Am7M = [x02110]
A5 = [5x4555]

Time: 4/4
Key: D Minor
Capo: 5 fret


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A5
                     Am7M
Pennies from heaven
                     A5
Don?t make me laugh
Here all you?ll get 
        A5
Is the pattering rain
    F5               C5
Or yon two crows up over the hill
         G5
Looking for winterkill

A5
Always at your boots
     Am7M              A5
The mud behind the byre 
           A5
With its clammy hold 
       F5
Would mock you up a grave
     C5                G5 
Here in the mire of a wrecked sheepfold

C5

And all you?ll bring to this 
    F5               C5
Is muscle and grit
                     F5             C5
Persistence, that?s just about it
What made you think
              F5
There?d be a living in sheep?
 C5  F5    C5             F5       
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep


A5

Duck under the eaves
        Am7M 
Of the bothy
    A5                A5  F5
To sit here, caged by rain
Somewhere to go conjure
   C5
A next move
                 G5
When I have to think again

A5
                   Am7M        A5
The dog lifts his gaze to plead
                           A5         F5
Believes the wizard has a magic stick
                     C5
Leans his weight into my tweed
                  G5
I give an unholy hand to lick

   C5
I take a swig of sheep dip 
  F5            C5
From my flask
           F5          C5
And once again I ask
What made you think
              F5
There?d be a living in sheep?
 C5    F5    C5            F5
Eat, work, eat, work and sleep


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A5

They were at this game 
             Am7M    A5
Two hundred years ago
Had thirty ways
          A5               F5
Of dying young, poor souls
                       C5
Laid to rest in their soggy rows
               G5
Rain on their holy books

A5
                  Am7M
Blood and whisky 
               A5
On the tongue
                         A5     F5
And no-one watching over anyone
                       C5
No-one left but your stubborn one
          G5
And the crows and rooks


C5
         F5           C5
Ah, the dying young 
     F5             C5
Well I?m not done
                 F5
You watch me and I?ll watch thee 
        C5
I can still work for two men
      F5              C5
And drink for three
And I raise my flask
         F5             C5 
To the clearing skies
To you, sweepers 
     F5             C5
You carrion spies
            F5            C5
To scavenge and survive
                  F5
If you can do it     so can I


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