Kate Rusby – The Farmers Toast (Guitar)

     C
Come all jolly fellows

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Who delight in being mellow,

   C         F           G
Attend unto me don't be lazy;

       C
For a pint when it's quiet

      F           G
Come all let us try it

      C           F          G  C
For thinking can make us all crazy

      C
Come sit at my table

    F      G
As many as able

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I'll not hear one word of complaining

         C
For the tinkling of glasses

     F        G
All music surpasses

   C           F          G   C
I long to see bottles a-draining

        C
I have lawns I have bowers

        F               G
I have fields, I have flowers

         C          F      G
And the lark is my daily alarmer

    C
So jolly boys now

     F           G
Who follow the plough

   C             F           G  C
A health and success to the farmer

C
For here I am king,

F                       G
I can laugh, drink and sing,

     C          F           G
Let no one approach as a stranger;

      C
But show me the ass

       F        G
Who refuses a glass,

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I'll treat him to hay in a manger

        C
I have lawns I have bowers

        F               G
I have fields, I have flowers

         C          F      G
And the lark is my daily alarmer

    C
So jolly boys now

     F           G
Who follow the plough

   C             F           G  C
A health and success to the farmer

         C
Let the wealthy and great

         F           G
Be in splendor and state

  C          F        G
I envy them not I declare it

   C
I eat my own ham,

         F           G
My own chickens and lamb

    C            F          G   C
I shear my own sheep and I wear it

        C
I have lawns I have bowers

        F               G
I have fields, I have flowers

         C          F      G
And the lark is my daily alarmer

    C
So jolly boys now

     F           G
Who follow the plough

   C             F           G  C
A health and success to the farmer

         C
Were it not for my seeding

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You'd all have poor feeding

     C             F              G
I'm sure you would all starve without me

    C
But I am content

           F             G
When I've just paid the rent

     C           F            G    C
I'm happy when friends are around me

        C
I have lawns I have bowers

        F               G
I have fields, I have flowers

         C          F      G
And the lark is my daily alarmer

    C
So jolly boys now

     F           G
Who follow the plough

   C             F           G  C
A health and success to the farmer