{"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":2713656,"song":"Clancy Of The Overflow","artist":"Wallis & Matilda","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11527929-clancy-of-the-overflow-chords-by-wallis-matilda/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2713656?type=chord","rating":4.78624,"votes":25,"content":"Clancy of the Overflow\r\nPoem by A B \"Banjo\" Paterson\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI had written him a letter which I had, for want of better[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nKnowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust ‘on spec’, addressed as follows, ‘Clancy, of The Overflow’.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd an answer came directed in a writing unexpected,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\n(And I think the same was written with a thumb-nail dipped in tar)[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n’Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it:[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n‘Clancy’s gone to Queensland droving, and we don’t know where he are.’[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn my wild erratic fancy visions come to me of Clancy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nGone a-droving ‘down the Cooper’ where the Western drovers go;[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs the stock are slowly stringing, Clancy rides behind them singing,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor the drover’s life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the bush hath friends to meet him, and their kindly voices greet him[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn the murmur of the breezes and the river on its bars,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he sees the vision splendid of the sunlit plains extended,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd at night the wond’rous glory of the everlasting stars.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRay of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nOf the tramways and the ‘buses making hurry down the street,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nComes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAs they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFor townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I somehow rather fancy that I’d like to change with Clancy,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLike to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhile he faced the round eternal of the cash-book and the journal...[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut I doubt he’d suit the office, Clancy, of ‘The Overflow’[/tab]","plain_text":"Clancy of the Overflow\nPoem by A B \"Banjo\" Paterson\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]","chords":["A","B","G","C","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"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]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}