{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1824670,"song":"The Manchester Rambler","artist":"The Dubliners","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11403027-the-manchester-rambler-chords-by-the-dubliners/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1824670?type=chord","rating":4.86895,"votes":30,"content":"\r\nCapo on 5 for correct key = E\r\n\r\nIntro = [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\nVerse 1\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI've been over Snowdon, I've slept upon Crowdon[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've camped by the Waynestones as well[/tab]\r\n\r\nI've sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd many more things I can tell[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy rucksack has oft been me pillow[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe heather has oft been me bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd sooner than part from the mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI think I would rather be dead[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus     \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get all me pleasure the hard moorland way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI may be a wage slave on Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I am a free man on Sunday[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 2\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe day was just ending and I was descending[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDown Grinesbrook just by Upper Tor[/tab]\r\n\r\nWhen a voice cried \"Hey you\" in the way keepers do\r\n[tab]                                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe'd the worst face that ever I saw[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe things that he said were unpleasant[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the teeth of his fury I said[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Sooner than part from the mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI think I would rather be dead\"[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus     \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get all me pleasure the hard moorland way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI may be a wage slave on Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I am a free man on Sunday[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe called me a louse and said \"Think of the grouse\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell i thought, but I still couldn't see[/tab]\r\n\r\nWhy all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nCouldn't take both the poor grouse and me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe said \"All this land is my master's\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAt that I stood shaking my head[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNo man has the right to own mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAny more than the deep ocean bed [/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus    \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get all me pleasure the hard moorland way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI may be a wage slave on Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I am a free man on Sunday[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI once loved a maid, a spot welder by trade[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nShe was fair as the Rowan in bloom[/tab]\r\n\r\nAnd the bloom of her eye watched the blue moorland sky\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI wooed her from April to June[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOn the day that we should have been married[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI went for a ramble instead[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor sooner than part from the mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI think I would rather be dead[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus     \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get all me pleasure the hard moorland way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI may be a wage slave on Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I am a free man on Sunday[/tab]\r\n\r\nVerse 4\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nSo I'll walk where I will over mountain and hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll lie where the bracken is deep[/tab]\r\n\r\nI belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere the grey rocks lie ragged and steep[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've seen the white hare in the gullys[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the curlew fly high overhead[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd sooner than part from the mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI think I would rather be dead[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus     \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI get all me pleasure the hard moorland way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI may be a wage slave on Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut I am a free man on Sunday[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo on 5 for correct key = E\n\nIntro = C G C\n\nVerse 1\n\n\n\nI've sunbathed on Kinder, been burned to a cinder\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus     \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 2\n\n\n\nWhen a voice cried \"Hey you\" in the way keepers do\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus     \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 3\n\n\n\nWhy all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus    \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 3\n\n\n\nAnd the bloom of her eye watched the blue moorland sky\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus     \n\n\n\n\n\nVerse 4\n\n\n\nI belong to the mountains, the clear running fountains\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus","chords":["E","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}