Chords for Chris Wood - The Cottager's Reply

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[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ £500,000 _ _ _ for _ this old house and a piece of ground
_ _ You and your wife, you've always planned To settle down in Cotswold Land
_ _ [G] Well you best [C] come in, you best sit down _ It's [G] such a long [C] drive from Eden _ Town
_ Would you like some tea now [F] while I [C] tell _ The reasons why I will not sell
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ This stone built house that you [F] call nice [C] _ _ Was gained at far too high a price
_ For me to gaily _ sign away What others toiled for night and day
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hammered [C] blue stone _ by the _ yard And [G] they found the [C] rent when [F] _ [C] times were _ hard
And they lived and died beneath the sun _ _ _ Tending the _ field _ _ you're _ gazing on
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_ _ _ _ _ Now they're all gone but [F] [C] as for me _ The wild hare still runs as free _ _ _
_ And at dusk the badger _ [F] travels _ [C] still _ [F] _
_ [C] Ancestral highways _ on the hill
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am as _ [C] Cotswold bred as _ these _ _ [G] And I still need these [Am] _ fields and trees
_ _ And I [G] need the [C] soil that bore [F] my _ _ _ race [C] And _ [F]
holds their bone _ [C] _ _ _
_ beneath this _ _ place
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_ _ _ [G] You say you'll [F] pay _ _ [C] £500,000 _ _ [G] For this old [F] house and a [C] piece of land _ _ _ _
Well London's about _ [F] four hours [C] from _ _ me But in your four by [F] five _ _
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[C] you'll do it in three _ _ _
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