Song Name: | The Dying Stockman | By: | Traditional |
Posted By: | Noel_Harmonica | Difficulty: | Beginner |
Key: | C | Genre: | Folk |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2008-03-03 05:03:32 | Modified: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Song: | Waltz Beat
Verse 1 6-5 5 5 5 -5 6 -5 5 6 A strap-ping young stock-man lay dy-ing, 6 -6 -6 -6 6 5 4 -4 A sad-dle sup-port-ing his head, 6 -5 5 5 5 -5 6 -5 5 6 And his com-rades a-round him were cry-ing, 6 6 -6 -7 7 5 -5 -4 4 As he leant on his el-bow and said: CHORUS 6 -5 5 5 5 -5 6 -5 5 6 "Wrap me up in my stock-whip and blank-et, 6 -6 -6 -6 6 5 4 -4 And bu-ry me deep down be-low, 6 -5 5 5 5 -5 6 -5 5 6 Where the ding-oes and crows will not find me, 6 6 -6 -7 7 5 -5 -4 4 In the shade where the coo-li-bahs grow". Verse 2 "Then cut down two stringybark saplings, Place one on my head and my toe, Carve on them crossed stockwhip and saddle, To show there's a stockman below". Verse 3 "There's tea in the battered old billy, Place the pannikins all in a row, And we'll drink to the next merry meeting, And say that a stockman lies low". Verse 4 "If I had the flight of a bronzewing, Away to my true love I'd fly, Straight to the home of my childhood And there I would lay down and die". Verse 5 "But hark 'tis the wail of a dingo, Watchful and weird I must go, For it tolls the death-knell of the stockman, Who soon will be lying below." Email [email protected] for details of $1 Aussie Harmonica Booklet. |