Rogers Stan

Rogers Stan - The Field Behind The Plow guitar tab

From: Barrie McCombs

THE FIELD BEHIND THE PLOW Time: 2/2 (sync) Tenor: G Bass: C

- Stan Rogers: 1981, on: Northwest Passage

INTRO: 1, 1

1 * 5 4 1

Watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows

2m * 4 5

Feel the trickle in your clothes, blow the dustcake from your nose

1 * 5 4 1

Hear the tractor's steady roar, oh you can't stop now

2m 57 1 *

There's a quarter section more or less to go

1 * 5 4 1

And it figures that the rain keeps it's own sweet time

2m * 4 5

You can watch it come for miles, but you guess you've got a while

1 * 5 4 1

So ease the throttle out a hair, every rod's a gain

2m 57 1 *

There's victory in every quarter mile

CHORUS ONE:

5 *

Poor old Kuzyk down the road

6m 4 1

The heartache, hail, and hoppers brought him down

* 2 5

He gave it up and went to town

* * *

... And Emmet Pierce, the other day

6m 4 1

Took a heart attack and died at forty-two

* 2 5 * 1 * 6m *

You could see it coming on, 'cause he worked as hard as you

CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO

NOTES:

- Instrumental break after first chorus

- Ending for last chorus: 2m-57-1 or 1-4-57-1

THE FIELD BEHIND THE PLOW PAGE TWO

1 * 5 4 1

In an hour, maybe more, you'll be wet clear through

2m * 4 5

The air is cooler now, pull your hat brim further down

1 * 5 4 1

And watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows

2m 57 1 *

Put a-nother season's promise in the ground

CHORUS TWO:

5 *

And if the harvest's any good

6m 4 1

The money might just cover all the loans

* 2 5

You've mortgaged all you own

* * *

... Buy the kids a winter coat

6m 4 1

Take the wife back east for Christmas if you can

* 2 5 * 1 * 6m *

All summer she hangs on, when you're so tied to the land

1 * 5 4 1

For the good times come and go, but at least there's rain

2m * 4 5

So this won't be barren ground, when Sep-tember rolls a-round

1 * 5 4 1

And watch the field behind the plow, turn to straight dark rows

2m 57 1 *

Put a-nother season's promise in the ground

ENDING: NO CHORUS, REPEAT LAST VERSE

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of C: C D E F G A B

- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)

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