Dear Old Stan chords by The Dreadnoughts

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
D MajorD G+G A minorAm E minorEm C majorC G+G  G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:
      G+G       C majorC     G+G       D MajorD
From the streets of old Victoria to fair old Mabou town
    D MajorD     G+G       C majorC       G+G
From Portage to Spadina listen closely for the sound
  D MajorD         G+G         A minorAm       E minorEm
A augmentedA voice still echoes softly 'cross the rivers and the plains
  C majorC           G+G      G+G   D MajorD    G+G
So don't you dare stop listening and don't forget his name

Chorus:
 D MajorD      G+G
Arise and be merry
   A minorAm        E minorEm
And sing out while you can
   C majorC        G+G
The world will never see the likes
   G+G  D MajorD  G+G
Of dear old Stan

Verse:
   G+G        C majorC        G+G       D MajorD
The Yanks have Woodie Guthrie, The British Ralph McTell
   D MajorD         G+G         C majorC       G+G
The Celts have got the Corries, aye and Ronnie Drew as well
 D MajorD          G+G    A minorAm        E minorEm
Adge Cutler sings of cider out in the west country
  C majorC     G+G      G+G  D MajorD   G+G
But I am a Canadian, and so I say to thee

Chorus:
 D MajorD      G+G
Arise and be merry
   A minorAm        E minorEm
And sing out while you can
   C majorC        G+G
The world will never see the likes
   G+G  D MajorD  G+G
Of dear old Stan

Verse:
   G+G       C majorC       G+G       D MajorD
When I was just a nipper bouncing on my mummy's knee
    D MajorD        G+G         C majorC      G+G
'Twas Harris and the Mare me boys she sweetly sang to me
   D MajorD        G+G        A minorAm       E minorEm
And as I closed my eyes beneath the Northern moon so pale
  C majorC         G+G       G+G   D MajorD    G+G
I dreamed I was the Captain standing on the Nightingale

Chorus:
 D MajorD      G+G
Arise and be merry
   A minorAm        E minorEm
And sing out while you can
   C majorC        G+G
The world will never see the likes
   G+G  D MajorD  G+G
Of dear old Stan

Verse:
    G+G         C majorC      G+G       D MajorD
At the Wolf and Hound Vancouver, just for a pint or two
    D MajorD           G+G        C majorC        G+G
These blokes were singing Old Maui from the whales' point of view
  D MajorD        G+G       A minorAm          E minorEm
I thought of old Stan Rogers and walked straight out the bar
   C majorC        G+G       G+G     D MajorD   G+G
And started up the Dreadnoughts, and here we bloody are

Chorus:
 D MajorD      G+G
Arise and be merry
   A minorAm        E minorEm
And sing out while you can
   C majorC        G+G
The world will never see the likes
   G+G  D MajorD  G+G
Of dear old Stan

 D MajorD      G+G
Arise and be merry
   A minorAm        E minorEm
And sing out while you can
   C majorC        G+G
The world will never see the likes
   G+G  D MajorD  G+G
Of dear old Stan