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bluerabbit10 Songs about blacksmiths (66* d) RE: Songs about blacksmiths 05 Nov 10


Here's one I wrote couple years ago, about our Village (town) blacksmith:

http://c1.ezfolk.com/Lake_Fork_Verne/?song=8776

Town Blacksmith;
© by: Verne Garrison-04-02-07…Valley Park, Mo
Banjo adgbd (G tuning 5th spiked to A at 7th fret)
Medium speed—Key D

Town Blacksmith

My (D) home town had a blacksmith named Henry (E) Bosler
He was the (A) one on whom all the farmers (D) depend
Mr Bosler would make their plow shares (E) sharper
So they (A) could go back and plow their fields (D) again

He (G) had a little shed on the far side of (D) town
Where they (E) would come and form a long (A) line
If the (D) didn't get there real (E) early
They would (A) lose a day of plowing (D) time

Some (D) of the big farmers got real (E) edgy
And (A) wanted to move up and get out of (D) line
But Henry would stare at them with his heavy (E) hammer
They would (A) grumble, but get back in (D) line

Henry (G) Bosler was the village (D) blacksmith
And the (E) only one for miles a-(A) round
At (D) times, he could be real inde-(E) pendent
Make him (A) self scarce, not to be (D) found (D7)

Everyone (G) finally knew he was (D) needed
And they (E) made a point to thank him every (A) day
Then (D) Henry came down with a (E) sickness
And they (A) used a black wagon to haul him (D) away

Now (D) the town is very (E) sorry
That (A) they had treated him that (D) way
They took up a big (E) collection
And sent (A) it to his sister far, far (D) away

I (D) know the town did not (E) prosper
Without (A) Mr. Bosler there every (D) day
Some say it was his way of gettin (E) even
And that (A) he and his sister are spending that collection (D) today.


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