Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
C#m
E
A
C#m
B
I've seen the struggle of the daring ones
E
C#m
B
A
I've seen the work road with calloused hands
A
B
In days that now have passed
C#m
B
I've seen the rusting iron once so proud
E
C#m
B
I've seen the fields they cleared tree by
A
B
tree I've seen the rem
E
A
nants of their in dustry
E
B
E
A
All that's gone before us
B
F#m
The sweat that's
B
A
Remembered by so few
G#
C#m
G#m
But women, men and children died
C#m
F#m
To open up this countryside
A
E
B
It seems as if their memory
F#m
E
Is fading from our view
C#m
F#m
B
E
B
A
B
E
built stone by stone
C#m
B
A
They saw the families watch hungrily
E
Lord
A
B
In days that now have passed
B
E
by turn to roads
B
A
and watch towns grow
B
E
They saw the railway open up the land
A
B
E
In days that now have passed
B
F#m
The sweat that's dripped on dusty
E
B
soils remembered by so few
A
Cdim
C#m
But wo men,
G#m
C#m
F#m
men and children died to open up this countryside
E
B
F#m
It seems as if their memory is fading from our
E
C#m
F#m
E
A
E
C#m
E
A
view
C#m
B
E
I see the semis on the as phalt road
C#m
B
A
I see the comfort of passing cars
E
A
the outskirts of
B
E
watch the change
A
B
E
I see them as perhaps the final link
A
B
E
to the days that now have passed
B
F#m
The sweat that's dripped on dusty
A
B
soils remembered by so few
A
Cdim
C#m
But women, men,
G#m
C#m
F#m
and children died to open up this countryside
E
B
F#m
It seems as if their memory is fading from our
E
C#m
F#m
E
A
E
C#m
E
A
view
F#m
You
A
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE C#m A B F#m...
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