Fred J. EAGLESMITH
York Road
(Harmonica Intro.)  *CAPO ON THIRD FRET *

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Well the rains came the day she left, I never thought that they would.

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She turned away like all the rest, I never thought she could

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It hadn't rained for six months straight, and the crops weren't any good

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I'd taken too looking for food with a rifle in the woods.

(Chorus)

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So don't you turn your back on me, I might have a gun.

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Just listen to what I have to say, and you can carry on.

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These are desparate days, what's a man to do?

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Times got a little lean on me I had no one to lean on to.


In nineteen hundred and eighty-six, I walked off the farm
It was the year the Canadian Government put a tax on country charm
And when I told them I needed some time, they asked me where my money had 
gone.
And me living in a two-room shack that I could hardly keep warm.


(Chorus - harmonica solo)


When I was just a boy, my daddy said to me
Always stay straight and true and things will work out you'll see
Well if my daddy was here today to listen to me sing this song
I'd look him in the eye and tell him he was wrong.


(Chorus - repeat last line X2)




Submitted respectively,

Paul Hill