Hey, thanks for the Cousin Jack song, it's great. I've made a first-pass at a chord sheet for it. This is the same version of the song that's linked above on Youtube, it's track 12 on CD #1 of Roots - The Best of Show of Hands [2007]. On the recording they're in G, but I quite like it in C as well.

Cousin Jack
Show of Hands Live Version
(Played in key of G)

{3/4 Time - ~ 146 -152 BPM (mostly)
Tempo varies throughout piece,
doesn't seem to be to a click}

[Intro]

16 Measures Guitar/Piano intro
("this is Cousin Jack")

16 Measures Guitar/Piano + Bass etc

[Verse 1]

Em                      C
This land is barren and broken
D                            G    D/F#
Scarred like the face of the moon
Em                      Bm
Our tongue is no longer spoken
    C                     D
The towns all around face ruin
Em                        C
Will there be work in New Brunswick
   D                      G    D/F#
or will I find gold in the Cape
    Em                     Bm
If I tunnel way down to Australia
C               D
how will I ever escape


[Chorus]

G                         D
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground
Em                           C
That’s where I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound
D                     G       D/F#         
Look for me under the lode or inside the
C                   D
vein _____________________ (ah hah)
          G                         D
Where the copper the clay where the arsenic and tin
Em                        C
Run in your blood digging under your skin
    D                   G            D         
I’m leaving the county behind and I’m not coming
C             D         C
back__ __ So, follow me down cousin
Em
Jack ____________________________

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[Verse 2]

    E                         C
The soil was too poor to make Eden
D                      G       D/F#
Granite and sea left no choice
       Em                   Bm
Though visions of heaven sustained us
C                     D
John Wesley gave us a voice

{hold two extra measures}

    Em                     C
Did Joseph once come to St Michael’s mount
    D                        G    D/F#
Two thousand years pass in a dream
            Em                      Bm
When you’re working your way in the darkness
C                        D
Deep in the heart of the seam

("Where there's a mine, cmon")

[Chorus]

G                         D
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground
Em                           C
That’s where I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound
D                     G       D/F#         
Look for me under the lode or inside the
C                   D
vein ________________________________
          G                         D
Where the copper the clay where the arsenic and tin
Em                        C
Run in your blood digging under your skin
    D                   G            D         
I’m leaving the county behind and I’m not coming
C             D         C
back__ __ So, follow me down cousin
Em
Jack ____________________________



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{*Middle Section... time it out yourself*}

("Follow me Down")
("To Canada, America, South Africa, Australia")

Where there's a mine_
Or a hole in the ground

I'm leaving the county
Must I leave
My Town?

Canel? Broughdroove? Vloos?
Bwainbridge? Patsy? Port Isaac (??????)

Remember us, Remember our names
Remember the white cross, and the black flag
Yeahhhhhhhhh___

And the waves crash
to the shoreline

I dream_____ {echoes}
I dream_______

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[Verse 3]
{Half-Time feel}

Em                        
I dream of a bridge
          C
'cross the Tamar
   D                  
It opens us up
       G
to the east

      Em                                    
In my dreams, I see the English living in our
Bm
Houses ________
      C                        
I see the Spanish fishing in our
D
seas!!!


[Chorus]

G                         D
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground
Em                           C
That’s where I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound
D                     G       D/F#         
Look for me under the lode or inside the
C                   D
vein ________________________________
          G                         D
Where the copper the clay where the arsenic and tin
Em                        C
Run in your blood digging under your skin
    D                   G            D         
I’m leaving the county behind and I’m not coming
C             D         C
back__ __ So, follow me down cousin
Em
Jack ____

Come on,
Follow me down cousin Jack

Yeah,
Follow me down_______