Biography:
James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Calgary, Alberta, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the interment of Japanese Canadians, "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. Known for his lilting baritone voice, his driving rhythm guitar, and a keen sense of scene and narrative, Keelaghan’s music bridges traditional folk music with Canadiana.
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Other songs:
- Boom Gone Bust
- Cold Missouri Waters
- Country Faire
- Dance As You Go
- Fires Of Calais
- Get To You
- Gladys Ridge
- Glory Bound
- Harvest Train
- Henrys Downfall
- Hillcrest Mine
- Hold Your Ground
- Hope Princeton Road
- House Of Cards
- I Would I Were
- Jack Haggerty
- Kiris Piano
- Lazarus
- Leave Town
- Lost
- Mcconnvilles
- Mirabeau Bridge
- Misty Mountain
- My Blood
- My Old Man
- My Skies
- Never Gonna Stop This Train
- Next To You
- Nothing
- Number 37
- Orion
- Rebeccas Lament
- Red River Rising
- Red
- Refugee
- Ring
- Safe Home
- Sea For The Shore
- Sinatra And I
- Since You Asked
- Sing My Heart Home
- Small Rebellion
- Snap The Line Tight
- Somewhere Ahead
- Stonecutter
- Sweet Lorraine
- Sweet Thames Flow Softly
- Sweetgrass Moon
- The Boston Burglar
- The Flower Of Magherally
- The Kiss Saskatoon
- The Ones Who Made Home
- Tomorrow Is Another Day
- Turn Of The Wheel
- Whats For You
- Who Dies
- You Know Me
- Your Secret
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So I haven't been able to find any chords for this song I thought i'd submit something
for the people looking for it. Unfortunately he plays the song with a capo on the 2nd
fret which i currently don't have. This is how to play it without a capo though (at
least as close as I can hear)
Intro
A B C# D E
A
My Dad started east some time in the thirties
B C# D E
With the On-To-Ottawa men
A
He'd enough of the camps and the dole and the handouts
B C# D E
He wanted to work and to tie the loose ends
Asus2
He drifted from factory to foundry to flop-house
B C# D E
The war sorted out what mere men could not
A
In Sudbury's forges he worked like a mad-man
B C# D E
Those years lost to hunger, Dad never forgot
A
I headed west when I had turned twenty
B C# D E
When the factories and foundries had closed
A
And in my minds eye I thought I might settle
B C# D E
Out here where my father was raised and was born
Asus2
I worked as a jug-hound a rough-neck a bouncer
B C# D E
I worked where I wanted and I drew damn good pay
A
Saw no end to our luck and so we just pushed it
B C# D E
But O.P.E.C. and mortgages ate it away
D E
Now the boom's gone to bust
A D
And we're down on the dole boys
B C# D E
No treasure laid up, for family and friends
D E A E
It's pull up stakes now or pull up stakes later
B C# D E
For labouring men the road never ends
Now it seems to me somehow this nation of migrants
From father to daughter, from mother to son
Must constantly shift from the east of the west
'Til we run out of work or of places to run
Gone now the days when you lived where your parents
And your parents before them were bred and were born
We must go where the work is to live any life boys
Bend like the willow to weather the storm
Now the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
No treasure laid up, for family and friends
It's pull up stakes now or pull up stakes later
For labouring men the road never ends
Yes the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
For labouring men the road never ends
for the people looking for it. Unfortunately he plays the song with a capo on the 2nd
fret which i currently don't have. This is how to play it without a capo though (at
least as close as I can hear)
Intro
A B C# D E
A
My Dad started east some time in the thirties
B C# D E
With the On-To-Ottawa men
A
He'd enough of the camps and the dole and the handouts
B C# D E
He wanted to work and to tie the loose ends
Asus2
He drifted from factory to foundry to flop-house
B C# D E
The war sorted out what mere men could not
A
In Sudbury's forges he worked like a mad-man
B C# D E
Those years lost to hunger, Dad never forgot
A
I headed west when I had turned twenty
B C# D E
When the factories and foundries had closed
A
And in my minds eye I thought I might settle
B C# D E
Out here where my father was raised and was born
Asus2
I worked as a jug-hound a rough-neck a bouncer
B C# D E
I worked where I wanted and I drew damn good pay
A
Saw no end to our luck and so we just pushed it
B C# D E
But O.P.E.C. and mortgages ate it away
D E
Now the boom's gone to bust
A D
And we're down on the dole boys
B C# D E
No treasure laid up, for family and friends
D E A E
It's pull up stakes now or pull up stakes later
B C# D E
For labouring men the road never ends
Now it seems to me somehow this nation of migrants
From father to daughter, from mother to son
Must constantly shift from the east of the west
'Til we run out of work or of places to run
Gone now the days when you lived where your parents
And your parents before them were bred and were born
We must go where the work is to live any life boys
Bend like the willow to weather the storm
Now the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
No treasure laid up, for family and friends
It's pull up stakes now or pull up stakes later
For labouring men the road never ends
Yes the boom's gone to bust
And we're down on the dole boys
For labouring men the road never ends
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