Empty handed
G - C - G -
D (4x)
G C G D
1. Again the rains are late
this year, again the fields are dry
G - C - G - D
and
crops are dead,
G C G D G - C - G - D
today
the banks refused to give me an extension on the loan.
Em C
Em D
No money in my pocket for the
fare,
Em C G D G
no
friendly face with me my disappointment to share,
Am C
D G
- C - G - D
in
failure and in poverty you always feel alone.
G C
G
D
It's not the setting sun that
makes my face look red,
G
C
G D
you
rich will never understand it.
G C G
D
And if I walk as if my shoes
were made of lead,
Em C
D
G
it's the shame of coming back home
empty handed.
+ G - C - G
- D
(2x)
G C G D
2. My arms and back are strong, and I have worked
all hours
G - C - G - D
that
the good Lord gave,
G
C G D G
- C - G - D
but for my efforts
I have had so very little in return.
Em C Em D
This soil is too unyielding to
the plough,
Em C G
D G
too
hard to soften with the sweat that trickles from my brow,
Am C D G - C - G - D
the
crop so weak that there is almost nothing left to burn.
+ CHORUS + G - C - G - D (2x)
G C G D
3. My savings went to buy this
land, but all it's good for
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is to
bury me,
G
C G D G - C - G - D
unless
I find a way to make it pay that could be very soon.
Em C Em D
The future that I dreamed as a
young man,
Em C G D G
is
withered like the crops beneath the unrelenting sun,
Am C D
G -
C - G - D
the very
one that makes this such a lovely afternoon.
+ CHORUS + G - C - G - D (2x)
G C G D
4. So what would happen, if I
just went right on walking
G - C - G - D
till
I disappeared ?
G
C G D
G - C - G - D
And would they miss me, if I had
a mind the countryside to roam ?
Em C Em D
They followed me with hopes of
Em C G
D G
the
one thing I can't do right now is look them in the eyes,
Am C
D
G - C - G - D
I wish this road would swallow
me and never take me home.
+ CHORUS + G - C - G - D + CHORUS + G - C - G - D
G C - G - D G - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
+ It’s not the setting sun. (3x)
+ It’s not the setting sun !
(orig. = capo 3rd) (George Papavgeris)