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Ballad Of Stompin' Tom chords by 
Stompin' Tom Connors 
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Verse 1
G
F
G
I was born in old St. John
C
in Brunswick -by -the -Sea
G
A
Back in 1936 it was just my mom and me
D
G
And as she wandered
through the land
C
shunned by family
G
She often had to beg for bread
D
G
while I was only three
C
G
She taught me to hitchhike
D
G
and face the road alone,
C
G
And sing about what life was like
D
G
for those that had no home.
D
G
Lee, Lee, Lee
Well, I turned four in Halifax,
C
G
five in Montreal,
In every small town in between,
A
by six I knew them all.
D
G
And when the long road
C
took us back to St. John,
G
Mama cried.
C
G
That night the strong arm of the law
D
G
tore me from her side.
C
G
And they made me an orphan
D
G
and taught me not to roam.
C
G
Just cry myself to sleep at night
D
G
and not be a rolling stone.
D
G
H 'lee, h 'lee, h 'lee.
By the time that I turned eight
C
G
they said that I was cured,
Cured from all that wonder lust
A
D
to which I had been lured,
G
And just in case my mum
C
G
would try to find out where I'd gone,
C
G
They shipped me off to P .E .I.
D
to a farm in Skinner's Pond.
G
C
G
And though I loved the country
D
G
I called this island home
C
G
I'd sing about what life was like
D
G
D
G
With a mother's love unknown
When I was thirteen years of age
C
G
I couldn't take no more
I ran away from home one day
A
And left my island shore
D
G
And while the Maudies
C
G
everywhere were lookin' for their man,
C
G
On a merchant ship from old St. John
D
G
I sailed for new -found land.
C
G
And away out on the Grand Banks
D
G
the truth came like a knife,
C
G
A drifter I would always be
D
G
D
G
upon the roads of life.
Before the age of seventeen
C
G
I seen this country wide
An old guitar I'd gladly play
A
D
and I'd thank you for the ride
G
And many a conversation's had
C
G
through my journey long
C
G
They wound up in my repertoire
D
G
of Canadian country songs
C
G
And everywhere I traveled,
D
G
I dreamed along the way,
C
G
God might make this vagabond
D
G
a country star some day.
D
G
P 'lee, p 'lee, p 'lee.
Then one night in Timmonstown,
C
North Ontario,
G
They said, if you can sing,
A
we'll keep you round for a week or so.
D
G
I packed the place
for fourteen months
C
and before they let me go
G
C
G
I'm drivin' a car, I got a new guitar
D
and I'm singin' on the radio
G
C
G
From there this old hitchhiker,
D
he was on his road to fame
G
C
With bud to spud from
G
the bright red mud
D
G
D
G
and the good ol' hockey game
Then came Sudbury's Saturday night
C
at the Gumboot Loggeroo
G
They made me the chairman of the board
A
till I stomped the whole ride through
D
G
And like old Luke with his old guitar,
C
my song wasn't over yet
G
C
Till I sang the ode
G
that I wrote for the road
D
G
and the mum that I can't forget
C
G
And when the party was over
D
I began to write this song
G
C
And tonight you've
G
heard me sing the words
D
G
to the ballad of Stompin' Tom
C
Tonight you've heard
G
me sing the words
D
G
to the ballad of Stompin' Tom
D
G
Oodly, oodly, oodly you
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