G                                C
 Come see pioneers starving on trout
         Em
Meet the drunkards of spirit,
    D         G
of soil, of stout
    G
But old silent fires
                    C
shall someday bathe all
  Em                   D
A cider ferments in us all

Final call!
G
 Hear the prophets
                      C
whose days have gone dim
        Em
And for all royal silver,
      D              G
she still won’t wed him
          G 
Hear the bastards,
                   C
yes among us, they go 
Em
All flaunting freedoms
     D        G
so scarcely known


G  C  Em  D
G       D  G      C
 How I see, merrily,
G        D          C
 The unmasking of liberty
G        D    G      C
 As she bows to misery,
G
 But her open hands,
C Em             D
    The joy and dance
G
 And this pattern
                   C
across our great quilt,
Em              D
  for ages to span

G                                C
 You’re a traveller packing for years
Em                  D          G
Armour of rage in a shower of tears
         G 
And you never could see
                        C
that you were wild and loose
       Em
‘Til a baby blue soldier
    D
forbid you to choose
              G
Now you cry, “Off with these systems
                    C
And off with these laws!
Em
Bring on the seasons,
    D
tradition, and song!
     G
The patterns and cycles!
                C
We, hitchers of stars,
       Em
shall reel in adventure
     D
To shatter these boards
                   G     C  Em  D
To march from these wars


G  C  Em  D

G       D  G      C
 How I see, merrily,
G        D          C
 The unmasking of liberty
G        D    G      C
 As she bows to misery,
G
 But her open hands,
C Em             D
    The joy and dance
G
 And this pattern
                   C
across our great quilt,
Em              D
  for ages to span

G                C
 But her open hands,
Em             D
  the joy and dance
G
 And this pattern
                   C
across our great quilt
Em              D
  For ages to span