Bob Dylan - Farewell To The Gold guitar tab

Farewell To The Gold (The Miner's Song)

Written by the New Zealand folk musician Paul Metzers

Played live by Dylan in Youngstown, OH Nov 2, 1992

Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem

Chords used:

Em7 xx2033

Cadd9 x32030 most often this seems to be played as a straight C

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D Em7 C D

Shotover River, your gold it is waning

C(add9) D G D

And it's years since the color I've seen.

D Em7 C D

No use just sitting, Lady Luck blaming

C(add9) D G C/g G

I'll pack up and make a break clean.

D Dsus4 D G D

Farewell to the gold that never I found,

D Dsus4 D G D

Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound;

G C G D

For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming

C D G

Down in the dark deep underground.

It's nearly three years since I left my old mother

For adventure and gold by the pound.

With Jimmy the prospector, he was another,

For the hills of Otago we were bound.

Farewell . . .

We worked the Cardrona's dry valley all over

Old Jimmy Williams and me.

They were panning good dust on the winding shotover

So we headed down there just to see.

Farewell . . .

We sluiced and we cradled for day after day

Barely making enough to get by;

Then a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away

During six stormy days in July.

Farewell . . .