Chords for The Dalesman's Litany - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior

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_ _ It's [Ab] hard [Db] when folks can't find their [Ebm] work
Where they've [Db] been bred [Ab] [Ebm] and [Ab] born _
When [Ebm] I [Db] was young I always [Ebm] thought
I'd [Db] bite amidst roots and [Ebm] corn
_ But _
[Bbm] [Abm] I've been forced to [C] work [Db] in town
[Eb] So [Gb] here's my _ [Bb] litany
_ _ [Fm] _ From [Ebm] Holland, [Db] _
_ _ Halifax [Ebm] and Hell
Good [Db] Lord, deliver _ [Ebm] me
_ [Ab] _
When [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
I [Ab] [Db] was caught in Mary [Ebm] Jane
The out-squirer, [Db] he [Ebm] says to me
_ [Ab] _ _ [Ebm] I've [Db] got no rooms for _ wedded [Ebm] folk
Choose whether [Db] to go or [Ebm] to stay _
_ [Gb] I could not [Abm] give up the [Eb] girl [Bbm] I love
So to [Ab] town [Gb] I was forced [Bb] to flee
_ [Db] From _
[C] Holland, [Bbm] _ [Db] _ _ Halifax [Ebm] and Hell
Good [Db] Lord, deliver _ [Ebm]
me
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ I've [Db] worked in Leeds and _ _ [Ebm] Huddersfield
And I've earned [Db] some honest [Ebm] bread
[Ab] _ _ [Ebm] In _ [Db] Bradford, Keighley, Rath
[Ebm] _
_ I've kept [Db] me barons and [Ebm] lads
_ [Gb] I've _ [Abm] travelled all three [Ebm] _ [Bbm] ridings [Db] round
[Ab] And [Gb] once I went [Bb] to sea _
[Db] _ [Ebm] From forges, [Db] _ mills and coal in [Ebm] boats
Good Lord, [Db]
deliver _ [Ebm] me
[Ab] _ _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ I've [Db] walked at night through Sheffield [Ebm] lines
T'was just [Db] like being [Ebm] in [Ab] Hell
_ [Ebm] Where [Bbm] furnaces [Db] thrust out tongues of [Ebm] fire
And roared [Db] like the wind on the [Ebm] fell
_ _ [Gb] I've sand [Abm] up coals in [Ebm] [Bbm] Barnsley pit
[Eb] With [Gb] muck up to [Bb] my _ knee
[Db] [Eb] From _ [Bbm] Barnsley, [Db] _ Sheffield, _ [Ebm] Rutherham
Good Lord, [Db] deliver _ [Ebm] me
_ [Ab] _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ I've seen [Ab] [Db] fog creep across [Ebm] Leeds Bridge
As thick [Db] as the [Ebm] Bastille Sue
_ [Ab] I've [Ebm] _ lived [Db] where folks were stowed [Ebm] away
Like rabbits [Db] _ in [Ebm] a coo _
_ I've seen [Db] snow [B] float [Ebm] down _ [Bbm] Bradford [Db] Beck
[Ab] As black [Gb] as _ [Bb] ebony
_ _ _ [Eb] From [Ab] Hulls, [Db] Lett, Hullbeck, _ [Ebm] Whibsey, Stack
Good Lord, [Db] deliver _ [Ebm]
me
_ [Ab] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ But now [Db] that all our children [Ebm] have gone
To the [Db] country we've [Ebm] come [Ab] back
_ There's [Ebm] _ [Db] forty miles of heathery [Ebm] maul
Twixt us [Db] and the Colpitt [Eb] stand
_ _ [Ebm] _ [Gb] And as [B] I sit [Bbm] by the [Ebm] fire [Bbm] at night
[Ab] I laugh [Gb] and shout [Bb] with glee _ _
[Db] From [Ebm] _ [Db] Hull and High _ _ Fax
[Ebm] _ The Good Lord [Db]
deliver [Ebm] me _ _ _ _ _
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