Chords for The Watersons-The Thirty Foot Trailer

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_ The old ways are changing, you [Bb] cannot _ [C] deny [F] The day of the _ _ traveller's [Bb] _
[C] over
_ [F] There's nowhere [Bb] to go and [F] there's nowhere [Bb] to bide So [F] farewell to the life [Bb] of the _ [F] rover
_ _ Farewell to the tent [Bb] and the old _
[C] caravan [F] To the tinker, [Bb] the gypsy, [F] the travelling man _
Farewell to the thirty [Bb] foot _ _ [F] trailer _ _ _ _
Farewell to the canton, the [Bb] _ [C] travelling tongue [F] _ Farewell to the Roman e _ [Bb] _ [C]
-token
[F] The _ _ [Bb] bayonet, selling [F] the old [Bb] fortune Telling [F] the knock on the door [Bb] and the _
_ [F] hawking
_ Farewell to the tent and [Bb] the [C] old _ caravan To [F] the tinker, [Bb] the gypsy, [F] the _ travelling man
_ Farewell to the thirty [Bb] foot _ _ [F]
trailer
_ _ _ You've got to move fast to keep up [Bb] with [C] the times [F] For these days a man cannot _ _ _ [C] donder
[Bb] There's a bylaw to say you [F] must be [Bb] on your way [F] And an order to say you can't _ _ wander
_ Farewell to the tent and [Bb] the old _ [C] _ caravan To [Dm] the tinker, [Bb] the gypsy, [F] the _ travelling man
_ Farewell to the thirty foot _ trailer _ _ _
_ _ Farewell to the besoms of heather [Bb] [C] and broom _ [F]
Farewell to the creel and the [Bb] _
_ [C] basket
[F] For the folks are [Bb] too dead, they [F] would far [Bb] soon appear For [F] a thing that's been made out [Bb] of _ _ [F] plastic
_ Farewell to the tent [Bb] and the old _ [C]
caravan [F] To the tinker, [Bb] the [F] gypsy, the _ travelling man _
Farewell to the thirty [Bb] foot _ _
[F] trailer
_ _ _ _ Farewell to the pony, the cob [Bb] and [C] the mare [F] Why the reins and the harness are [Bb] _ [Cm] _ idle
You [Fm] don't need [Bb] a strap when [F] you're breaking [Bb] up scrap So [F] farewell to the mitt [Bb] and the _ [F] _ bridle
_ Farewell to the tent [Bb] and the old [C] caravan [F] To the tinker, [Bb] the gypsy, [F] the _ travelling man
Farewell to the thirty foot [Bb] _ _ [F] trailer _ _ _
_ Farewell to the fields where we've [Bb] sweated [C] and toiled [F] At pulling and showing and _ [Bb] _
[C] lifting
_ [F] They'll soon [Bb] have machines and [F] there's travel [Bb] in coins And [F] the men for God better [Bb] be _ [F] shifting
_ _ Farewell to the tent [Bb] and the old [C] _
caravan [Fm] To the [Bb] tinker, the [F] gypsy, the _ travelling man _
Farewell to the thirty [Bb] foot _ [F] _
trailer _ _ _ _ _ _
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