Over The Hill To The Poorhouse Cifras

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
                          C
Oh how can it be they have driven
      D                      G
Their father so helpless and old
                           C
Oh God may their crimes be forgiven
   D                      G
To perish out here in the cold
 
                          C
Oh heaven I'm sad and I'm wearied
        D                             G
See the tears how they course down my cheek
                            C
This world is so lonely and weary
   D                       G
My heart for relief vainly seeks
 
[Chorus]
    G
I'm old I'm helpless and feeble
        D
And the days of my youth have gone by
         G                    C
And it's over the hill to the poor house
       D                     G
I must wander alone there to die
 
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[Verse 2]
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Long years since Mary was taken
   D                     G
My faithful affectionate wife
                               C
Since then I've been alone and forsaken
    D                        G
The light has died out of my life
 
                          C
Oh me on the doorstep up yonder
     D                       G
I've sit with my babes on my knee
                       C
No father was happy or fonder
     D                   G
Than I of my little ones three
 
[Chorus]
    G
I'm old I'm helpless and feeble
        D
And the days of my youth have gone by
         G                    C
And it's over the hill to the poor house
       D                     G
I must wander alone there to die
 
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[Verse 3]
                          C
The boys were so rosy and cheerful
    D                     G
And Lily would chatter so sweet
                               C
God knows how their father has loved them
    D                             G
But they've driven him out on the street
 
                                C
I gave them the place that they lived on
  D                    G
A deed to the farm and more
                                C
I gave them the house they were born in
    D                         G
And now I am turned from it's door
 
[Chorus]
    G
I'm old I'm helpless and feeble
        D
And the days of my youth have gone by
         G                    C
And it's over the hill to the poor house
       D                     G
I must wander alone there to die
 
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