Stonecutter chords by James Keelaghan

James Keelaghan - Stonecutter







INTRO: C  Em  D-G  D  G  (3x) C  Em  D-G  D

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

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

INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  G



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

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


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D


BRIDGE:

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

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


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

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


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D


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

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


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D


BRIDGE:

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


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

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


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D


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

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