Chords for Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands - "Tramps and Hawkers"

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_ _ _ _ I choose the sea, not the [C] things that [F] be, for the miles [Bb] and years [F] have gone.
_ _ I pay no heed to tomorrow's need, I'm blinded by the snow and [Bb] the sun. _ _
[F] Still all I can see is my [Bb] darling [F] in me, like young flowers blooming [Bb] in spring.
_ _ [F] Like flowers with [C] bloom in the weather [Bb] I knew, [F] but the [Bb] roads are the same.
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_ _ Well the gypsies will [C] dance while stealing [Bb] plants, [F] as the sea [Bb] might blow in the [F] wind.
_ _ And the fields are worked, and the [Bb] sweat stains [F] shirt, till the workers move on [Bb] again.
_ _ And [F] the tramps and hawkers [Bb] with [F] soul, _
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_ _ [F] entice me [C] to leave [Bb] my home, [F] and the roads [Bb] and sand [F] walk in. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I've watched the [C] rise of light in the [Bb] sky, and [F] the world's _ [Bb] _ [F] sun and sea. _ _
I've seen giants fall, and [Bb] mountains [F] tall, where the lumbermen cut down the [Bb] trees.
_ _ [F] I've played in the sand and [Bb] the gulf [F] coast winds, and fell asleep in the grass tall [Bb] trees.
_ _ _ [F] You know where I've been, when [C] I go [Bb] back again, [F] _
to [Bb] the sand [F] walking. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Well the road back home [C] is long and it's [Bb] hard, [F] and the [Bb] miles and turning [F] years.
_ _ And the tramps and hawkers [Bb] in _ [F] every town, oh God what it brings me to.
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When I got home I crowned just a flower on a mound, where it seemed the green grasses [Bb] were straight.
_ _ It [F] grew from the grave of [C] my dear little girl.
_ And _ _ the _ [F] roads [Bb] and the sand [F] walk in. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Oh see us today [C] out on your [G] highway, [F] oh we sleep in the doors of the train.
_ See the gypsies dance with [Bb] their damned [F] old dances, and the pebbly shallows [Bb] and the rains. _ _
[F] And who's gonna care, [Bb] and who's [F] gonna share, all this joy and sorrow [Bb] we see. _
_ [F] Like ghosts we roam without [C] _
friends or [F] homes, these tramps and hawkers and me.
_ _ Like ghosts we roam [C] without friends [Bb] or homes, _ _ _ _ _ [F] these tramps [Bb] and [F] hawkers and me. _ _ _ _ _
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