Rogers Stan - Macdonnell On The Heights guitar chord

Macdonnell on the Heights     4/4     Stan Rogers     From Fresh Water

Standard Tuning / No Capo / Travis Picking Submitted by Ken Lee

Intro:     Two Bars of C (Cross picking) kandvlee@shaw.ca

        / C                        /Am

Too / thin the line that / charged the Heights, and

F                          / C

Scrambled in the / clay.

        / C                       / Am

Too / thin the Eastern / Township Scot

         / F                               / G

Who / showed them all the / way, and

         / C                         / Am  

Per - / haps had you not / fallen,

                  / F                             / Am

You might / be what Brock be - / came,

             / C              / F                                    / C        / /

But not / one in ten / thousand knows your / name. / /

      / C                                / Am

To / say the name, Mac - / donnell,

               / F                      / C

It would / bring no bugle / call,

             / C                                   / Am

But the / Redcoats stayed be - / side you,

                   / F                          / G

When they / saw the General / fall.

                    / C                             / Am

Twas Mac- / donnell raised the / banner then, and

F                              / Am

Set the Heights a - / flame,

             / C               / F                                  / C         / /

But not / one in ten / thousand knows your  /name. / /

Chorus:

        / G                              /

You / brought the field all / standing

                 / F                             / C

With your / courage and your / luck,

             / C                                   / Am

But un- / known to most, you're / lying there

        / F                           / G

Be - / side old General / Brock.

                       / C                 / Am

So you know / what it is to / scale the Heights, and

F                         / Am

Fall just short of / fame, and

                / C               / F                                 / C        / /

Have not / one in ten / thousand know your / name. / /

Break: Chorus instrumental

     / C                                / Am

At / Queenston now, the / General,

            / F                          / C

On his / tower stands a - / lone, and

              / C                         / Am

There's / lichen on "Mac - / donnell,"

                     / F                             / G

Carved up - / on that weathered / stone.

       / C                    / Am

In a / corner of the / monument,

     / F                        / Am

To / glory you could / claim,

             / C               / F                                  / C

But not / one in ten / thousand knows your / name.

        / G                              /

You / brought the field all / standing,

                 / F                           / C

With your / courage and your / luck,

             / C                                  / Am

But un- / known to most, you're / lying there,

        / F                         / G      

Be - / side old General / Brock.

                      / C                 / Am

So you know / what it is to / scale the Heights, and

F                         / Am

Fall just short of / fame, and

               / C               / F                                  / C        / /

Have not / one in ten / thousand know your / name. / /

Repeat Chorus:, then last three lines instrumental