Go Fishing

Tom: Bm
Intro: Em Em7 C D (D9   )

Bm7
We set out in the Spring =
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With a trunkful of books about everything.
Bm7
About solar devices
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And how nice natural childbirth is.
C7+/E
We cut down some trees and trailed our ideals
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Through the forest glade.
C7+/E
We dammed up the stream and the kids cooled their heels
	 B7
In the fishing pool we made.
Em			   Em7
We held hands and we exchanged bands
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And we practically lived off the land.
Bm7
You adopted a fox cub
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Whose mother was somebody's coat.
Bm7
You fed him by hand, then snuggled him down
       D
In the grandfather bed, while I wrote.
C7+/E
And we grew our own maize
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And I only occasionally went into town
C7+/E
To stock up on antibiotics
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And shells for the shotgun that I kept around.
Em					Em7
I told the kids stories while you worked your loom
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And the sun went down sooner each day.
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Bm7
Then the leaves all fell down,
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And the crops all turned brown.  It was over.
Bm7
As the first snowflakes fell
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I realized all was not well in the camp.
C7+/E
The kids caught bronchitis,
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The space heater ran out of diesel,
    C7+/E
One weekend a friend from the east
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(Rot his soul) stole your heart.
Em					  Em7
I said, =D9Fuck it then, take the kids back to town,
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Maybe I'll see you around.=D3
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And so leaving all our hopes and dreams
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To the wind and the rain,
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Taking only our stash,
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Left our litter and trash
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And set out =
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On the road again.