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Tramps and Hawkers

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G
D

I choose not to see the things that be,

C
G

Or the miles and years that are gone.

G
C
G

I pay no heed to tomorrow's need,

Em

I'm blinded by the snow and the sun,

G
C
G

'til all I could see is my darlin' and me,

Em

Like young flowers bloomin' in spring.

G
D

Like flowers that grew, and no other I knew,

C
G

But the Rose of the San Joaquin.

2.

G
D

The gypsies would dance, while stealing a glance

C
G

As leaves might blow in the wind.

G
C
G

And the fields are worked in a sweat stained shirt,

Em

Then the workers all move on again.

G
C
G

And the tramps and hawkers, with stories wild,

Em

Beguiled a young boy's dreams,

G
D

Enticing me to leave my home,

C
G

And the Rose of the San Joaquin.

3.

G
D

I've watched the rise of light in the sky

C
G

When the sun climbs out of the sea.

G
C
G

Seen giants fall in mountains tall,

Em

Where the lumbermen cut down the trees.

G
C
G

I've played in the sand with the gulf coast wind,

Em

Fell asleep in the grass tall and green.

G
D

But nowhere I've been would I go back again,

C
G

Except to the San Joaquin.

4.

G
D

Well the road back home is hard and it's long,

C
G

And the miles, they turn into years.

G
C
G

And the tramps and hawkers in every town,

Em

By God, but it brings me to tears.

G
C
G

When I got home, I found just a flower on the mound

Em

Where it shamed the green grasses of spring.

G
D

It grew from the grave of my darlin' little girl,

C
G

The Rose of the San Joaquin.

5.

G
D

Oh see us today out on the highway,

C
G

Or asleep in the doors of the train.

G
C
G

See the gypsies dance with their damned old glances,

Em

Hear the peddlers cry out their refrain.

G
C
G

And who's gonna care, and who's gonna share

Em

All the joys, the sorrows we've seen?

G
D

Like ghosts, we roam, without friends or home,

C
G

These tramps, and hawkers and me.

G
D

Like ghosts, we roam, without friends or home,

G
C

These tramps, and hawkers and me.

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