Tablature the old sod - Spirit of the West

          



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  Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:36:24 -0600

  From: tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Tim Campbell)

  

                                  The Old Sod

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                               Spirit of the West

                             album: Save This House

           transcribed by Tim Campbell  tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

  

  

  INTRO & FILLS:  G  D  G  D  G  D  Bm  A  G  D  G  D  Bm  D  A  D

  

  

           G              D

  >From the old sod to the new land

          G           D

  We came over by the score

     G                D

  We cut the ties and said goodbye

      Bm                   A

  And closed the old world door

     G               D

  We settled on your praries

          G               D

  In your cities and your towns

            Bm            D

  There's another oatmeal savage

       A              D

  Everytime you turn around

  

  

          Chorus

  

                          D    A    D

                  There's none more Scots

                           G      D

                  Than the Scots abroad

                            Bm           D

                  There's a place in our hearts

                          A   D

                  For the old sod

                          D    A    D

                  There's none more Scots

                           G      D

                  Than the Scots abroad

                            Bm           D

                  There's a place in our hearts

                          A   D

                  For the old sod

  

  

          FILL (same as intro)

  

  

  We soon found our own kind

  Formed clubs and social nights

  And we practised on each other

  Just to keep our accents right

  For there's more tartan here

  Than in all the motherland

  We came 5000 miles

  To the gathering of the clans

  

  

          CHORUS

  

          FILL

  

  

  There's a bar in the rec room

  In the basement of our house

  A little shrine to Ballantynes

  Haig and famous Grouse

  There's a sprig of purple heather

  >From the land that once was mine

  And Robbie's on the t-towel

  With the words to Auld Lang Syne

  

  

          CHORUS

  

          FILL

  

  

  Canada's been good to us

  We've a living and a home

  We've all got central heating here

  And most are on the phone

  I'm a citizen of both countries

  And very proud to be

  For the the thisle and the maple leaf

  Are the emblems of the free

  

  

          CHORUS

  

          CHORUS

  

  

  

  

                  See the Unofficial Spirit of the West Homepage at:

                   http://gpu.srv.ualberta.ca/~tcampbel/spirit.html

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       "Don't dwell on what has passed away

        Or what is yet to be."

                                              -L. Cohen

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