Chords for JEZ LOWE Spitting Cousins - Royal Oak Folk Lewes
Tempo:
159.8 bpm
Chords used:
D
Gm
Dm
A
Am
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
I did when I went to Australia for the first time back in the mid -1990s.
And I met a fellow there [N]
in New South Wales, but originally he was from Tyneside, [Eb] he was from South [D]
Sheathes.
And he'd gone over [Gb] to Australia in the early 1960s with his parents when he was [D] a kid.
[N] It was that deal at the time, as I remember, he paid [G] £10 and it was [Dm] time he could emigrate to Australia.
Of course [Ab] he'd stolen £10 from his parents.
[D] Anyway, this family [C] had settled in New [D] South Wales and done very well for themselves.
And then about [A] 20 years [D] ago, I guess, 25 years ago, this fellow decided he was going to come back to Tyneside
to visit his long lost relatives that he hadn't seen for 20 years.
He came all the way back expecting to be welcomed like the prodigal son [Dm] returning back to the family.
But instead he got back and he found the people in [E] Tyneside were very bitter, very jealous, very angry, very English I think the [D] word is.
[D] They felt that while he'd been over there in the sunshine [Dm] having a great time, they'd been [C] stuck over here in the bad weather.
The song is called [D] Spitting Cousins [G] and it's written from the point of view of the people in Tyneside
who were simply confronted by this tall, muscular, [N] apparently slender, geek.
[C] You [D] know, how are they supposed to behave?
This was Spitting Cousins.
The chorus says, blood's no thicker than the cold North Sea no more.
[Dm] [Bb]
[Dm]
[Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Am]
[D]
You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true, [Gm] me father's father was your [Dm] foster.
[Gm] You pick your evening, [D] I work in here.
But then [C]
oh [Gm] Lord, [Dm] you spend your life [Am] in a land of [Gm] plenty.
Where I've spent mine, [Dm] but the bowl's been emptied.
[Gm] Cause one brother [D] stayed and one's rejected.
I'm a rock, [E] I'm good [Bb] and sure.
[A] [D] I'm good so leave it, and you'll hold no steel no more.
Instead of [Dm] too much [D] time and too [Am] much love, [Gm] I could have been the one to have [Dm] the things you've got.
[Gm] If my old man had [Dm] had a bit more, [G] it would have seemed [D] like the best [Bb] of all.
[Dm]
Now the years have [C] peeled away, and [Gm] you slip your hand back [Dm] in the family puzzle.
[Gm] Well I'm more spitting [D] than a kissing cousin, and me pride's been [Gm] read wrong.
[A]
[D]
Spitting Cousins North Sea no more.
[Gm]
How bloody stupid did you think [D] I'd be?
[Gm] You're not getting a single piece of the car [A] from me.
[D] Well you poke of [Am] sunshine in open spaces, [Gm] warm green [D] forest all over the place.
[Gm] Well I haven't been like [Dm] the wind and rain in me face, because [D] it's cold and [A] sore.
[Dm] It's so [D] clean and all the sea.
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Gm] It's been one of two changes since you [D] went away.
[Gm] You got coloured television, but real life [A] turned grey.
[D] Now you stand in my [Am] corner with your plastic dollars.
[Gm] You woo the women [D] and you charm the [Gm] fellas.
Why should I be bitter?
Why should I be jealous?
You're so bad for your [C] son, you're a [Gm] burning bore.
So [Dm] take your [D] presents and [Am] your tax [Gm] reboot, and your laughable hat and your [Dm] sexy [Gm] shoes.
And make like your [D] precious kangaroo, then hop off my damn [A] floor.
[D] Well it's good to live in North North Sea no more.
[Bb] [D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm] You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true.
[Gm] Me father's father [Dm] was your father's.
[Gm] Do you really think God would love you, if he didn't know [C] how to love [A] you?
[D] [Dm]
[D]
[N]
And I met a fellow there [N]
in New South Wales, but originally he was from Tyneside, [Eb] he was from South [D]
Sheathes.
And he'd gone over [Gb] to Australia in the early 1960s with his parents when he was [D] a kid.
[N] It was that deal at the time, as I remember, he paid [G] £10 and it was [Dm] time he could emigrate to Australia.
Of course [Ab] he'd stolen £10 from his parents.
[D] Anyway, this family [C] had settled in New [D] South Wales and done very well for themselves.
And then about [A] 20 years [D] ago, I guess, 25 years ago, this fellow decided he was going to come back to Tyneside
to visit his long lost relatives that he hadn't seen for 20 years.
He came all the way back expecting to be welcomed like the prodigal son [Dm] returning back to the family.
But instead he got back and he found the people in [E] Tyneside were very bitter, very jealous, very angry, very English I think the [D] word is.
[D] They felt that while he'd been over there in the sunshine [Dm] having a great time, they'd been [C] stuck over here in the bad weather.
The song is called [D] Spitting Cousins [G] and it's written from the point of view of the people in Tyneside
who were simply confronted by this tall, muscular, [N] apparently slender, geek.
[C] You [D] know, how are they supposed to behave?
This was Spitting Cousins.
