SOD ALL
Jez Lowe

on THE PARISH NOTICES 1998

Fingerpick, alternating bass and arepeggio on treble strings

INTRO (begin count on beat 3)
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|    G / |Em/ C / |G / / / |Em/ D / |G / / / |

G                                    Em
Martin, his dad, made a tune for the lad
   C                          G
To soothe the young fellow to sleep
   G                      Em
It came to him out of the blue or the stout
     C                   G
In a bar far away in the week
Am                                Em
John Shandley said, "God, sure it reeks of the sod
     Am                  Bm
That old sod of Sligo or Clare."
       C                         G
And he talked about fathers, and Spanish Armadas
          Am                          D
"Has that boy of yours got your black hair?"
    C                           G
And Martin said, "You've got me there!"

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|G / / / |

Mary, his mother, at the end of her tether
Aid, "Lullabies don't mean a thing to you
There werer times when Imagine or
Stand By Your Man
Would knock you out soon as I'd sing to you.
Now you've nothing but scorn for my Bonny At Morn
I might as well whistle a jig.
I've sung it from Abba to bloody Lloyd Webber
And you're still squealing like a stuck pig.
The stronger the sod, the deeper you dig."

CHORUS
G                                 Em
"Sod all their tongues with their rights and their wrongs
C                           D
Sod all their speeches of unmarried leeches
C                               Em
There's sod all in handouts of welfare-state pay
    C                          G
And you've been a right little sod all day."

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|    G / |Em/ C / |G / / / |

"Your father will never be daddy to you
And never whatever to me.
And maybe one day you will follow his way
Seduced byt the diddle-dee
The dark was his light, like yours is tonigyt
His music it wooed me and licked me.
It stuck to the bone, like moss to a stone
But he rolled away soon as you kicked me.
Oh, the charm of his blarney sure tricked me."

CHORUS 2X

OUTRO

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|    G / |Em/ C / |C / G / |G/ /    | End on second beat of last bar

--
Jez Lowe- vocals, guitar
Billy Surgeoner- keyboards
Jez Luton- double bass
Judy Dinning- vocals
Rob Kay- melodeon

Copyright Lowe Life Music

source: Chris Ashley

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