Biography:
Three bands have performed and recorded under the name "Show of Hands".
1) Show Of Hands are England's most successful acoustic roots duo - Steve Knightley and Phil Beer. Their widespread appeal is based on the combined power of Steve's original songs, the quality of their vocals and harmonies, and their multi-instrumental virtuosity. Their performances feature guitars, mandocello, fiddle, cuatro, viola and concertina.
Packing venues from the smallest village hall to the Royal Albert Hall in London
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Other songs:
- Arrogance Ignorance And Greed
- Boys Of Summer
- Captains
- Company Town
- Country Life
- Cousin Jack
- Galway Farmer
- Hallows Eve
- Keep Hauling
- Longdog
- Man Of War
- Reunion Hill
- Roots
- Santiago
- Stop Copying Me
- The Blue Cockade
- The Dive
- The Gamekeeper
- The Man In Green
- The Napoli
- The Setting Mary From Dungloe
- Undertow
- Youre Mine
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
"Country Life"
by Show of Hands
Transcribed by Chris Parker
Em G C
Working in the rain cutting down wood
G D
Didn't do my little brother much good
Em G C
Lost two fingers in a chainsaw bite
G D
All he does now is drink and fight
C D G
Sells a bit of grass hots up cars
Am G C
Talks of travel never gets far
C D G
Loves his kids left his wife
Am G C
An everyday story of country life
Em G C
And the red brick cottage where I was born
G D
Is the empty shell of a holiday home
Em G C
Most of the year there's no-one there
G D
The village is dead and they don't care
C D G
Now we live on the edge of town
Am G C
Haven't been back since the pub closed down
C D G
One man's family pays the price
Am G C C
FOr another man's vision of country life
C Em C D
I'm singing oooooooh oh ooh
Em C D
oooooooh oh ooh...
Em G C
My old man is eighty four
G D
His generation won the war
Em G C
He left the farm forever when
G D
They only kept on one in ten
C D G
Landed gentry county snobs
Am G C
Where were you when they lost their jobs
C D G
No-one marched or subsidised
Am G C
To save a country way of life
Em
Silent fields empty lanes
Drifting smoke distant flames
Picture postcard hills on fire
Cattle burning in funeral pyres
C D G
Out to graze they look so sweet
Am G C
We hate the blood we want the meat
C D G
Buy me a beer I'll take my knife
Am G C C
Cut you a slice of country life
C Em C D
I'm singing oooooooh oh ooh
Em C D
oooooooh oh ooh...
Em C
If you want cheap food well here's the deal
D
Family farms are brought to heel
Em C
Hammer blows of size and scale
D
Foot and mouth the final nail
Em C
The coffin of our English dream
D
Lies out on the village green
Em C
While agri-barons CAP in hand
D
Strip this green and pleasant land
Em C
Of meadow, woodland, hedgerow, pond
D
What remains gets built upon
Em C
No trains, No jobs
D
No shops, no pubs
Em C D
What went wrong
D Em C D
Country life Country life
N/A Em
It's a little bit of country life
by Show of Hands
Transcribed by Chris Parker
Em G C
Working in the rain cutting down wood
G D
Didn't do my little brother much good
Em G C
Lost two fingers in a chainsaw bite
G D
All he does now is drink and fight
C D G
Sells a bit of grass hots up cars
Am G C
Talks of travel never gets far
C D G
Loves his kids left his wife
Am G C
An everyday story of country life
Em G C
And the red brick cottage where I was born
G D
Is the empty shell of a holiday home
Em G C
Most of the year there's no-one there
G D
The village is dead and they don't care
C D G
Now we live on the edge of town
Am G C
Haven't been back since the pub closed down
C D G
One man's family pays the price
Am G C C
FOr another man's vision of country life
C Em C D
I'm singing oooooooh oh ooh
Em C D
oooooooh oh ooh...
Em G C
My old man is eighty four
G D
His generation won the war
Em G C
He left the farm forever when
G D
They only kept on one in ten
C D G
Landed gentry county snobs
Am G C
Where were you when they lost their jobs
C D G
No-one marched or subsidised
Am G C
To save a country way of life
Em
Silent fields empty lanes
Drifting smoke distant flames
Picture postcard hills on fire
Cattle burning in funeral pyres
C D G
Out to graze they look so sweet
Am G C
We hate the blood we want the meat
C D G
Buy me a beer I'll take my knife
Am G C C
Cut you a slice of country life
C Em C D
I'm singing oooooooh oh ooh
Em C D
oooooooh oh ooh...
Em C
If you want cheap food well here's the deal
D
Family farms are brought to heel
Em C
Hammer blows of size and scale
D
Foot and mouth the final nail
Em C
The coffin of our English dream
D
Lies out on the village green
Em C
While agri-barons CAP in hand
D
Strip this green and pleasant land
Em C
Of meadow, woodland, hedgerow, pond
D
What remains gets built upon
Em C
No trains, No jobs
D
No shops, no pubs
Em C D
What went wrong
D Em C D
Country life Country life
N/A Em
It's a little bit of country life
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