Key: C# minor
Verse 1
C#m
E
Harold Wilson is my name, son
Verse 2
G#
A
It's a story that I'm sure you know well
E
B
It's a story that I'm sure you know well
C#m
Verse 3
E
B
I spent my afternoons trying
to figure out what to plant
C#m
Verse 4
E
C#m
Did you ever try to farm a farm
With a pick and a shovel
B
E
Starin' down across the town
for a hundred dollars
C#m
Verse 5
B
E
There wasn't money in corn
E
B
If I was ever going to pay
Well, I had three weeks
C#m
Verse 6
B
E
Did you ever try to farm a farm
B
E
Try to put a field into corn
B
E
Starin' down across the town
there's a vacant room
C#m
E
B
And you could stay there by the month
the month for a hundred dollars
C#m
Verse 7
he turned, I swear he hollered
C#m
Verse 8
B
E
C#m
Did you ever try to farm a farm
With a pick and a shovel
B
E
C#m
Try to put a field into corn
Just wouldn't grow nothin'
B
E
Starin' down across the town
E
B
And you could stay there by
the month for a hundred dollars
C#m
E
B
And you could stay there by
the month for a hundred dollars
C#m
Verse 9
cheques come down the pike
Verse 10
is my name, son
At the Paradise Motel
C#m
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