Chords for The McCalmans -The Broom O The Cowdenknowes

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
_ _ This song is about _ a love affair that [F#m] was [B] bound for [A] disaster [B] and a man [C#] sent away to
Australia _ on a [Bm] trumped up charge.
[E] Yes, it happens all the time.
This guy, he falls in love with a rich man's daughter [C#] and the rich man does not want a
poor folk singer [G#] for a son-in-law so he trumps up [F#] the charge and [E] the guy is charged with
stealing a loaf of sheep [G#] and they get _ [Gm]
sent away to [G#] Australia.
And being [C#m] a Scots person, he writes a homesickness song.
[E] We actually export more homesickness [B] songs.
_ [C#] _ [C] Many people write them before they leave, just [C#] in case.
_ _ It's a cracker.
Oh the broom, the bonnie broom, the brook with the cow denares.
Faint would I [F#] be in my own country, herding my feathers.
[C#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] How blithe [Fm] was I, [F#] one born [C#] to see, my love come on [F#] the hill.
_ _ [C#] [Fm] She loved the burn [A#m] and she ran [C#] to me, [F#] I met her [G#] with goodwill.
_ _ [C#] Oh [Fm] the broom, [F#] the bonnie, [C#] bonnie broom, the broom with the cow [F#] denares.
_ [C#] _ [Fm] Faint would I be in [A#m] my own [C#] country, _ [F#] herding my [G#] feathers.
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_ [F#] _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ [D#m] _
[G#] _ [F#] _ [G#] _ _ _ [C#] Our fate [Fm] that I [F#] should [C#] punish me, can never be [F#] undone.
_ _ [C#]
[Fm] Because I [A#m] looked up [C#] at her [F#] face, the shabby [G#] age was gone.
_ [C#] Oh [Fm] the broom, [F#] the bonnie, bonnie [C#] broom, the broom with the cow [F#] denares.
_ [C#m] _
Faint would [Fm] I be in [A#m] my own [C#] country, [F#] _
herding my [G#] feathers.
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_ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] _
_ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _
[C#] A Jew, [Fm] he [F#] cow denares, [C#] a Jew.
_ Very low [F#] pleasure there. _
_ [C#] The [Fm] wonder by [A#m] her side [C#]
again, [F#] is all I crave [G#] or care.
[C#] Oh [Fm] the broom, [F#] the bonnie, [C#m] bonnie broom, the broom with the cow _ [F#] denares.
_ [C#m] _ [Fm] Faint would I be [A#m] in my own [C#] country, [F#] herding my [G#] feathers. _
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[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [C#] Faint would [Fm] I be in [A#m] my own [C#] country, _ [F#] herding my [G#] feathers.
Faint _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ [F#] _ _
_ [G#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m] _ [F#] _ _
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would I be in my own country, herding my feathers.
[E] I've been saying a couple of [Bm] things that I don't normally [G] say in concerts because [B] it's the last few [G#m] gigs.
And, eh, _ _ £4000, _ _ that's what [B] it cost me in Ireland to go to Australia [Em] to see [B] my son.
_ _ £4000 and then we had to pay for accommodation.
_ [E] _ _ _
[C#m] The guy in this song, the broom, eh, he [B] stole a loaf [E] of bread or something.
He got there free. _ _ _
[C#m] _ He got there, wonderful, [E] he arrived there, what a great climate.
[A#] And he had accommodation for a long [G#m] time, totally free.
And [F#] still he's bloody moaning.
_ _ _ _ [G] I just want [G#] to get these things off my chest.
_ _ [C#m] _
_ _ [G#m] _ Aye, [C#m] this is how I was treating.
_ [E] You're only there for [G#] a few days, weren't you? _
_ [B] It's _ possible. _ _
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