G                                C 
 Come see pioneers starving on trout 
         Em 
Meet the drunkards of spirit, 
    D         G 
of soil, of stout 
    G 
But old silent fires 
                    C 
shall someday bathe all 
  Em                   D 
A cider ferments in us all 

Final call! 
G 
 Hear the prophets 
                      C 
whose days have gone dim 
        Em 
And for all royal silver, 
      D              G 
she still won’t wed him 
          G  
Hear the bastards, 
                   C 
yes among us, they go  
Em 
All flaunting freedoms 
     D        G 
so scarcely known 


G  C  Em  D 
G       D  G      C 
 How I see, merrily, 
G        D          C 
 The unmasking of liberty 
G        D    G      C 
 As she bows to misery, 
G 
 But her open hands, 
C Em             D 
    The joy and dance 
G 
 And this pattern 
                   C 
across our great quilt, 
Em              D 
  for ages to span 

G                                C 
 You’re a traveller packing for years 
Em                  D          G 
Armour of rage in a shower of tears 
         G  
And you never could see 
                        C 
that you were wild and loose 
       Em 
‘Til a baby blue soldier 
    D 
forbid you to choose 
              G 
Now you cry, “Off with these systems 
                    C 
And off with these laws! 
Em 
Bring on the seasons, 
    D 
tradition, and song! 
     G 
The patterns and cycles! 
                C 
We, hitchers of stars, 
       Em 
shall reel in adventure 
     D 
To shatter these boards 
                   G     C  Em  D 
To march from these wars 


G  C  Em  D 

G       D  G      C 
 How I see, merrily, 
G        D          C 
 The unmasking of liberty 
G        D    G      C 
 As she bows to misery, 
G 
 But her open hands, 
C Em             D 
    The joy and dance 
G 
 And this pattern 
                   C 
across our great quilt, 
Em              D 
  for ages to span 

G                C 
 But her open hands, 
Em             D 
  the joy and dance 
G 
 And this pattern 
                   C 
across our great quilt 
Em              D 
  For ages to span