Nic Jones - Farewell To The Gold Chords

[Intro]
| F5 | C/E | G11 | C/E |
| Bbadd9/F | C/E | F5 | C/E |
| Bbadd9/F | C/E | F5 | F5 |
 
[Vers 1]
F5       C/E   G11               C/E
Shotover river,  your gold it is waning
Bbadd9/F           C/E                    F5   C/E
     and it's years since the colour I've seen
F5                C/E          G11             C/E
  But it's no use just sitting    and Lady Luck blaming
Bbadd9/F          C/E             F5
  So I'll pack up    and make the break clean
 
[Chorus]
C/E                       F5      C/E
Farewell to the gold that never I found
               F5                      C/E
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
         F5        Bbadd9/F      F5        C/E
For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
     Bbadd9/F     C/E       F5
Down in the dark, deep underground
 
[Verse 2]
F5            C/E       Bbadd9/F                C/E
  It's nearly two years        since I left my old mother
Bbadd9/F              C/E         F5     C/E
    For adventure and gold by the pound
F5         C/E                  Bbadd9/F        C/E
  and with Jimmy the prospector -      he was another
Bbadd9/F      C/E            F5
   and to the hills of Otago we were bound
 
 
[Chorus]
C/E                       F5      C/E
Farewell to the gold that never I found
               F5                      C/E
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
         F5        Bbadd9/F      F5        C/E
For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
     Bbadd9/F     C/E       F5
Down in the dark, deep underground
 
 
[Interlude 1]
| Bbadd9/F | C/E | F5 | F5 |
 
 
[Verse 3]
F5        C/E           G11                    C/E
 Well, we worked the Cardrona's dry valley all over
Bbadd9/F    C/E          F5  C/E
  Old Jimmy Williams and me
F5                  C/E       G11               C/E
  They were panning good dirt    on the winding Shotover
Bbadd9/F       C/E        F5
  So we headed down there just to see
 
 
[Chorus]
C/E                       F5      C/E
Farewell to the gold that never I found
               F5                      C/E
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
         F5        Bbadd9/F      F5        C/E
For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
     Bbadd9/F     C/E       F5
Down in the dark, deep underground
 
 
[Interlude 1]
| Bbadd9/F | C/E | F5 | C/E |
 
 
[Verse 4]
F5         C/E                    G11              C/E
  Well, we sluiced and we cradled    for day after day
Bbadd9/F          C/E         F5   C/E
  Making hardly enough to get by
F5                C/E   G11           C/E
  Then a terrible flood    swept poor Jimmy away
Bbadd9/F     C/E            F5
  During six stormy days in July
 
 
[Chorus]
C/E                       F5      C/E
Farewell to the gold that never I found
               F5                      C/E
Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound
         F5        Bbadd9/F      F5        C/E
For it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming
     Bbadd9/F     C/E       F5
Down in the dark, deep underground
 
 
[Outro]
| F5 | C/E | Bbadd9/F | C/E |
| F5 | C/E | Bbadd9/F | C/E |
| F5 | C/E | G11 | C/E |
| Bbadd9/F | C/E | F5 |