Song: Harvest gypsies
Artist: Boo Hewerdine
Composer: Boo Hewerdine
Album: Toy box 2
Tabbed by: DJ
6th Aug 2014
Capo: 6th fret (Will then sound in the recorded key of Ab)
Chord names and fret positions are relative to the capo:
D = xx0232 D/A = x00232
G/B = x20033 D2 = xx0230
Cadd9 = x32033 D4 = xx0233
Boo playing this song live at this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNKuMkxuVjw
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[Intro]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
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[Verse 1]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
In October we will come, a hundred and fifty thousand strong,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
When the picking's over, we'll be gone, they call us the har - vest gypsies!
[Verse 2]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
We only come be - cause we must, we are driven here by dust,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And they won't even look at us, they call us the har - vest gypsies!
[Verse 3]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And the hardest that it's ever been, I sold my blankets for gaso - line,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And it's only hunger I have seen, now I'm a har - vest gypsy!
[Break]
G Cadd9 G/B D/A D2 D D4 D D2 D
||: Oh---oh, oh, oh, oh! /___/ /___/ /___/ :|| [x3]
Cadd9 G/B D
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[Verse 4]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And there's apricots in Santa Clare, at Kern County they have apples there,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And grapes they're growing every - where, all for the har - vest gypsies!
[Verse 5]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
In a walnut grove I met a man, who lost his child be - fore San Fran',
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
We're strangers they don't un - derstand, we are the har - vest gypsies!
[Verse 6]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And the gondalas and railway lines, filled with men when it is time,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
Drawn by the orange and the lime, all the har - vest gypsies!
[Break]
G Cadd9 G/B D/A D2 D D4 D D2 D
||: Oh---oh, oh, oh, oh! /___/ /___/ /___/ :|| [x3]
Cadd9 G/B D
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[Verse 7]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
They hate it when their taxes rise, and the squatter camps that they des - pise,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
With - out us they would rot and die, without the har - vest gypsies!
[Verse 8]
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
And the Holbrook's, we were farming men, and I dream, one day, we will a - gain,
D G/B Cadd9 G/B D
To miss the soil's a curious pain, when you're a har - vest gypsy!
[Break]
G Cadd9 G/B D/A D2 D D4 D D2 D
||: Oh---oh, oh, oh, oh! /___/ /___/ /___/ :|| [x3]
Cadd9 G/B D
When you're a harvest gypsy, yeah - eah!
[Coda]
G Cadd9 G/B D/A D2 D D4 D D2 D
||: Oh---oh, oh, oh, oh! /___/ /___/ /___/ :|| [x3]
Cadd9 G/B D D
When you're a harvest gyp - sy!
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