Lyr Add/Chords Req: The Drovers (Keith Marsden)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add/chords req: The Drovers (Keith Marsden)
From: skipy
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 08:07 PM

Thanks for combining the thread, NOT! I'm not after the words I know them & I have the book! I'm after the chords!
But at least for once you did not take my thread down!
Skipy
Not a real "folkie" just some dick trying to find the chords!

Subject: Chord Req: Drovers Kieth Mardsden
From: skipy
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 07:22 PM

Help please
Skipy

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Drovers (Keith Marsden)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 04:49 AM

BTW Keith borrowed the main part of the tune from Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons".

Subject: Lyr Add: THE DROVERS (Keith Marsden)
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 11 Mar 03 - 08:34 PM

This came up in another thread Lyr Req:Drovers Dream and a version with some errors and omissions included there. I can't see the song in the DT or Forum, so I'm posting the version from the book Picking Sooty Blackberries - The Songs Of Keith Marsden (a book full of good songs - buy one!).
^^
Mick

THE DROVERS
(Keith Marsden)

Oh I was a lad when I first saw the sight
The gath'ring of beasts and men
The cobs off the halter and dogs running free
For the Drovers were on the road again.

Oh the droving days are done,
And the drover's way is run.
For there's railways laid and they've taken the trade,
And the droving days are done.

We cursed down the valleys, we cursed up the hills,
We stumbled through marsh, bog and fen,
Each year was the last but we knew in the spring,
That the drovers were on the road again.

For we had the freedom of high moor and fell,
No fences, nor walls bound us then,
The meeting with old friends at farmstead or fair,
When the drovers were on the road again.

But times are a'changing and farmers in greed,
Have cast out the proud drovin' men.
Our children will starve lest we find other work,
And the drovers are on the road again.

I'm old and there's no place at hirings for me,
For who wants the bent broken men?
I wish God would give back the days that we knew,
And the drovers were on the road again.