Show of Hands - Country life
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Downtuned 2 semitones from standard(DGCFAD)
Wooooah x 2
AmWorking in the rain, Ccutting up wood, Git didn’t do my little brother much good
AmLost two fingers in a Cchainsaw bite, Gall he does now is drink and fight
FSells a bit of grass, Ghots up AmcarsDsus2, talks of travel, neveFr gets far
FLoved his kids, Gleft his Amwife, an eDsus2veryday story of cFountry life
AmAnd the red brick cottage, where CI was born, is the eGmpty shell of a holiday home
AmMost of the year, there’Cs no one there, theG village is dead and they don’t care
FNow we live on theG edge of Amtown, Dsus2haven’t been back since thFe pub closed down
FOne man’s familGy pays thAme priceDsus2, for another man’s visionF of country life
Wooooah x 2
(Chords as above)
And my old man is eighty four, his generation won the war
He left the farm, forever when they only kept on one in ten
Land and gentry, county snobs, where were you when they lost their jobs
Noone marched or subsidised to save a country way of life
I'm singing wooooah x 2
(Break.)
AmSilent fields Empty lanes
GDrifting smoke Distant flames
AmPicture postcard Fields on fire
GCattle burning in funeral pyres
FOut to graze, they lGook so sAmweet, Dsus2we ate the blood we wore tFhe meat
FBuy me a beer i’lGl take myAm knife anDsus2d cut you slice of couFntry life
I’m singing Wooooah x 4
(back to verse chord structure)
If you want cheap food, well here’s the deal, family farms are brought to heel
By the hammer blows , scythes and scale, foot and mouth; the final nail
A coffin of our English dream, lies out on the village green
Where I grew balance, cap in hand, strip this green and pleasant land
Of meadow, woodland, hedgerow, park
What remains gets built upon
No trains, no jobs, no shops, no pubs, no where to run
Country life country life country life
(pause)
It’s a little bit of country -Am life