Misc Traditional – Sussex Drinking Song (Guitar)

G                      C     Am
On Sussex Downs, where I was bred,

   D                  C         G
In rains where autumn lanes are red,

G                  C      Am
Where Aran tumbles in his bed

    D              C    G
And dusty gales go by.

G                       C
Where branches, bare on vert and glen

    Am              D
And merry hills are whitening then;

  G            D               Em
I drink strong ale with gentle-men,

      C      D         Em
Which no one can deny, deny,

      C      D         G
Which no one can deny, deny.

G                C     Am
In cold November off I go,

    D             G
And turn my face against the snow;

                         C      Am
And watch the wind where ere it blow,

  D                 G
Because my heart is high.

G                         C
'Till I settle me down in Steyning to sing

       Am         C        D
Of the girls I've met in my wandering;

    G     D             Em
And all I mean to do in Spring

      C      D         Em
Which no one can deny, deny,

      C      D         G
Which no one can deny, deny.

     G                 C        Am
'Tho times be hard and fortunes tough,

    D                    G
The ways be foul and the weather rough;

                      C       Am
We are of stout south country stock

    D                  Am      G
Who cannot have strong ale enough

G                       C
From Crowborough Top to Ditchling Down,

     Am      C       D
From Hurstpierpoint to Arundel town,

    G         C         D      Em
The girls are fine, the ale is brown;

      C      D         Em
Which no one can deny, deny,

      C      D         G
Which no one can deny, deny.