Nic Jones – Farewell To The Gold chords

[Verse]
C           G            Am          EmShotover River, your gold it is waning 
F            G            C         GIt's weeks since the color I've seen. 
C           G            Am           EmBut it's no use just sitting and Lady Luck blaming 
F            G               AmI'll pack up and make the break clean. 

[Chorus]
G                           C             GFarewell to the gold that never I found, 
Am                        F                     G     Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere abound; 
C           G            Am       EmFor it's only when dreaming that I see you gleaming 
 F            G            C                    Down in the dark deep underground. 

[Verse]
C           G            Am       EmIt's nearly two years since I left my old mother 
F            G            C         GFor adventure and gold by the pound. 
C           G            Am       EmWith Jimmy the prospector, he was another, 
F            G               AmFor the hills of Otago was bound. 

C           G            Am       EmWell we worked the Cardrona's dry valley all over 
F            G            C         GOld Jimmy Williams and me. 
C           G            Am       EmThey were panning good dirt on the winding Shotover 
F            G               AmSo we drifted down there just to see. 

C           G            Am       EmWe sluiced and we cradled for day after day 
F            G            C         GBarely making enough to get by; 
C           G            Am       Em'Til a terrible flood swept poor Jimmy away 
F            G               AmDuring six stormy days in July