The chorus says, blood's no thicker than the cold North Sea no more.
[Dm] [Bb]
[Dm]
[Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Gm]
[D] [Am]
[D]
You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true, [Gm] me father's father was your [Dm] foster.
[Gm] You pick your evening, [D] I work in here.
But then [C]
oh [Gm] Lord, [Dm] you spend your life [Am] in a land of [Gm] plenty.
Where I've spent mine, [Dm] but the bowl's been emptied.
[Gm] Cause one brother [D] stayed and one's rejected.
I'm a rock, [E] I'm good [Bb] and sure.
[A] [D] I'm good so leave it, and you'll hold no steel no more.
Instead of [Dm] too much [D] time and too [Am] much love, [Gm] I could have been the one to have [Dm] the things you've got.
[Gm] If my old man had [Dm] had a bit more, [G] it would have seemed [D] like the best [Bb] of all.
[Dm]
Now the years have [C] peeled away, and [Gm] you slip your hand back [Dm] in the family puzzle.
[Gm] Well I'm more spitting [D] than a kissing cousin, and me pride's been [Gm] read wrong.
[A]
[D]
Spitting Cousins North Sea no more.
[Gm]
How bloody stupid did you think [D] I'd be?
[Gm] You're not getting a single piece of the car [A] from me.
[D] Well you poke of [Am] sunshine in open spaces, [Gm] warm green [D] forest all over the place.
[Gm] Well I haven't been like [Dm] the wind and rain in me face, because [D] it's cold and [A] sore.
[Dm] It's so [D] clean and all the sea.
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Gm] It's been one of two changes since you [D] went away.
[Gm] You got coloured television, but real life [A] turned grey.
[D] Now you stand in my [Am] corner with your plastic dollars.
[Gm] You woo the women [D] and you charm the [Gm] fellas.
Why should I be bitter?
Why should I be jealous?
You're so bad for your [C] son, you're a [Gm] burning bore.
So [Dm] take your [D] presents and [Am] your tax [Gm] reboot, and your laughable hat and your [Dm] sexy [Gm] shoes.
And make like your [D] precious kangaroo, then hop off my damn [A] floor.
[D] Well it's good to live in North North Sea no more.
[Bb] [D]
[Dm]
[D]
[Dm] You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true.
[Gm] Me father's father [Dm] was your father's.
[Gm] Do you really think God would love you, if he didn't know [C] how to love [A] you?
[D] [Dm]
[D]
[N]
Key:
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Gm
Dm
A
Am
D
Gm
Dm
I did when I went to Australia for the first time back in the mid _ -1990s. _
_ And I met a fellow there _ _ [N] _
in New South Wales, but originally he was _ from Tyneside, [Eb] he was from South [D]
Sheathes.
_ _ And he'd gone over [Gb] to _ _ Australia in the early 1960s with his parents when he was [D] a kid.
_ [N] It was that deal at the time, as I remember, _ _ he paid [G] £10 and it was [Dm] time he could emigrate to Australia.
Of _ course [Ab] _ he'd stolen £10 from _ _ his parents. _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ Anyway, this family [C] had settled in New [D] South Wales and done very well for themselves.
And then about [A] 20 years [D] ago, I guess, 25 years ago, this fellow decided he was going to come back to Tyneside
to visit his long lost relatives that he hadn't seen _ _ for _ 20 years.
He came all the way back expecting to be welcomed like the prodigal son [Dm] returning back to the family.
But instead he got back and he found the people in [E] Tyneside were very bitter, _ very jealous, very angry, _ very _ _ English I think the [D] word is.
_ _ [D] They felt that while he'd been over there in the sunshine [Dm] having a great time, they'd been [C] stuck over here in the bad weather. _ _ _ _
_ The song is called [D] Spitting Cousins _ _ _ [G] and it's written from the point of view of the people in Tyneside
who were simply confronted by this _ _ tall, _ muscular, _ [N] apparently slender, _ geek. _
[C] You _ _ [D] know, how are they _ supposed to behave?
This was Spitting Cousins.
_ The chorus says, blood's no thicker than the cold North Sea no more. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true, [Gm] me father's father was your [Dm] foster.
_ [Gm] You pick your evening, [D] I work in here.
But then [C]
oh [Gm] Lord, _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] you spend your life [Am] in a land of [Gm] plenty.
Where I've spent mine, [Dm] but the bowl's been emptied.
[Gm] Cause one brother [D] stayed and one's rejected.
I'm a rock, [E] I'm good [Bb] and sure. _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] I'm good so leave it, and you'll hold no steel no more.
_ _ _ Instead of [Dm] too much [D] time and too [Am] much love, [Gm] I could have been the one to have [Dm] the things you've got.
[Gm] If my old man had [Dm] had a bit more, [G] it would have seemed [D] like the best [Bb] of all.
_ _ _ _ [Dm]
Now the years have [C] peeled away, and [Gm] you slip your hand back [Dm] in the family puzzle.
[Gm] Well I'm more spitting [D] than a kissing cousin, and me pride's been [Gm] read wrong.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ Spitting Cousins North Sea no more.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
How bloody stupid did you think [D] I'd be?
