Macdonnell On The Heights chords by Stan Rogers

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Key: C

Verse 1:
    C
Too thin the line that charged the Heights
    F
And scrambled in the clay
    C
Too thin the Eastern Township Scot
    G
Who showed them all the way
    Em
And perhaps had you not fallen
          F       C     Dm
You might be what Brock became
        C          G                   C
But not one in ten thousand knows your name

Verse 1:
    C
To say the name, MacDonnell
    F
It would bring no bugle call
    C
But the Redcoats stayed beside you
    G
When they saw the General fall
    Em
Twas MacDonnell raised the banner then
    F       C       Dm
And set the Heights aflame
        C          G                   C
But not one in ten thousand knows your name

Chorus:
    G
You brought the field all standing
          F                C
With your courage and your luck
    Em
But unknown to most, you’re lying there
Dm                 G
Beside old General Brock
            C
So you know what it is to scale the Heights
F             C        Dm
And fall just short of fame
             C          G                  C
And have not one in ten thousand know your name

Verse 1:
    C
At Queenston now, the General
    F
on his tower stands alone
    C
And there’s lichen on ‘MacDonnell’
    G
carved upon that weathered stone
    Em
In a corner of the monument
    F       C       Dm
to glory you could claim
        C          G                   C
But not one in ten thousand knows your name

Chorus:
    G
You brought the field all standing
          F                C
With your courage and your luck
    Em
But unknown to most, you’re lying there
Dm                 G
Beside old General Brock
            C
So you know what it is to scale the Heights
F             C        Dm
And fall just short of fame
             C          G                  C
And have not one in ten thousand know your name