Chords for SHOW OF HANDS - COUSIN JACK

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Absolutely perfect for a [N] Cornish lady.
_ And [B] it's true, one night, you know, that you've got, obviously, [Em] the walls of the roses up here,
but down [G] in Devon and Cornwall there's also quite a good rivalry.
I played [F] this song one night, and somebody came up to me and said,
I said, did you write Cousin Jack?
I said, I [F#m] did, it's a wonderful song.
[N] I said, Devon, next to this, you should manage your own business. _ LAUGHTER
_ [Em] _
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [C] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [Em] This land is [C] barren and broken,
_ _ stark like the face of the [G]
moon.
_ [E] _ [Em] Our tongue is no [E] longer [Bm] spoken,
_ [C] these towns all around [A] face [D] ruin.
_ _ [Em] Well, anywhere [C] in New Brunswick
_ [D] will I find gold [G] in my [D] cage.
[Em] If I turn my way down to [Bm] Australia,
_ [C] just how will I ever [D] escape? _
_ _ [G] Where there's mud and ore [D] in the ground,
[Em] that's where I'm ready [C] for, that's where I'm bound.
[D] Look for me under [G] the load,
or [C] inside the frame.
[D] The coffin, I am, I am, [G] where the coffin?
_ _ [D] I was thinking tin,
[Em] running your blood [C] again under your skin.
[D] I'm leaving my camels in the [G] vine,
and I'm not [C] coming back.
_ [D] So swallow me down, [Em] Cousin Jack.
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[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [Em] Soil was too hot to [C] make me eat,
_ _ [D] granite, steel and [G] dark shards.
[D] _ [Em] Who preserves those heavens [Bm] to stake us?
_ [C] And John Wesley gave [D] us the wood.
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] In Joseph was come to [C] St.
Michael's Mount,
[D] to the thousand-year [G]-passing dream.
_ [Em] When you were king away in the [Bm] darkness,
[C] so deep in the heart of [D] sea.
_ [E] [G] Where there's a mine, or [D] a hole in the ground,
[Em]
that's where I'm ready for, [C] that's where I'm [E] bound.
[D] Look for me under the [G] load,
or [D] inside [C] the frame.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] The coffin, I am, I am, where the coffin?
I was thinking tin, [Em] running your blood again [C] under your skin.
[D]
I'm leaving my [G] camels in the vine,
[D] and I'm not coming.
[C] _ _ So [D] swallow me [C] down, Cousin [Em] Jack.
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
Falling down,
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
in Camel and river,
[C] _ _ [D] lost in the [C] bottles [Em] of wine.
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ But there's work to be found,
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [D] _
in the road valley.
[A] And in Canada, [C] America, South Africa, Australia,
where _ [Em] I am bound.
_ _ _ _ [A] [C] So long,
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_ [E] _ _ [D] _ I shall [Bm] [C] come.
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] But they say, _ something stirs, _ _
_ _ underground.
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ Deeper,
than Will [A] James, _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] brings us home again.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] A dream of a bridge,
_ _ across the [C] tame mind.
_ _ _ And [A] it opens us all,
_ _ to the [C] _
East.
_ _ _ In my [Em] dreams, _
to the English,
_ living [C] in our houses.
_ _ _ _ The [D] smile,
_ _ that she [Em] now _ says,
_ _ _ _ _ [G] is a mine or [D] a hole in the ground,
[Em] That's where I'm ready [C] for,
that's where I'm bound.
[D] Look for me under the load,
or [C] inside the vein.
Come on, let's [D] sing this together.
One last time.
[G] Come on,
lay [D] where the oxen can drink blood,
[Em] running your blood [C] again under your skin.
[A] [D] I'm leaving the cows in the [G] vine,
I'm [D] not coming [C]
back.
[D] So follow me down, [Em] Cotton Jack.
_ [C] _ [D] Follow me [C] down, Cotton [Em] Jack.
_ _ _ [D] Follow me down.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ Follow me _ _ _ _ _ _ down.
_ Well done. _ _ _
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