E|------2---------2-| B|------3-----3-----| G|------2-------2---| D|--0---0-----------| A|----------0-------| E|------------------| That could be very wrong, if anyone has anything better let me know! I believe it is also this or something similar that is played for most of the song. In some places it can be heard clearly-(ish) and sounds more like this: E|------2---------2-| B|------3-------3---| G|------2-----2-----| D|--0---0-----------| A|----------0-------| E|------------------| Also, Stan seems to use an odd tuning for most of his songs, but I could not tell if this was one of them, I tried to use it but couldn't make it work. His tuning is a variation of DADGAD and can be decently replicated as such. From what I can tell his exact tuning is: DADGBD. Anyway, with due apologies to my fellow Albertans and Ontarians, but no apologies to Morris Dancers, here is my rendition of The Idiot by Stan Rogers. [Intro] (D Chord) E|----------------2-|----------2--------| B|--------------3---|----------3--------| G|------------2-----|----------2--------| D|--0---0---0-------|--0---0---0--------| A|------------------|-------------------| E|------------------|-------------------| [Verse] D A Bm G Bm I often take these night shift walks when the foreman's not around. G D A I turn my back on the cooling stacks and make for open ground. D A Bm G Bm Far out beyond the tank farm fence where the gas flare makes no sound, G D A G D I forget the stink and I always think back to that Eastern town. [Verse] D A Bm G Bm I remember back six years ago, this Western life I chose. G D A And every day, the news would say some factory's going to close. D A Bm G Bm Well, I could have stayed to take the Dole, but I'm not one of those. G D A G D I take nothing free, and that makes me an idiot, I suppose. [Chorus] G D D/A A So I bid farewell to the Eastern town I never more will see; G D A But work I must so I eat this dust and breathe refinery. D A Bm G Bm Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams and I don't like cowboy clothes; G D A D But I like being free and that makes me an idiot I suppose. [Break] (same as verse with a fiddle playing the melody) D A Bm G Bm G D A D A Bm G Bm G D A D [Verse] D Bm G Bm So come all you fine young 'fellers who've been beaten to the ground. G D A This western life's no paradise, but it's better than lying down. D A Bm G Bm Oh, the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green, and the hills are dirty brown, G D A D But the government Dole will rot your soul back there in your home town. [Chorus] G D D/A A So bid farewell to the Eastern town you never more will see. G D A There's self-respect and a steady cheque in this refinery. D A Bm G Bm You will miss the green and the woods and streams and the dust will fill your nose. G D A D But you'll be free, and just like me, an idiot, I suppose
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