Dear Old Stan chords by The Dreadnoughts

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
D G Am Em C G  G D G

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

Chorus:
 D      G
Arise and be merry
   Am        Em
And sing out while you can
   C        G
The world will never see the likes
   G  D  G
Of dear old Stan

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

Chorus:
 D      G
Arise and be merry
   Am        Em
And sing out while you can
   C        G
The world will never see the likes
   G  D  G
Of dear old Stan

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

Chorus:
 D      G
Arise and be merry
   Am        Em
And sing out while you can
   C        G
The world will never see the likes
   G  D  G
Of dear old Stan

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

Chorus:
 D      G
Arise and be merry
   Am        Em
And sing out while you can
   C        G
The world will never see the likes
   G  D  G
Of dear old Stan

 D      G
Arise and be merry
   Am        Em
And sing out while you can
   C        G
The world will never see the likes
   G  D  G
Of dear old Stan