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The New Farming Scene

from The New Farming Scene by Southern Tenant Folk Union

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The New Farming Scene (written by Roddy Neilson & Pat McGarvey)

Intro instrumental w/melody - | C | C | Gm | Gm | Gm | Bb | C | C | (x 2)

C Bb
Surrounded by barbed wire, machine gun nests
F C
Our forty acres, of scratch is the best
C Gm
We seed oats and grow barley, there’s corn, still on the cob
F Bb C
There’s men, around here with guns, needing a job
C Bb
You’ll never go hungry, if you, live on a farm
F C
Unless the tide washes over the, walls and the yard
C Gm
Blood is often spilt, over here, or over there
F Bb C
It trickles on down to the green grass so fair

Am G C
We’ve peace and quiet
Gm F C
A land so very serene
F G C (stop)
No-one here is divided at all
Gm F C | C | C | Gm | Bb | C | C | C | C |
Living together in the new farming scene - short chorus tag -

Oh it’s quieter in winter, it’s colder in the spring
Shoots of recovery, they’re muted again
With lots of farms scattered, through the valleys and the dales
Our land has towers of power made of hay bales
(chorus lyrics sung over verse as BV)
Our girls are so pretty, so healthy so young
The clean air we’re breathing, calms everyone
The house, that we live in, it’s done, up in some style
People, need, to relax, once in a while

Intro instrumental - same (x 2) / Fiddle solo over Chorus chords

Night closes around us, it’s darkness complete
But don’t rock the boat round, if you like to eat
Many efforts were made, to change, oh long ago
But you have to pick from the lead or the gold
Once a daydream is broken, there’s nothing like pain
To remind you you’re human, & start out again
Soon we’ll be seven, and then, we’ll just be five
And five’s one too many when you’re on the outside

Last Chorus – repeat/tag last line of chorus twice

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from The New Farming Scene, released January 6, 2010

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Southern Tenant Folk Union Edinburgh, UK

Formed by Belfast born five-string banjo player Pat McGarvey in 2006 and taking their name from the groundbreaking multi- racial union of sharecroppers and non-landowning tenant farmers founded in Arkansas in the 1930’s (the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union), the Edinburgh-based Southern Tenant Folk Union are now one of the most highly rated folk and bluegrass outfits in the UK today. ... more

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