
Date of issue: 18.11.2007
Record label: Hands on
Song language: English
Cousin Jack |
This land is bar-ren and bro-ken |
Scarred like the face of the moon |
Our tongue is no lon-ger spo-ken |
And the Towns all a-round face ruin |
Will there be work in New Bruns-wick? |
Will I find gold in the Cape? |
If I tunnel way down to Australia |
Oh will I ever escape |
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground |
That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound |
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein |
Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin |
Run in your blood and under your skin |
I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back |
Oh, follow me down cousin Jack |
The soil was to poor to make Eden |
Granite and sea left no choice |
Though visions of heaven sustained us |
When John Wesley gave us a voice |
Did Joseph once come to St Michaels Mount |
Two thousand years pass in a dream |
When you’re working your way in the darkness |
Deep in the heart of the seam |
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground |
That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound |
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein |
Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin |
Run in your blood and under your skin |
I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back |
Oh follow me down cousin Jack |
I dream of a bridge on the Tamar |
It opens us up to the East |
And the English they live in our houses |
The Spanish fish in these seas |
Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground |
That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound |
So look for me under the lode and inside the vein |
Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin |
Run in your blood and under your skin |
I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back |
Oh follow me down cousin Jack |
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