Stonecutter chords by James Keelaghan

Chords with lyrics

James Keelaghan - Stonecutter





INTRO: C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G (3x) C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD

     G+G
If you're down by Queen and Britain streets
    D MajorD         G+G
You'll find Stonecutter's Lane

The house that my Grandfather built
   D MajorD       G+G
Where I was born and raised
C majorC         G+G
My Granddad was a mason
    D MajorD       C majorC
And my father in his time
       D MajorD   G+G       C majorC
When my time came I signed as an apprentice lad

INTERLUDE: E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G


The early Nineteen Hundreds
    D MajorD       G+G
Were a rich, fat afternoon

We were cutting stone like demons
  D MajorD         G+G
No work was done too soon
    C majorC      G+G
We were hired out on seven jobs
  D MajorD       C majorC
And so to take the slack
      D MajorD  G+G        C majorC
We put out advertisements for apprentice lads


INTERLUDE: E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD


BRIDGE:

You'd never find a better crew
C majorC          G+G  D MajorD
They knew what work was

Cornices and lintels
     C majorC          G+G
They laid stone like they were gods
  D MajorD
To hear the hammers ring out
   A minorAm    ~   C majorC
You'd think it was a song

  G+G
In August, Nineteen Fourteen
    D MajorD       G+G
In the sultry summer heat

They took a vote in Ottawa
  D MajorD       G+G
The drums began to beat
C majorC       G+G
Honour, glory, us or them
  D MajorD       C majorC
The story doesn't change
       D MajorD   G+G      C majorC
To a man they all enlisted, my apprentice lads


INTERLUDE: E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD


 G+G
I didn't say that I agreed
    D MajorD        G+G
'Cause I knew what war was

It was worker killing worker
     D MajorD      G+G
For some politician's cause
  C majorC       G+G
And off to battle they all marched
   D MajorD         C majorC
They gassed them at Cambrai
      D MajorD    G+G       C majorC
The dogs of war had done for my apprentice lads


INTERLUDE: E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD


BRIDGE:

In Nineteen Sixteen fire broke out
C majorC       G+G
Parliament was razed
  D MajorD
The call went out for masons
   C majorC        G+G
To rebuild and to re-lay
      D MajorD
It was the contract of a lifetime
  A minorAm   ~    C majorC
The house upon the hill


    G+G
So they came out from Vancouver
     D MajorD        G+G
They came down from Montreal

Master masons everyone
     D MajorD        G+G
They were answering their call
     C majorC      G+G
There was no man under thirty
  D MajorD            C majorC
No man whose work I didn't know
       D MajorD     G+G        C majorC
The fields of France had swallowed the apprentice lads


INTERLUDE: E minorEm D-G D MajorD G+G C majorC E minorEm D-G D MajorD


   G+G
It's Nineteen Twenty-One now
  D MajorD        G+G
I'm standing at the peak

About to cap the Peace Tower off
    D MajorD        G+G
There's no one here can speak
  C majorC      G+G
The mortar for that stone we mixed
   D MajorD          C majorC
With clay from Flanders' Fields
    D MajorD    G+G         C majorC
Laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads
         D MajorD    G+G         C majorC
Yeah, we laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads