Strong women rule us all Chords by Dick Gaughan

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_ _ _ [C] _ _ There's _
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a moment [C] of your [G] story _ [Am] that has always haunted me _
[Em] When you set out in [G] your moving boat to help the poor [D] man flee _
_ [G] Was Charlie Stewart's future _ [Am] already plain to see? _
[Em] _ Did you know [G] he'd be a waster all his day? _ _ _ _ _
But if [D] you did, _ I ain't give the [C] _ world to fight _
[D] _ A single _ tear [G] in your cry
_ From _ _ [D] the _ _ _ collapsed Tate and [C] _ _ Caroline _ _ _ _
He showed us [D] one dog, _
[C] the courage you [D] could call
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[C] the tears I would not [G] fall _ [D] from
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[G] after [C] _ [G] thirty years, [Am] after all that you'd been through
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Was the thought of [G] Barney Shelley just [C] a memory to [D] rue? _ _ _
[G] Did you watch [C] your husband [G] putting on his [Am] coat of scarlet hue _
To go and fight [G] hard German Geordie [C] Scraggs?
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[D] Did you never _ try _ to hide _ behind _ _ _
The dreams of _ days [D]
gone by
_ [G] _ _ _ From the _ _ collapsed _ Tate [C] and _ _ Caroline
He _ [Em]
showed us [D] one dog, _ [C] the courage you could [D] call
From [C] the tears [G] I would not fall from _ _
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_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ And there's [C] times I think [G] I see you _
[Am] When I find the kind of face
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[Em] Where a [G] woman's _ independence has [C] kept a woman's [D] _ grace
[G] Where _ confidence and pride _ [Am] refuse _ to know their place
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[Em] Or hide behind [G] the easy [D]
tricks of beauty
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[D] to me, your _ _ life's [C] a light _ _ that shines
[D] _ _ Across the _ _
[G] stormy sky _ _ _ _
[D] From the collapsed _ _ _ [C] Tate and _ _ _ Caroline _
He [Em] showed us [D] one _ _ _
[C] _ courage you could [D] call
From [C] the tears I [G] would not fall from
And your eyes, _ _ _ _
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_ _ eyes from [D] the _ _ collapsed _ [C] Tate and _ Caroline
_ _ _ _ Strong women rose [D] up _ [C] with the courage that [D] they called
_ When [C] the [G] tears refused to fall [D] _ [G] from _ _ _
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