Key: D major
Verse 1
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D
Bm
Em
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The boy
ran away to the city
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D
From his home at Christmastime
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And to run from home was a crime
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D
The old man burned his letters
Em
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D
The first and last he burned
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And he scratched his name
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D
When his old wife's back was turned
Em
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D
And the fruit went down the line
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but the old man made no sound
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His name must never be mentioned
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on the farm by Gandhigan
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They were Scots of the Riverina,
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With ever the Kirk hard line.
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D
And the township's bonfire burned.
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The daughters begged for pardon,
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D
till the old man raised his hand
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I scarred off the riverina,
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it was hard to understand
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Bm
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The boy
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Where the bravest heroes died
There were tears at the
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But the old man plowed at daybreak
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And the old man plowed till the murk
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D
pain in the orchard
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While his house folk went
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Bb
Eb
to the kirk
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Fm
The hurricane lamp in the rafters
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Eb
dimly and dimly burned
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Bb
When his old wife's
back was turned
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Eb
Face down on his bare arms folded
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Eb
He sank with wild grey hair
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Bb
Eb
Outspread o 'er the open Bible
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Eb
And a name rewritten there
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