Chords for The Last Bristolian Pirate, from Cures What Ails Ya by The Longest Johns (Cover of Arrogant Worms)

Oh, I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
I had a little stretch of land along the Western line
But times were hard and though I tried the money wasn't there and bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair
I look for every kind of job the answer always no
Hi, and how they'd always laugh.
We just let 20 go
The government they promised me a measly little sum, but I've got too much pride to end [Bb] up just
[Ebm] And [Bb] _ [N] _ I said who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone [Gbm] I'm going to be a [Bb] pirate on the _
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River
And it's a
Coming down the plains stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains and it's a
_ [Eb] Farmer's by your doors when you see the Charlie [Bb] Roger on the [Cm] sevens mighty shores
You think the other farmers would know that I'm a large but just the other day.
I saw an [N] unsuspecting barge
It's not got right behind them and they were none the wiser
I ran their bone and sank it and I saw the fertilizer the bridge aside a red wick spans a mighty river
Farmers crosses [Gm] so much fear the stomachs are a quiver cuz they know the tractor Jack is hiding in the [Bbm] bay
I'll jump the bridge and knock him cold and [Ebm] sail off with
[Bb] And [N] it's a
Coming [Eb] down the plains stealing wheat and [Bb] barley and all the other grains and it's a
[Ab] Hey
Farmers by your doors when you see [N] the Charlie Roger on the sevens mighty shores.
Well officer Robbie chased me
He was always at my throat
But he followed on the shoreline cuz he didn't own a boat
But cutbacks were coming and the copper lost his job and now he sails with us and we call him salty Rob
Swing his sword of skull and bones a pleasant company.
I never pay my income taxes crew the VAT
Sailing out bustle bury the terror of the seas if you want to get to Tesco [Bb] boys, you gotta [Fm] get by me
And it's a
Coming down the plains stealing wheat and barley and [Gm] all the other grains and it's [F] a
[Eb] Farmers by your doors when you see the Charlie Roger on the sevens mighty shores
Well [N] pirate life's appealing, but you don't just find it here.
I hear that up in Yorkshire.
There's a band of buccaneers
They roam around the Yorkshire Dales and Smith to Beverly and you're bound to lose your flack up if you have to pass their way
Winter is a coming on a chill is in the breeze.
My pirate days are over if the river starts to freeze
Well, I'll be back in [Gm] springtime, but now I've got a full eye.
I hear there's lots of plundering [Bb] down in the
[Db] _ And [N] it's a
Coming down the plains [Eb] stealing wheat and [Bb] barley and all the other grains and [N] it's a
[Ab] [Ebm] Farmers [Ab] by your doors when you see the Charlie Roger on the sevens mighty shores
_ [Gm] Coming down the plains [Ab] stealing [Eb] wheat and barley [Bb] and all the other grains and it's a
Farmers [Eb] by your doors [Ab] when you see the [Eb] Charlie Roger [Bb] on the sevens [Eb] mighty shores when [Fm] you see the Charlie [Eb] Roger _ _
[N] I'm the sevens mighty shores.
Hey _ _ _
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