop there [Fm] anymore _ _ _
No, [Db] the island men [Ab] don't stop there [Fm] anymore _ No, _ _ [Db]
the island [Ab] men don't stop there [Fm] anymore _
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