Northern Ontario Blues

C C7 F C It's been a long time since these old feet of mine have walked into Sudbury town, C Am D G It's been a long day since I wandered away from where the Copper Cliff smokestacks look down, C C7 F C Didn't know how I felt 'bout that old nickel belt 'til my wandering ways changed my views F C Am D G C Now I'm sick of the strife of this rambling life, I got the Northern On-tario Blues C C7 F C Northern Ontario I've got the blues, how I long for your lakes and your trees, C Am D G How I'd love to recline in the shade of a pine with my old fishin' rod on my knees, C C7 F C When the shades of night fall and the whipporwills call, all my cares and my worries I lose, F C Am D G C And I know peace of mind in God's country I'll find, I got the Northern On-tario Blues C C7 F C There's a Northern railway leading out of North Bay up along the Temagami line, C Am D G Where the old coaches lurch through the poplars and birch up to Kirkland Lake and Porcu-pine C C7 F C Got to make me some calls in at Iroquois Falls, and at Timmins old friendships renew, F C Am D G C So I'm packin' my sack and I'm hittin' the track, I got the Northern On-tario Blues C C7 F C Northern Ontario I've got the blues, how I long for your lakes and your trees, C Am D G How I'd love to recline in the shade of a pine with my old fishin' rod on my knees, C C7 F C When the shades of night fall and the whipporwills call, all my cares and my worries I lose, F C Am D G C And I know peace of mind in God's country I'll find, I got the Northern On-tario Blues