Chords for The Land God Gave To Cain (Labrador Black Spruce)

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For years the men of _ _ _ Newfoundland, [Eb] those _ [Bb] fishermen _ [F] so _ _ poor,
They came each year in the _ springtime for [Bb] to fish [Eb] on the _ [C] Labrador. _ _ _ _
[F] But soon the fish, they were all _ [Bb] gone and the fur [Eb] it was [C] the _ same,
And [F] the natives _ suffered _ _ _ silently [Eb] in the land [Bb] God gave [F] to _ Cain. _ _
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Well the years went by and as time passed [Eb] the _ [Bb] companies _ [F] moved in, _ _ _ _
_ Ore and wood and hydro _ power [Bb] _ extraction [Eb] did _
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_ _ And [F] the jet planes soared, they dive and roar,
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[C] _ _ _ And [F] the _ _ caribou no longer passed [Eb] for fear of [Bb] that deadly [F] sound. _ _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ Way out in _ western _ _ _ Labrador, the [Eb] jobs are [Bb] _ growing [F] thin,
_ _ For _ thirty years the oars come out [Bb] and _ [Eb] nothing's gone [C] back in.
_ _ Well [F] we go the way of _ Sheffield where [Bb] the white [Eb] man left [C] his bay, _ _
[F] They gave it back to the native _ sons [Eb] in the land [Bb] God gave [F] to _ _ Cain. _
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Oh _ _ Labrador, oh _ _ Labrador, [Eb] what does your _ [F] future _ _ hold?
Cause we never will _ return _ again [Bb] to those wilderness [Eb] _ _
[C] days of _ old.
[F] To trap and hunt on the height of [Bb] land where _ _ [Cm] those [C] caribou stayed. _ _
We [F] drove them north never to return to [Eb] the land [Bb] God [F] gave to Cain. _ _ _
We drove them north never to return to the [Eb] land God [Dm] gave to Cain.
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