The Rawdon Hills chords by Stan Rogers

The Rawdon Hills - Words & Music by Stan Rogers
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A                   Gadd9             D7/F#          Gadd9
Worn down shacks of labour past, ...
     D/F#                  Em                G                 A7
Once brought by men to the ...
       A7/G               Gadd9             D/F#           Ema9
But before it could pass to ...
    G            A7                   G        D/F#
The Rawdon Hills once were ...

The grandsons of the mining men scratch ....

Bridge:
Fma9             Em                 D/F#
Grandsons of the mining men, ...
Fma9                  Em               D                    D/C
Beneath your father's bones still ...
                                        D
Of Quartzite, in a serpentine ...
    G                                     G
And along the Midland railway....
        G            A7                   G      D
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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