Dufferin County chords by Tamarack

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: C

Intro:

G F C

Verse 1:
             C                       G
He's got the dust of Dufferin County chafing at his neck
           G                          C
He's got a thirty dollar Timex on his wrist
             C                                  G
He likes the view from these fields as they run straight and flat and true
           G                          C
Out to the curve of the horizon on an evening like this

Chorus 1:
              F
And there's a fence line made of stumps and roots his grandfather pulled out
       C              Am              F
Of the rocky soil the glaciers left behind
             C                                G
Sometimes at night he hears the kids from the shop class in town
          G                                       C
Steal the warm red cedar wood for lamps and he'll curse the chainsaw whine

Verse 2:
             C                                  G
But it ain't good enough these days to love the smell of the soil
      G                           C
As it thaws beneath a warm spring breeze
            C                 G
It takes a class A mechanic's license, a computer,
    G                    C
And one of them O.A.C. degrees

Chorus 2:
           F
It takes a pretty good accountant with a pretty good background
       C               Am         F
In the law to keep the bankers at bay
       C                                G
And it takes a lot of pride to push the bitterness aside
      G                                   C
Stand back and watch the neighbours move away

Refrain 1:
         G                         C
And he remembers the ball games on Saturdays in summer
         G                            C
When the whole district turned out to play
            G                           C
And trading rumors with the boys at the cafe in town
D                                   G
Back before the Reichmanns siphoned all of the credit away

Verse 3:
            C                         G
Well it can get pretty cold up on the rooftop of Ontario
G                       C
Almost any night of the year
        C                              G
And the river that tries to drain this poor, swampy ground
         G                               C
It isn't big, but it still runs cool and clear

Chorus 3:
        F
And the starlight shines on the water
        C                 Am           F
And his breath curls like smoke in the air
       C                       G
And he wishes he was leaving a son or a daughter
        G                                      C
So that more than these fields would know that he'd been there

Refrain 2:
     G                         C
He remembers the Christmas Eve service in town
         G                            C
When the whole district turned out to pray
        G                C
And the pot luck suppers after the harvest
D                           G
Back before the last of the pastors got transferred away

Verse 4:
             C                       G
He's got the dust of Dufferin County chafing at his neck
           G                          C
He's got a thirty dollar Timex on his wrist
             C                                  G
He likes the view from these fields as they run straight and flat and true
           G                          C
Out to the curve of the horizon on an evening like this

Outro:
G C