Misc Traditional – The Three-Foot Rule (Guitar)

    D                              A7
When I was bound apprentice, and I learned to use my hands

                               D
Folk never talked of measures that came from other lands

                 D7               G
Now I'm a British Workman, and too old to go to school;

  D                                       A7                          D
So whether the chisel or file I hold, I'll stick to my three-foot rule.

D                            A7
Some talk of millimetres, and some of kilograms

                          D
And some of decilitres, to measure beer and drams;

                 D7           G
But I'm a British Workman, too old to go to school,

  D                                               A7                          D
By pounds I'll eat, by quarts I'll drink, and I'll stick to my three-foot rule.

D                          A7
A party of astronomers went measuring the earth,

                             D
And forty million metres they took to be its girth;

                    D7                 G
Five hundred million inches, though, go through from pole to pole;

        D                                        A7                       D
So let's stick to inches, feet and yards, and the good old three-foot rule.

D                             A7
The Great Egyptian Pyramid’s a thousand yards about,

                                    D
And when the masons finished it they raised a mighty shout,

                     D7                 G
The man who built that building well I’m bound he was no fool,

   D                                  A7                     D
For now it Is proved beyond a doubt he used a three-foot rule.

D                                     A7
Here’s health to every learned man who goes by common sense,

                                   D
And would not plague the workman on any vain pretense,

                      D7                 G
But as for those phil - anthropists who’d send us back to school,

    D                                        A7                        D
Well damn their eyes if they ever tries to put down the three-foot rule.