Progress chords by Colin Buchanan

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Verse 1
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I've seen the struggle of the daring ones
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I've seen the work road with calloused hands
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I've seen a world that
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clung so desperately
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In days that now have passed
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I've seen the rusting iron once so proud
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I've seen the fields they cleared tree by
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tree I've seen the rem
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nants of their in dustry
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In days that now have passed
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All that's gone before us
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Seems so easily forgotten
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The sweat that's
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dripped on dusty soils
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Remembered by so few
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But women, men and children died
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To open up this countryside
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It seems as if their memory
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Is fading from our view
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They saw the houses
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built stone by stone
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They saw the families watch hungrily
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They saw the rains  come and thank the
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Lord
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In days that now have passed
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They saw the tracks they came
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by turn to roads
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They saw the traders come
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and watch towns grow
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They saw the railway open up the land
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In days that now have passed
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All that's gone before us
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seems so easily forgotten
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The sweat that's dripped on dusty
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soils remembered by so few
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But wo  men,
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men and children  died to open up this countryside
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It seems as if their memory is fading from our
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view
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I see the semis on the as phalt road
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I   see the comfort of passing cars
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I see them splitting past
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the outskirts of
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the days that now have passed
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I   see the local people
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watch the change
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I   see the lives reflect
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what's gone before
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I  see them as perhaps the final link
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to the days that now have passed
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All that's gone before us
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seems so easily forgotten
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The sweat that's dripped on dusty
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soils remembered by so few
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But women, men,
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and children died  to open up this countryside
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It seems as if their memory is fading from our
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view
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