Watching The Apples Grow Acordes

"Watching The Apples Grow"(Rogers)
From "Fogarty's Cove" (1976)
 
Stan's tribute to Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley,
its peaceful beauty contrasted with...well, Toronto.
 
Lots of passing chords easy to miss at this tempo,
and this is just what Stan plays; David Alan Eadie's
bass line would imply quite a few more of them.
 
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D
 
[Verse]
 
     D                 Bm
It's early up Ontario farm,
  D               Bm
chicken crow for day,
   G             D
I wish I grew Annapolis apples,
   D      D/C#    Bm  G        D        A    D
up above Fundy's Bay, oh...it seems so far away.
 
[Verse]
 
D                            Bm
On the ridge above Acadia's town,
        D             Bm
to the valley down below,
     G                     D
the evening shadow falls upon the families,
D                 D/C# Bm  G   D            A       D
listening to the radi--o, and watching the apples grow.
 
[Chorus]
 
 G                  D
Down on the farm, back among the family,
 G               D
away from Ontari-o,
 G               D
hear the ladies singing to the men,
 D          D/C#     Bm   G
dancing it heel-and-toe, and....
 D            A       D
watching the apples grow.
 
[Solo]
 
D Bm D Bm G D
D D/C# Bm
G D A D
 
[Verse]
 
D                     Bm      D              Bm
Ontario, y'know I've seen a place I'd rather be,
       G                   D
Your scummy lakes and the city of Toronto
      D           D/C#    Bm
don't do a damn thing for me,
G    D          A       D
I'd rather live by the sea.
 
[Verse]
 
D                               Bm       D              Bm
I've watched the Vs of geese go by, the foxfoot in the snow,
       G                   D
I've climbed the ridge of Gaspereaux Mountain
 D              D/C#     Bm   G
looking to the valley below, and....
 D            A       D
watching the apples grow!
 
[Chorus]
 
 G                     D
Down on the farm, back among the family,
  G              D
away from Ontari-o,
 G               D
hear the ladies singing to their men,
 D          D/C#     Bm   G
dancing it heel-and-toe, and....
 D            A       D
watching the apples grow!
 
[Solo]
 
D Bm D Bm G D
D D/C# Bm
G D A D
 
[Chorus]
 
I said,
 G                  D
Down on the farm, back among the family,
  G              D
away from Ontari-o,
 G               D
hear the ladies singing to the men,
 D          D/C#     Bm   G
dancing it heel-and-toe, and....
 D            A       D
watching the apples grow,
       G                  D
Said, down on the farm, back among the family,
 G               D
away from Ontari-o (a-ho!)
 G               D
hear the ladies singing to the men,
 D          D/C#     Bm   G
dancing it heel-and-toe, and....
 D            A       D
watching the apples grow.
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