Misc - Acres Of Clams guitar tab

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{title:Acres of Clams}

{st:Judge Francis B. Henry}

{c:tune:Rosin the Beau}

[C]I've travelled all over this country,

Prospecting and digging for [F]gold.

I've [C]tunneled, hydraulic'd and cradled,

And I have been [G7]frequently [C]sold.

{c:Chorus:}

And [C]I have been frequently sold,

And I have been frequently [F]sold.

I've [C]tunneled, hydraulic'd and cradled,

And I have been [G7]frequently [C]sold.

For one that get riches by mining,

Perceiving that hundreds grow poor,

I made up my mind to try farming,

The only pursuit that is sure.

{c:Chorus.}

So rolling my grub in my blanket,

I left all my tools on the ground,

I started one morning to shank it,

For a country they call Puget Sound.

{c:Chorus.}

Arriving flat broke in mid winter,

I found it enveloped in fog,

And covered all over with timber,

Thick as hair on the back of a dog.

{c:Chorus.}

I staked out a claim in the forest,

And set myself down to hard toil,

For two years I chopped and I loggered,

But I never got down to the soil.

No longer the slave of ambition,

I laugh at the world and it's shams,

I think of my happy condition,

Surrounded by acres of clams.

{c:Chorus.}

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# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives

# by Steve Putz

# 7 September 1992