The cutter
G - D - Em - C - D
(2x)
G D
1. When you arrived in
Canada, you walked the streets,
Em G D
out of work, out of money, prospects bleak.
G
D
Now the plane comes down from the morning
sky,
Em C D
and you touch the land where the fire won’t
die.
G D C Em
D
Oh, Johnny, you’re home, man, it’s a long road you drove us down,
G
D C - Em-D-C-D
it’s only a moment since the diesels turned.
+ G - D - Em - C - D (2x)
G D
2. Now the blade cuts clean
through the island soil,
Em G D
the years roll back and the world grows
small.
G
D
You stand on the banks in the wind and the
rain,
Em
C D
and all of your money can’t hide this pain.
G D C Em D
Oh, Johnny, you’re home, man, it’s a long road you drove us down,
G
D C - Em-D-C-D
it’s only a moment since the diesels turned.
Em
C
Em
+ The heath flame is burning bright, burning
every night,
G D
it’s winter in Ontario,
Em C Em
the wheels that turned us village kids, still carry through the heaths,
G D
but they no longer turn for
you.
G D
3. So you hold back your
mother and you bless the air,
Em G D
with the tears of the emigrant, tongue of
the Gael.
G D
And the plane takes off in a
clear blue sky,
Em C
D
life’s a long lost list of last goodbyes.
G D C Em D
Oh, Johnny, you’re home, man, it’s a long road you drove us down,
G
D C - Em-D-C-D
it’s only a moment since the diesels turned.
G D C Em D
Oh, Johnny, you’re home, man, it’s a long road you drove us down,
G
D C - C
it’s only a moment since the diesels turned.
+ G - D - Em - C - D (4x) ....
(orig. = capo 3rd) (Runrig)