EG#mAE
There's a painting of my grandfather, on my mothers side
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in the hallway of our homestaed, in a special place of pride
EG#mAE
with his bulldogs and kanakas, back in eighteen nighty three
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in a linen suit and a panama, they say he looked like me.
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and the story goes he came out, to make a brand new start
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in an effort to forget, a sad affair of the heart
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so with these romantic notions, to the colonies he came
AEF#mBE
where he settled in the tropics and made his fortune growing cane.
Chorus:
EE
Well let the canefields burn, let the flames rise
EAE
let the politicians and the bankers in the city look up
EAE
in wonder at the glow at in the sky.
E
let the canefield burn, let me feel no pain
AEBE
when I drown my soul in whisky, and dance in the flames.
EG#mAE
There's a photo of my parents, taken in between the wars
F#mG#mAB
in London, Rome or Paris, I don't know for shure
EG#mAE
but it hangs there in the hallway and there's one for every year
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fortunes made, and fortunes paid, for champagne souveniers.
Chorus:....let the canefields burn....
C#mE
And they say they're gonna take this all away from me
C#mE
the cars the cane the homestead, all my family history
C#mEA
well tomorrow when the bankers come, to settle all their claims
EBE add9
let the auctioneer open...with a price for charred remains!
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