THE DRY CARDRONA             James K. Baxter

Melody line:
  v:                ch:               v:
e|2-2-0-20|--------|------2-|2-0-----|5-5-5-3-|2-0-----|--------|
B|--------|3-------|3--23---|--------|--------|---3----|--------|
G|--------|-2--2---|--------|--------|--------|----0--0|2-2-2-2-|
D|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|------4-|--------|

        ch:                
e|------02|3-0-2---|--------|--------||
B|--023---|------3-|2-3-----|--------||
G|2-------|--------|--------|--------||
D|--------|--------|--------|--------||


D     A              D
I can tell where the cherries grow,
      Bm            A
 Ch:  By the dry Cardrona
D                         G
Where I picked them long ago,
     A                D
On a day when I was sober

 (repeat for Ch,e.g.
     G        D     A D
On a day when I was sober.)


My father wore a Parson's coat...
He kept a tally of the sheep and the goats,
But I was never sober.


My mother sewed her Sunday skirts...
They say she died of a broken heart
'Cause I was never sober.


I loved a young miss, and only one...
But she up anb married the Banker's son,
'Cause I was never sober.


I courted a widow of 'Forty-nine...
She owned a stable and a Scheelite mine,
But I was never sober.


Oh lay my bones till the judgement crack...
A blanket swag upon my back,
To pillow me drunk or sober.


All rivers run to a rimless grave, even the wild Cardrona,
But never a one will come my way
Till I am stone cold sober.


Repeat V.1