INTRO

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Bm
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D            G
Iron-clad feather-feet pounding the dust
      C      
D           Dsus4 
G

An October's day, towards evening
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D            G

Sweat embossed veins standing proud to the plough

  C       D          
Dsus4  G

Salt on a deep chest seasoning

Em        C            
D            G

Last of the line at an honest day's toil

C       D          
Dsus4  G

Turning the deep sod  under

Em        C            
D            G

Flint at the fetlock, chasing the bone

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Dsus4  G

Flies at the nostrils plunder.

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D             
G           C

The Suffolk, the Clydesdale, the Percheron vie

           Am            
D      Dsus4  Em

  with the Shire on his feathers floating

 C          
D     G          
C

Hauling soft timber into the dusk

    C       D           
Dsus4  G

  to bed on a warm straw coating.

F#7  Bm    G Bm       
G            A

Heavy Horses, move the land under me

F#7  Bm                  
G Bm             
G           A

  Behind the plough gliding --- slipping and sliding free

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D

Now you're down to the few

           
Bb          F

And there's no work to do

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Em        D  Bm