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Ballad of Copper Junction (A Journeyman's Lament) by Jeffrey Foucault
Ballad of Copper Junction (A Journeyman's Lament)
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
[Intro]
D F D F D F D
[Verse 1]
My father laid the trees down
G D
He broke them with his hands
G
Last year he died and left me nothing
D G
But this frame I fill
A union card
F D
And a pair of workman's hands
[Verse 2]
And I was brought up in the north of here
G
In Copper Junction town
D
Where there ain't no longer
G
Any copper in the ground
D
Just the reservation land
G
Empty logging towns
Paper mills
F D
And drawers of hand me downs
[Verse 3]
G
In 1964, I was seventeen years old
D
I got caught up in the draft
G
I did like I was told
D
And spent a pair of too long years
G
Too young to be so old
D
Well, it don't take too much sense
G
Just to come in from the cold
D G
Guess I never did
D
I guess I never did
[Verse 4]
Back home it was the bottle
G
Back to work with my old man
D
But we didn't get on so good
G
And it wasn't like we planned
D
And the last I saw of him
G
So drunk he couldn't stand
F D
And that wagon's rolling empty
[Verse 5]
So I got myself cleaned up
G
I was married for a while
D
But that ring just kept on falling off
G
And sometimes I wonder why
D
But now it's years ago and faded
From whiskey and from rye
G F D
And I wonder if it matters
[Instrumental]
D
[Verse 6]
My father laid the trees down
G
He broke them with his hands
D
And now I'm just like him
G
I got nowhere left to stand
D
And that wagon's rolling empty
And I've got nothing but the frame I fill
G
A union card
F D
And a pair of workman's hands
[Outro]
D
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