Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:22:29 +1000
From: Kevin Woodgate <kwoodg10@scu.edu.au>
Subject: m/misc_traditional/click_go_the_shears.tab

>    Click Go The Shears         Australian Folk Song    
>
>Transcribed by K Woodgate
>
>Easy melody Version 
>
>The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William
Clauson 
>and many other Australian Folk records.
>
>
>Intro
>  A                          D  A7   D    D                     G
>e|-0----------|------------|------------||-------------|----------|------|
>B|----3--2--0-|------------|----3--3--3-||-------------|-----3--3-|-2--0-|
>G|------------|-2--0-------|------------||-------------|---2------|------|
>D|------------|-------4----|------------||-4--4--2---0-|-4--------|------|
>A|------------|----------2-|-0----------||-------------|----------|------|
>E|------------|------------|------------||-------------|----------|------|
>1                                Out on the board the old shear-er stands
>2                     In the middle of the floor in his cane bottom chair
>3                      The colonial experience man, he is there of course
>4                                  The tar-boy is there waiting in demand
>5                 Now the shearing is all over, we've all got our cheques
>6                      There we leave him standing shouting for all hands
              
>   D                            E7                A7    D 
>e|--------------------|----------------|---------------|-------------|
>B|-----------0--------|----------------|---------------|-------------|
>G|-2-----2-------2----|----------------|---------------|-------------|
>D|--------------------|-4--0---2----2--|-4--2-----4----|-4-2---0---4-|
>A|--------------------|----------------|---------------|-------------|
>E|--------------------|----------------|---------------|-------------|
>1 Grasp-ing his shears in his thin  bo - ny hands Fixed is his gaze on
>2 Sits the boss of the board with his eyes everywhere Notes well each fleece
>3 With his shiny leggin's on just got off his horse Gazes all around him like
>4 With his blackened tar-pot, in his tarry hand Spies one old sheep
>5 So roll up your swags and its off down the track the first pub we come
to its
>6 Whilst all around him every 'shouter' stands His eye is on the keg

>   G                 A7             D        A7      D
>e|---------------|-----0--------|----------------|----------------|-------|
>B|---3---3---2---|-0-------3--2-|-0--------------|---------3---3--|-3--3--|
>G|-2-------------|--------------|---2---0--------|----------------|-------|
>D|---------------|--------------|------------4---|-2--0-----------|-------|
>A|---------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|-------|
>E|---------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|-------|
>1 a bare bel-lied yoe Glo-ry if he gets her, wont he make the ring-er go
>2 as it comes to the screen, Paying strict attention that it's taken off
clean
>3 a real connoisseur Scented soap, and brilliantine and smelling like a whore
>4 with a cut upon its back Hears what he's waiting for it's "Tar here, Jack!"
>5 there well have a spree and everyone that comes along its Have a drink
withme
>6 which now is lowering fast He works hard he drinks hard and goes to Hell
at last
>Chorus
>   A7                   D      A      D   G                       D
>e|-0----0---------|-0----------2--------|---------------|-----------------|
>B|---------3---2--|-----3-------------3-|-0---0--2---3--|-2--0---------3--|
>G|----------------|---------------------|---------------|---------2-------|
>D|----------------|---------------------|---------------|-----------------|
>A|----------------|---------------------|---------------|-----------------|
>E|----------------|---------------------|---------------|-----------------|
> Click go the shears boys click click click Wide is his blow and his hands
move
>
>   A        D                           G                        A7
>e|-----------------|----------------|--------------|-------------0------|
>B|-----------------|----------------|---3-----3--3-|-2-0-----3----------|
>G|-----------------|----------------|-2------------|--------------------|
>D|-2----2---4----4-|-4----2-0-----4-|--------------|--------------------|
>A|-----------------|----------------|--------------|--------------------|
>E|-----------------|----------------|--------------|--------------------|
>  quick The ring-er looks a-round and is beat-en by  a blow, And curs- 
>
>                                 D    A7      D
>e|-----------------|----------------|--------------||
>B|--3--2---0-------|----------------|-3---3----3---||
>G|-------------2---|-0--------------|--------------||
>D|-----------------|----4----2---0--|--------------||
>A|-----------------|----------------|--------------||
>E|-----------------|----------------|--------------||
>   -es the old snag-ger with the bare bel-lied yoe
>
>