Chords with lyrics
The Rawdon Hills - Words & Music by Stan Rogers
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A augmentedA Gadd9Gadd9 D7/F#D7/F# Gadd9Gadd9
Worn down shacks of labour past, ...
D/F#D/F# E minorEm G+G A7A7
Once brought by men to the ...
A7/GA7/G Gadd9Gadd9 D/F#D/F# Ema9
But before it could pass to ...
G+G A7A7 G+G D/F#D/F#
The Rawdon Hills once were ...
The grandsons of the mining men scratch ....
Bridge:
Fma9 E minorEm D/F#D/F#
Grandsons of the mining men, ...
Fma9 E minorEm D MajorD D/C
Beneath your father's bones still ...
D MajorD
Of Quartzite, in a serpentine ...
G+G G+G
And along the Midland railway....
G+G A7A7 G+G D MajorD
How the Rawdon Hills once were ...
Eighty years has been and gone since .....
Notes:
Gadd9: 300203
D7/F#: 200212
D/F#: 200232
A7/G: 302020
Ema9: 024100
Fma9: 122010
D/C: x30232
(The Rawdon Hills are an area of Nova Scotia, kind of northwest of
Halifax. Rumour has it that a long time ago, the Nova Scotia
government circulated false reports that there was a big gold
discovery there, as a plan to get more people to settle in that
area.)
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