Farewell To The Gold

C G Am Em F G C G C G Am Em Shotover River, the gold lies waiting F G C G It's years since the color I've seen C G Am Em And it's no use in sitting or Lady Luck blaming F G C I'll pack up and make the break clean G C G Farewell to the gold that never I found C C/B Am7 G Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere are bound C G Am Em For it's only when dreaming that I'll see you gleaming F G C Down in the dark deep underground C G Am Em It's nearly two years since I left my own mother F G C G For excitement and gold by the pound C G Am Em With Jimmy the prospector, Oh he was another F G C And to the hills of Otago we were bound G C G Farewell to the gold that never I found, C C/B Am7 G Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere are bound C G Am Em For it's only when dreaming that I'll see you gleaming F G C Down in the dark deep underground C G Am Em Well we worked the Cardrona's dry valley all over F G C G Old Jimmy Williams and me C G Am Em They were panning good dirt down on winding Shotover F G C So we headed down there just to see G C G Farewell to the gold that never I found, C C/B Am7 G Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere are bound C G Am Em For it's only when dreaming that I'll see you gleaming F G C Down in the dark deep underground C G Am Em We sluiced and we cradled for day after day F G C G Barely making enough to get by C G Am Em And then a terrible flood washed poor Jimmy away F G C During six stormy days in July G C G Farewell to the gold that never I found, C C/B Am7 G Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere are bound C G Am Em For it's only when dreaming that I'll see you gleaming F G C Down in the dark deep underground. G C G Farewell to the gold that never I found, C C/B Am7 G Goodbye to the nuggets that somewhere are bound C G Am Em For it's only when dreaming that I'll see you gleaming F G C Down in the dark deep underground. F G C Down in the dark deep underground.