_ _ _ _ [Gm] You're not getting a single piece of the car [A] from me.
_ _ _ _ [D] Well you poke of [Am] sunshine in open spaces, [Gm] _ warm green [D] forest all over the place.
[Gm] Well I haven't been like [Dm] the wind and rain in me face, because [D] it's cold and [A] sore. _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ It's so [D] clean and all the sea.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ It's been one of two changes since you [D] went away. _ _ _
[Gm] You got coloured television, but real life [A] turned grey. _ _ _ _
[D] Now you stand in my [Am] corner with your plastic dollars.
[Gm] You woo the women [D] and you charm the [Gm] fellas.
Why should I be bitter?
Why should I be jealous?
You're so bad for your [C] son, you're a [Gm] burning bore.
_ _ _ So [Dm] take your [D] presents and [Am] your tax [Gm] reboot, and your laughable hat and your [Dm] sexy [Gm] shoes.
And make like your [D] precious kangaroo, then hop off my damn [A] floor. _ _ _ _
_ [D] Well it's good to live in North North Sea no _ more. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Dm] You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true.
[Gm] Me father's father [Dm] was your father's.
_ [Gm] Do you really think God would love you, if he didn't know [C] how to love [A] you?
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ And I met a fellow there _ _ [N] _
in New South Wales, but originally he was _ from Tyneside, [Eb] he was from South [D]
Sheathes.
_ _ And he'd gone over [Gb] to _ _ Australia in the early 1960s with his parents when he was [D] a kid.
_ [N] It was that deal at the time, as I remember, _ _ he paid [G] £10 and it was [Dm] time he could emigrate to Australia.
Of _ course [Ab] _ he'd stolen £10 from _ _ his parents. _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ Anyway, this family [C] had settled in New [D] South Wales and done very well for themselves.
And then about [A] 20 years [D] ago, I guess, 25 years ago, this fellow decided he was going to come back to Tyneside
to visit his long lost relatives that he hadn't seen _ _ for _ 20 years.
He came all the way back expecting to be welcomed like the prodigal son [Dm] returning back to the family.
But instead he got back and he found the people in [E] Tyneside were very bitter, _ very jealous, very angry, _ very _ _ English I think the [D] word is.
_ _ [D] They felt that while he'd been over there in the sunshine [Dm] having a great time, they'd been [C] stuck over here in the bad weather. _ _ _ _
_ The song is called [D] Spitting Cousins _ _ _ [G] and it's written from the point of view of the people in Tyneside
who were simply confronted by this _ _ tall, _ muscular, _ [N] apparently slender, _ geek. _
[C] You _ _ [D] know, how are they _ supposed to behave?
This was Spitting Cousins.
_ The chorus says, blood's no thicker than the cold North Sea no more. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true, [Gm] me father's father was your [Dm] foster.
_ [Gm] You pick your evening, [D] I work in here.
But then [C]
oh [Gm] Lord, _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] you spend your life [Am] in a land of [Gm] plenty.
Where I've spent mine, [Dm] but the bowl's been emptied.
[Gm] Cause one brother [D] stayed and one's rejected.
I'm a rock, [E] I'm good [Bb] and sure. _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] I'm good so leave it, and you'll hold no steel no more.
_ _ _ Instead of [Dm] too much [D] time and too [Am] much love, [Gm] I could have been the one to have [Dm] the things you've got.
[Gm] If my old man had [Dm] had a bit more, [G] it would have seemed [D] like the best [Bb] of all.
_ _ _ _ [Dm]
Now the years have [C] peeled away, and [Gm] you slip your hand back [Dm] in the family puzzle.
[Gm] Well I'm more spitting [D] than a kissing cousin, and me pride's been [Gm] read wrong.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ Spitting Cousins North Sea no more.
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
How bloody stupid did you think [D] I'd be?
_ _ _ _ [Gm] You're not getting a single piece of the car [A] from me.
_ _ _ _ [D] Well you poke of [Am] sunshine in open spaces, [Gm] _ warm green [D] forest all over the place.
[Gm] Well I haven't been like [Dm] the wind and rain in me face, because [D] it's cold and [A] sore. _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ It's so [D] clean and all the sea.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ It's been one of two changes since you [D] went away. _ _ _
[Gm] You got coloured television, but real life [A] turned grey. _ _ _ _
[D] Now you stand in my [Am] corner with your plastic dollars.
[Gm] You woo the women [D] and you charm the [Gm] fellas.
Why should I be bitter?
Why should I be jealous?
You're so bad for your [C] son, you're a [Gm] burning bore.
_ _ _ So [Dm] take your [D] presents and [Am] your tax [Gm] reboot, and your laughable hat and your [Dm] sexy [Gm] shoes.
And make like your [D] precious kangaroo, then hop off my damn [A] floor. _ _ _ _
_ [D] Well it's good to live in North North Sea no _ more. _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Dm] You share my [Am] name, I guess that's true.
[Gm] Me father's father [Dm] was your father's.
_ [Gm] Do you really think God would love you, if he didn't know [C] how to love [A] you?
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _