{"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":2506230,"song":"These Dry Stone Walls","artist":"Gordon Bok","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11509675-these-dry-stone-walls-chords-by-gordon-bok/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2506230?type=chord","rating":0.18371,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Em[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThese miles of dry stone walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat hold, in ploughed brown fields, these kingly halls[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe dead of centuries in hills of sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe stones that bind them[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAre proud as what lies behind them[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd varied as the counties in this curious land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn Cumberland they built them[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOn hills that surely must have killed them[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThrough broom and juniper and stunted ling[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nTwo thousand feet over[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWith just a tarpaulin cover[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThey crouched in wind and rain and waited for the spring[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn Aberdeenshire valley[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe fields were only open quarry[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe stones were gathered up and made to stand[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut with every ploughing[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou'd think it was stones they'd been sowing[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe walls grew sadder here than any in the land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe Irish built in courses[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOf single stones the size of horses[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nOf glacial boulders, without edge or face[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut if you could view them[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAbove, the sun lighting through them[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou'd swear the hills were edged in broken granite rays[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen Pict and Viking took[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nStone pages from some prehistoric book[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA sandy flagstone under Orkney hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHailing there the while[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd left history in the islands[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThis is what water, wind and time and toil reveal[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFrom Yorkshire's limestone hills[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThrough Derbyshire to the coast of Wales[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFrom Shetland's salty rocks to Devon lane[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nJust look and discover[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTwo walls that lean against each other[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nYou'll never see them in quite the same way again[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThese miles of dry stone walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThat hold, in ploughed brown fields, these kingly halls[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe dead of centuries in hills of sand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe stones that bind them[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAre proud as what lies behind them[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]B7[/ch]   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd varied as the counties in this curious land[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nEm\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]","chords":["Em","G","C","D","Bm","Am","B7","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}