Cousin Jack

	  		
verse 1 

F#m                     D 
This land is barren and broken 
E                            A     E 
Scarred like the face of the moon 
F#m                     C#m 
Our tongue is no longer spoken 
D                     E 
Towns all around face ruin 
F#m                       D 
Will there be work in New Brunswick 
E                       A    E 
Will I find gold in the Cape 
F#m                        C#m 
If I tunnel way down to Australia 
D              E 
Oh, how will I ever escape 

A                         E 
Where there?s a mine or a hole in the ground 
F#m                          D 
That?s what I?m heading for that?s where I?m bound 
E                        A         E          D    E 
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein 
A                             E 
Where the copper the clay the arsenic and tin 
F#m                        D 
Run in your blood and get under your skin 
E                       A             E          D 
I?m leaving the county behind and I?m not coming back 
    E         D           F#m 
So, follow me down cousin Jack 


verse 2 

F#m                           D 
The soil was too poor to make Eden 
E                       A       E 
Granite and sea left no choice 
F#m                            C#m 
Though visions of heaven sustained us 
D                          E 
When John Wesley gave us a voice 
F#m                             D 
Did Joseph once come to St Michael?s mount 
E                            A     E 
Two thousand years pass in a dream 
F#m                                 C#m 
When you?re working your way in the darkness 
D                        E 
Deep in the heart of the seam 
 

A                         E 
Where there?s a mine or a hole in the ground 
F#m                          D 
That?s what I?m heading for that?s where I?m bound 
E                        A         E          D    E 
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein 
A                             E 
Where the copper the clay the arsenic and tin 
F#m                        D 
Run in your blood and get under your skin 
E                       A             E          D 
I?m leaving the county behind and I?m not coming back 
    E         D           F#m 
So, follow me down cousin Jack 



verse 3 

F#m                        D 
I dream of a bridge on the Tamar 
E                     A     E 
It opens us up to the east 
F#m                         C#m 
And the English live in our houses 
D                       E 
The Spanish fish in our seas 


A                         E 
Where there?s a mine or a hole in the ground 
F#m                          D 
That?s what I?m heading for that?s where I?m bound 
E                        A         E          D    E 
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein 
A                             E 
Where the copper the clay the arsenic and tin 
F#m                        D 
Run in your blood and get under your skin 
E                       A             E          D 
I?m leaving the county behind and I?m not coming back 
    E         D           F#m 
So, follow me down cousin Jack