Chords for Show of Hands - Country Life

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Working in the rain, cutting [Eb] up [Bb] wood, didn't do my [F] little brother much [Gm] good.
Lost two fingers in a [Eb] chainsaw [Bb] bite, all he does [F] now is drink and [Eb] fight.
Sells a bit of [F] grass, hots [Bb] up [Cm] cars, [Gm] talks of travel, never gets [Eb] far.
Loves his [F] kids, left [Bb] his [Cm] wife, an everyday [Gm] story of [Eb] country life.
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And the red brick cottage where [Eb] I was [Bb] born is the empty [Dm] shell of a holiday [Gm] home.
Most of the year there's [Eb] no one [Bb] there, the village is [F] dead and they don't [Eb] care.
Now we [F] live on [Bb] the edge of town, [Cm] haven't been [Gm] back since the pub closed down.
[Eb] One [Dm] man's family [Bb] pays the [Cm] price, for another [Gm] man's vision of [Eb] country life.
_ _ _ _ [Gm] I'm singing _ [Eb] _ [F] ooooh, _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [Eb] [Dm] ooooh.
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My [Gm] old man, he's eighty [Eb]-four, [Bb] his generation [F] won the war.
[Gm] He left the farm for other [Eb] women, [Bb] only kept [F] on one he turned
[Eb] Landed gentry, [F] county [Bb] snobs, [Cm] where were you when [Gm] they lost their [Eb] jobs?
No one marched [F] or [Bb] subsidized [Cm] to save a [Gm] country or way [Eb] of _ _ life
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Silent fields, _ empty [G] lanes, drifting smoke, distant flames
Dead to postcards, clothes [Dm] on [G] fire, still [Gm] burning, ain't zero by _
[Eb] Out the [F] graves, they [Bb] look so [Cm] sweet, we hate the [Gm] blood, we want the meat
[Eb] Buy me [Dm] a beer, I'll [Bb] take my [Cm] knife, cut you [Gm] a slice of country [Eb]
life
Yeah, I'm [Gm] _ sick of
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If [Eb] _ _ [F] _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm] you want your [Eb] true love, here's your deal
[F] There's army farms up around [Gm] the hill _ [Eb] Hammerblows with signs in [F] scale
Putting out the [Gm] fire in the day
The coffin of [Eb] our industry
[F] Lies out on the [Gm] village green
Where Agri [Eb]-barons cap in [F] hand
Strip this green and [Gm] pleasant land of metal
[Eb] Woodland hedge upon
[Dm] What remains gets built [Gm] upon
No [Eb] trains, no [Dm] jobs, no shops, no [Gm]
pubs
What [Eb] we're like, [F] _ _ what we're [Gm]
like
[Eb] Country [Dm] life, _ [Gm] country life _ [Eb] Country [F] life
It's [Dm] a little bit of country [Gm] life _ _ _ _ _