Country Life Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

AmWorking in the rain, Ccutting up wood, Git didn’t do my little brother much good

AmLost two fingers in a Cchainsaw bite, Gall he does now is drink and fight

FSells a bit of grass, Ghots up AmcarsDsus2, talks of travel, neveFr gets far

FLoved his kids, Gleft his Amwife, an eDsus2veryday story of cFountry life

AmAnd the red brick cottage, where CI was born, is the eGmpty shell of a holiday home

AmMost of the year, there’s Cno one there, the vGillage is dead and they don’t care

FNow we live on theG edge of Amtown, Dsus2haven’t been back since the Fpub closed down

FOne man’s family Gpays the Amprice, Dsus2for another man’s vision of Fcountry life

Wooooah x 2

(Chords as above)

And my old man is eighty four, his generation won the war

He left the farm, forever when they only kept on one in ten

Land and gentry, county snobs, where were you when they lost their jobs

Noone marched or subsidised to save a country way of life

I'm singing wooooah x 2

(Break.)

AmSilent fields Empty lanes

GDrifting smoke Distant flames

AmPicture postcard Fields on fire

GCattle burning in funeral pyres

FOut to graze, they lGook so sAmweet, Dsus2we ate the blood we wore tFhe meat

FBuy me a beer i’ll Gtake my kAmnife and Dsus2cut you slice of countFry life

I’m singing Wooooah x 4

(back to verse chord structure)

If you want cheap food, well here’s the deal, family farms are brought to heel

By the hammer blows , scythes and scale, foot and mouth; the final nail

A coffin of our English dream, lies out on the village green

Where I grew balance, cap in hand, strip this green and pleasant land

Of meadow, woodland, hedgerow, park

What remains gets built upon

No trains, no jobs, no shops, no pubs, no where to run

Country life country life country life

(pause)

It’s a little bit of country - lAmife