INTRO:
F C Dm Dm Dm Dm
VERSE
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It's hard when folks can't find their work
C Dm
Where they've been bred and born.
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When I was young I always thought
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I'd bide midst fruits and corn.
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
But I've been forced to work in town
Dm F A
So here's my litany:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
From Hull and Halifax and Hell,
C Dm Dm
Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
Dm C Dm
When I was courtin' Mary Jane,
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Thee old squire, he says to me:
Dm C Dm
"I've got no rooms for wedded folk;
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Choose, whether to go or to stay?"
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
I could not give up the girl I loved,
Dm F A
So to town I was forced to flee:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
From Hull and Halifax and Hell,
C Dm Dm Dm
Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
Dm C Dm
I've worked in Leeds an' Huddersfield
C Dm
I've earned some honest brass;
Dm C Dm
In Bradford, Keighley, Rotherham,
C Dm
I've kept me barns an' lass.
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
I've travelled all three Ridin's round,
Dm F A
And once I went to sea:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
From forges, mills, and coalin' boats,
C Dm Dm
Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
Dm C Dm
I've walked at night through Sheffield lanes
Dm C Dm
Twas just like bein' in Hell:
Dm C Dm
Where furnaces thrust out tongues o' fire,
Dm C Dm
An' roared like the wind on the fell.
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
I've sammed up coals in Barnsley pit
Dm F A
With muck up to my knee:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
From Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham,
C Dm Dm
Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
Dm C Dm
I've seen fog creep across Leeds Bridge
C Dm
As thick as the bastile soup;
Dm C Dm
I've lived where folks were stowed away
Dm C Dm
Like rabbits in a coop.
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
I've seen snow float down Bradforth Beck
Dm F A
As black as ebony:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
Frae Hunslet, Holbeck, Wibsey Stack,
C Dm Dm
Good Lord, deliver me!
VERSE:
Dm C Dm
But now, that's all our children are gone
C Dm
To the country we've come back.
Dm C Dm
There's forty mile of heathery moor
Dm C Dm
Twixt' us and the coal-pit stack.
PD-C HORUS:
F Bb Dm C
And as I sit by the fire at night,
Dm F A
I'll laugh and shout with glee:
CHORUS:
Dm C Dm
From Hull, and Halifax, and Hell,
C Dm
The good Lord delivered me!
