James Keelaghan - Boom gone bust
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Capo: 2
Tuning: G C E A
So I haven't been able to find any chords for this song I thought i'd submit something
for the people looking for it. Unfortunately he plays the song with a capo on the 2nd
fret which i currently don't have. This is how to play it without a capo though (at
least as close as I can hear)
Intro
A B C# D E
AMy Dad started east some time in the thirties
With the BOn-To-C#Ottawa Dmen E
AHe'd enough of the camps and the dole and the handouts
He Bwanted to C#work and to Dtie the loose Eends
Asus2He drifted from factory to foundry to flop-house
The Bwar sorted C#out what mere Dmen could Enot
AIn Sudbury's forges he worked like a mad-man
Those Byears lost to C#hunger, Dad Dnever foErgot
AI headed west when I had turned twenty
When the Bfactories and C#foundries had Dclosed E
AAnd in my minds eye I thought I might settle
Out Bhere where my C#father was Draised and was Eborn
Asus2I worked as a jug-hound a rough-neck a bouncer
I Bworked where I C#wanted and I Ddrew damn good Epay
ASaw no end to our luck and so we just pushed it
But BO.P.E.C. and C#mortgages Date it Eaway
DNow the boom's gone to Ebust
AAnd we're down on the Ddole boys
No Btreasure laid C#up, for Dfamily and Efriends
DIt's pull up stakes Enow or Apull up stakes Elater
For Blabouring C#men the Droad never Eends
Now it seems to me somehow this nation of migrants
From father to daughter, from mother to son
Must constantly shift from the east of the west
'Til we run out of work or of places to run
Gone now the days when you lived where your parents
And your parents before them were bred and were born
We must go where the work is to live any life boys
Bend like the willow to weather the storm
Now the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
No treasure laid up, for family and friends
It's pull up stakes now or pull up stakes later
For labouring men the road never ends
Yes the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
For labouring men the road never ends