James Keelaghan

Stonecutter

James Keelaghan

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Stonecutter

Written by James Keelaghan

	  		Intro: C  Em  D-G  D  G  (3x) C  Em  D-G  D 

          G 
If you're down by Queen and Britain streets 
       D                  G 
You'll find Stonecutter's Lane 

The house that my Grandfather built 
      D              G 
Where I was born and raised 
C                 G 
My Granddad was a mason 
       D             C 
And my father in his time 
             D      G              C        
When my time came I signed as an apprentice lad 


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  G 



The early Nineteen Hundreds 
       D              G 
Were a rich, fat afternoon 

We were cutting stone like demons 
   D                 G 
No work was done too soon 
        C            G 
We were hired out on seven jobs 
    D              C 
And so to take the slack 
           D    G               C        
We put out advertisements for apprentice lads 


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  


Bridge: 

You'd never find a better crew 
C                   G    D 
They knew what work was 

Cornices and lintels 
          C                    G    
They laid stone like they were gods 
   D 
To hear the hammers ring out 
      Am       ~     C 
You'd think it was a song 


   G 
In August, Nineteen Fourteen 
       D             G 
In the sultry summer heat 

They took a vote in Ottawa 
    D              G 
The drums began to beat 
C              G 
Honour, glory, us or them 
    D             C 
The story doesn't change 
              D     G            C        
To a man they all enlisted, my apprentice lads 


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  


  G 
I didn't say that I agreed 
       D               G 
'Cause I knew what war was 

It was worker killing worker 
         D            G 
For some politician's cause 
    C             G 
And off to battle they all marched 
     D                 C 
They gassed them at Cambrai 
            D       G             C        
The dogs of war had done for my apprentice lads 


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  


Bridge: 

In Nineteen Sixteen fire broke out 
C              G       
Parliament was razed 
    D 
The call went out for masons 
     C               G    
To rebuild and to re-lay 
           D 
It was the contract of a lifetime 
    Am     ~       C 
The house upon the hill 


        G 
So they came out from Vancouver 
          D               G 
They came down from Montreal 

Master masons everyone 
          D               G 
They were answering their call 
          C            G 
There was no man under thirty 
   D                       C 
No man whose work I didn't know 
              D          G               C        
The fields of France had swallowed the apprentice lads 


INTERLUDE: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  


     G 
It's Nineteen Twenty-One now 
    D               G 
I'm standing at the peak 

About to cap the Peace Tower off 
        D               G 
There's no one here can speak 
    C            G 
The mortar for that stone we mixed 
     D                   C 
With clay from Flanders' Fields 
        D       G                 C        
Laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads 
                 D       G                 C        
Yeah, we laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads 


OUTRO: Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  G  C  Em  D-G  D  G 
		  

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