Stonecutter James Keelaghan
INTRO: C Em D-G D G (3x) C Em D-G D
If you're [G]down by Queen and Britain streets
You'll [D]find Stonecutter's [G]Lane
The house that my Grandfather built
Where [D]I was born and [G]raised
[C]My Granddad was a [G]mason
And my [D]father in his [C]time
When my time [D]came I [G]signed as an ap[C]prentice lad
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The early Nineteen Hundreds
Were a [D]rich, fat after[G]noon
We were cutting stone like demons
No [D]work was done too [G]soon
We were [C]hired out on [G]seven jobs
And [D]so to take the [C]slack
We put out [D]adver[G]tisements for ap[C]prentice lads
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BRIDGE:
You'd never find a better crew
[C]They knew what work [G]was[D]
Cornices and lintels
They laid [C]stone like they were [G]gods
To [D]hear the hammers ring out
Am ~ C
You'd think it was a song
In [G]August, Nineteen Fourteen
In the [D]sultry summer [G]heat
They took a vote in Ottawa
The [D]drums began to [G]beat
[C]Honour, glory, [G]us or them
The [D]story doesn't [C]change
To a man they [D]all en[G]listed, my ap[C]prentice lads
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I [G]didn't say that I agreed
'Cause [D]I knew what war [G]was
It was worker killing worker
For some [D]politician's [G]cause
And [C]off to battle [G]they all marched
They [D]gassed them at Cam[C]brai
The dogs of [D]war had [G]done for my ap[C]prentice lads
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BRIDGE:
In Nineteen Sixteen fire broke out
[C]Parliament was [G]razed
The [D]call went out for masons
To re[C]build and to re-[G]lay
It was the [D]contract of a lifetime
Am ~ C
The house upon the hill
So they [G]came out from Vancouver
They came [D]down from Montre[G]al
Master masons everyone
They were [D]answering their [G]call
There was [C]no man under [G]thirty
No [D]man whose work I didn't [C]know
The fields of [D]France had [G]swallowed the ap[C]prentice lads
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It's [G]Nineteen Twenty-One now
I'm [D]standing at the [G]peak
About to cap the Peace Tower off
There's [D]no one here can [G]speak
The [C]mortar for th[G]at stone we mixed
With [D]clay from Flanders' [C]Fields
Laid it [D]in it's [G]place for those ap[C]prentice lads
Yeah, we laid it [D]in it's [G]place for those ap[C]prentice lads
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