08 Village Life
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Village Life
Another free-tempo song with me on guitar and Mary Davies on piano. I added a scored bowed-bass later. I wrote this at Mrauk-U, in the middle of nowhere in north-west Myanmar, after we'd got back from a long jeep/boat trip to a Chin village in the Hills, far from any of the services we take for granted.
Village days,
E
Pigs and chickens kicking dust up in the yard
A
Don’t believe that life is easy life is hard
Am2 E
In many ways, Village days
B7 E
Riverside
E
You can watch the sails unfurling in the breeze
A
Or the raftsmen on the bamboo take their ease
Am2 E
On the ride, riverside
B7 E
You can watch the water running on a pleasant winter’s day
C#m G#m F#m E
But when the floods are coming they can wash your dreams away
C#m G#m F#m B
Plant your rice
Watch it flourish in a burst of emerald green
All the bounty of the earth is plainly seen
Neath azure skies above your rice
Keep your grin
When the burning heat of summer takes its toll
Turn the versdant fields of plenty to dust bowl
Take it on the chin and keep your grin
Village life
Though it’s kind of hard to make it through some days
Still you keep a cheery smile upon your face
Through the strife of village life