Chords for TEX MORTON - the country touch(1967)

Cosmo and here we go
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [N] Remember the Dubliners the Irish group who turned New Zealand sometime ago
I was particularly taken with John Sheehan
John Sheehan the fiddler
darn good fiddler too and he apparently got together with our Colleen the girl with a wink and the smile of the Hamilton County bluegrass band
And they exchanged notes and he taught her a fine old Irish novelty number now people often ask me if Colleen plays any Irish jigs
And reels so she's going one better and she's going to play for us this wonderful novelty number the four post a bit
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_ _ _ [C] _ Hey, that was great, thank you Colleen.
Well, [Gm] here's a number I
Wrote some time ago for no particular reason
I I think it was sparked off by some casual remark, you know in a bar of some kind maybe a milk bar
but I apologize
Not at all for the philosophy in this song because then well, I mean every [Eb] word of it
It's a novelty [Gm] number and I hope you like it, _ _ _ _ oh, I'm so sorry for you as [F] you rough it in here
[Bb] cash in your pocket
Sipping your beer.
[Eb] Oh, you don't understand.
It's [F] tough now.
He says
[Bb] Not like it was in your good old days
[Eb] _ They stand and they moan with the beer in their hand.
[Bb] They say the pressure
[Eb] All over the land but carry a swag
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_ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] I _ _ _ _ _ worked hard at school [Fm] and I earned a big straw
[Bb] But I couldn't even get [Eb] work on the dough so I sang an old song [F] and I passed
They [Bb] put me in jail [Eb] just _ _ around all the missions
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[Eb] Your _ _ _ _ father and I
[F] Trampled over this land
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Sleeping out
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if we had [Eb] to do it again
Good old [F] days
Wonderful [Bb] day
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_ _ Well, if things do get tough [Fm] and there's always the chance [Bb] you'll have to get up
[Eb] _ _ hungry _
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_ _ _ Sure, there's some out of work, [Fm] but there's lots earning pay
[Bb] They keep all the blood
[Eb] Like it that way this town's full of hippies
[F] Play about crumbs
[Bb] But please don't [Eb] insult us by calling them bum.
_ Oh, yeah
_ So if things do get bad
[F] before
Off comes your hair [Eb] boy.
You're ready for war
three meals a day
Your [F] bed everything [Bb] and if you get back [Eb] remember to sing
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Don't talk to me of [Eb] those _ _ _ _
[Cm] Those [Bb] not so good
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