Are You From Bevan

E Hello, stranger, how do you do? There’s something I’d like to say to you. B7 F# B7 You seem surprised I recognize, I’m no company stool but I just surmise. E You’re from the place I’m longing to be. Your smiling face seems to say to me, B7 F# B7 You’re from the Island, your land and my land, so tell me can it be? E A E B7 Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan, where those fields of stumps, they beckon to me. E A F# B7 I’m glad to see you, tell me how be you, and those friends I’m longing to see? E E7 A F# If you’re from Union Bay or Courtenay or Cumberland, any place below that Bevan second dam. E A Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan, B7 E ’Cause I’m from Bevan, too. E It was way back in 19 and 12, our gas committee was put on the shelf. B7 F# B7 First we walked out, then we were locked out, and then by a foul we were all but knocked out. E Our union miners faced guns and jail, hundreds of us were held without bail. B7 F# B7 But by August 1914 our labour they were courting, but they blacklisted me. E A E B7 Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan, where those fields of stumps, they beckon to me. E A F# B7 I’m glad to see you, tell me how be you, and those friends I’m longing to see? E E7 A F# If you’re from Union Bay or Courtenay or Cumberland, any place below that Bevan second dam. E A Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan, B7 E ’Cause I’m from Bevan, I’m from Bevan, I’m from Bevan, too.