Over the hills and far away (1996)
G C G D
1. Here's forty shillings on the drum for those who'll volunteer to come,
G C Am D
to
'list and fight the foe today, over the hills and far away.
G C G D
O'er the hills and o'er the main, through Flanders,
Portugal and Spain.
G C Am D
King George commands and we obey, over the hills and far away.
G C G D
2. When duty calls me I must go to stand and face another foe,
G C Am D
but
part of me will always stray over the hills and far away.
+ CHORUS + instrumental = verse
2
G C - G D
3. If I should fall to rise no more, as many comrades did before,
G C Am D
then
ask the fifes and drums to play over the hills and far away.
+ CHORUS
G C - G D
4. Then fall in lads behind the drum, with colours blazing like the sun.
G C Am
D
along
the road to come-what may, over the hills and far away.
+ CHORUS (3x) ....
(John Tams, from “Sharpe”)