Chords for Stompin' Tom, Leamington

_ And then of course when I first come up from PEI to seek my fortune in Ontario
Where all the gold bricks were supposed to be laying [D] on the street and I could pick up a few send them back home make everybody
[C] Happy as long as I didn't return with the bricks.
_ _ I
Wound up in a little town called Leamington in southwestern Ontario looking for a job.
I never had no
money
Nothing in me pockets
except lint
_ That just in me pants never had no friends never read a pot or the window either, you know what I mean?
_ _ _ And here I was I'm walking down the streets in Leamington and what to my great
Fortune I meets the town drunk _
_ He staggers up to me
And I stagger up to him
_ He said hey you what the big black cowboy [Ab] had on
Did where [Bb] are you from I
Said be I well, he [Eb] said be in your own eye if you don't want [Bb] to tell me
second [N] time I went back I
_ Run into this other father was hopscotch and diddly kabobling around Leamington too when I was looking for a job
This guy had one of them blue uniforms on with the funny peak on the cap and everything
All kinds of funny brass buttons and everything with a club in one hand and a gun in the other
He was one of them real tough ones, you know with two black belts one running this way and one [A] running around that way
_ [E] This cat comes to [Bb] bit.
Lee bubbling up to me and he says [N] I'm the chief around here.
I said what tribe?
_ _ He said look at funny, man
He said you're that funny guy.
It's been writing them funny songs about all these funny towns around here
He said listen funny, man
He said you're gonna write a nice [Gb] lovable song about our lovable town in Leamington.
Ain't ya funny man?
I said yes, [N] sir.
I sure am
Well, I done the best I could I come back with a song I kept my promise and they kept theirs
They booted me out of town.
Anyways, it's called a ketchup song
Goes good everywhere except in Leamington
_ [A] _ _ There was a guy from PEI they used to call [E] potato _ _
He met this young Leamington Ontario [A] tomato _
_ But he had eyes for other girls and she was a little [E] mushy
So he said well, let's get wed.
[E] No sense being [A] fussy
_ _ [D] Big size french [A] fries, but I love [E] tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup ketchup loves potatoes
ketchup [A] loves potatoes
_ _ _ _ _ Well, he went down to Windsor town to buy a [E] ring on Monday
Saturday they said okay, we'll cut the [A] cake on Sunday
But Sunday came and what it seemed they had [E] no one to fetch it
But out of cage he just sat and ate potato [A] chips and ketchup _
_ [D] Big size french [A] fries, but I love tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup ketchup loves potatoes
[E] ketchup loves [A] potatoes _ _
_ _ So this guy from PEI they used to call potato
_ He's got two boys and a little girl two spuds and [A] one tomato
_ They romp and run around Leamington and boy when they [E] get hungry
The bottle drips all over the chips way down in the ketchup [A] country _
[D] Big size french [A] fries, but I love [E]
tomatoes
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup ketchup loves potatoes
[E] ketchup [A] loves potatoes _ _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Now we'll just see how we're talking to [E] this newfoundlander the other day just come up to Toronto
He asked me says that all them people that run them boarding houses around here serve as bread and gravy
_ _ So I thought I'd sing [G] this little song and tell you all about this fella in his [C] escapades _ _
on Monday we got bread and gravy on
_ _ _ Tuesday was gravy [G] on bread on
_ _ _ _ Wednesday and Thursday it was gravy on toast
But that's the same as gravy on [C] bread _ _
So on Friday I goes up to the landlord.
Hey you
_ Give me something _ [F] instead
_ So on Saturday morning [C] my way of [A] a change was [G] gravy
without any [C] bread _ _