Spirit of The West

Spirit of The West - The Old Sod guitar chord

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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 20:36:24 -0600

From: tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Tim Campbell)

The Old Sod

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Spirit of the West

album: Save This House

transcribed by Tim Campbell tcampbel@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca

INTRO & FILLS: G D G D G D Bm A G D G D Bm D A D

G D

>From the old sod to the new land

G D

We came over by the score

G D

We cut the ties and said goodbye

Bm A

And closed the old world door

G D

We settled on your praries

G D

In your cities and your towns

Bm D

There's another oatmeal savage

A D

Everytime you turn around

Chorus

D A D

There's none more Scots

G D

Than the Scots abroad

Bm D

There's a place in our hearts

A D

For the old sod

D A D

There's none more Scots

G D

Than the Scots abroad

Bm D

There's a place in our hearts

A D

For the old sod

FILL (same as intro)

We soon found our own kind

Formed clubs and social nights

And we practised on each other

Just to keep our accents right

For there's more tartan here

Than in all the motherland

We came 5000 miles

To the gathering of the clans

CHORUS

FILL

There's a bar in the rec room

In the basement of our house

A little shrine to Ballantynes

Haig and famous Grouse

There's a sprig of purple heather

>From the land that once was mine

And Robbie's on the t-towel

With the words to Auld Lang Syne

CHORUS

FILL

Canada's been good to us

We've a living and a home

We've all got central heating here

And most are on the phone

I'm a citizen of both countries

And very proud to be

For the the thisle and the maple leaf

Are the emblems of the free

CHORUS

CHORUS

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"Don't dwell on what has passed away

Or what is yet to be."

-L. Cohen

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