Chords for Tickle Cove Pond

[G] _ _ In cutting and hauling [D] and frosting and snow, We're up [Am] against troubles that few [D] people know.
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[G] It's only by [D] courage and patience and grit And eating plain [Am] food [D] that we keep [G] ourselves fit.
[Em] The hard and easy we take as they come, [C] When ponds [G] freeze over [A] we shorten [D] our runs.
[G] To hurry me [D] hauling with spring coming on, I nearly lost me [Am] a mare [D] out on Chippewa's [G] cold pond.
Lay hold William, old ford, [D] lay hold William White, Lay hold [Am] of the cordage and pull [D] all your _ might.
[G] Lay hold of the [D] bowlin' and pull all you can, And help give [Am] a lift [D] with Corky [G] Don the Don.
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_ _ _ [G] I knew that the ice [D] grew weaker each day, Still took [Am] the risk and kept hauling [D] away. _
[G] One evening in April, [D] bound home with the load, My horse [Am] chose to halt [D] and go against the [G] ice road.
[Em] She knew more than I did, as matters turned out.
[C] _ Lucky [G] for [Am] me had I joined [D] her in doubt.
[G] She turned round her [D] head with a look in her eye, As if she [Am] was saying, [C]
you're [B] risking [G] our life.
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_ _ [Am] [G] All of a sudden [D] I ignored with a whip-handle blow, For [Am] man is a stupid [C] dumb [D] creature, you know. _
And [G] the very next moment [D] the pond gave a sigh, And up [Am] to our necks [D] went poor Kitty [G] and I.
Lay hold William, [D] old ford, lay hold William White, Lay hold [Am] of the cordage and [D] pull all your [Am] might. _
[G] Lay hold of the [D] bowlin' and pull all you can, And help give [Am] a lift with [D]
Corky [G] Don the Don.
[Em] And if I had taken wise Kitty's advice, [C] My mare [Bm] would have made that [A] short [D] cut on the ice. _
[G] Poor creature, she's dead, [D] poor creature, she's gone, I'll ne'er get [Am] me mare [D] out of the old [G] home farm.
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_ [Am] _ [G] _ I raised an alarm, [D] you could hear for a mile, And the neighbors [Am] showed up [Em] in a [D] very short while.
[Bm] You [G] can always depend on [D] the old bird's advice, To render _ [Am] assistance [D] in all your bad [G] plights.
[Em] To help a kind neighbor [G] is part of their lives, Same can be said [Am] of their [D] children and wives. _
[G] And with the rope [D] fastened around the mare's breast, William White, poor shanty-stomp, made [G] a request.
[Em] There was no time for thinking, no time for delay, [C] _ Straight from [G] his heart [Am] came this song [D] right away. _ _ _
Lay [G] hold, William [D] Oldford, lay hold, William White, _ Lay hold [Am] of the [C] cordage and pull [D] all your might.
_ [G] Lay hold, William _ [D] Oldford, and pull all you can, And help [Am] give a lift [D] with Corky Don the [G] Don.
Lay hold, William [D] Oldford, lay hold, William White, Lay hold [Am] of the cordage and pull [D] all your might.
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