Graeme Connors

Graeme Connors - Let The Canefields Burn guitar chord

Let The Canefields Burn

By Graeme Connors

Graeme plays this tuned down half a step to D#

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E G#m A E

There's a painting of my grandfather, on my mothers side

F#m G#m A B

in the hallway of our homestaed, in a special place of pride

E G#m A E

with his bulldogs and kanakas, back in eighteen nighty three

A E F#m B E add9

in a linen suit and a panama, they say he looked like me.

E G#m A E

and the story goes he came out, to make a brand new start

F#m G#m A B

in an effort to forget, a sad affair of the heart

E G#m A E

so with these romantic notions, to the colonies he came

A E F#m B E

where he settled in the tropics and made his fortune growing cane.

Chorus:

E E

Well let the canefields burn, let the flames rise

E A E

let the politicians and the bankers in the city look up

E A E

in wonder at the glow at in the sky.

E

let the canefield burn, let me feel no pain

A E B E

when I drown my soul in whisky, and dance in the flames.

E G#m A E

There's a photo of my parents, taken in between the wars

F#m G#m A B

in London, Rome or Paris, I don't know for shure

E G#m A E

but it hangs there in the hallway and there's one for every year

A G#m F#m B E add9

fortunes made, and fortunes paid, for champagne souveniers.

Chorus:....let the canefields burn....

C#m E

And they say they're gonna take this all away from me

C#m E

the cars the cane the homestead, all my family history

C#m E A

well tomorrow when the bankers come, to settle all their claims

E B E add9

let the auctioneer open...with a price for charred remains!

Chorus:....let the canefields burn....

Worked out by Jas for private use only!

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