Kaatskill Serenade

[Chorus]
C              F
Where are the men
G                       C
 that I used to sport with?
             F
What has become
G                  C
  of my beautiful town?
C               F
Wolf, my old friend
G                   C
Even you don't know me
C                 F
This must be the end
G                     C
My house is tumbled down
 
[Verse 1]
Am                 G    F
 My land it was rich,  but I wouldn't work it
Am                  G           F
I guess I made a shrew of my wife
Am                 G                             F
My duty clear, I could always find some way to shirk it
Am                  G                 F
I dreamed away the best years of my life
 
Am                  G                             F
Seems like only this morning, I went up into the mountain
Am                 G               F
No word of warning, just her usual curse
Am                  G                        F
I hated the house, with all her nagging and shouting
Am                   G                      F
But to be in this strange world was a thousand times worse
 
[Chorus]
C              F
Where are the men
G                     C
that I used to sport with?
C            F
What has become
G                 C
of my beautiful town?
 
C              F
Wolf, my own friend
G               C
Even you don't know me
C                  F
This must be the end
G                    F
My house is tumbled down
 
[Verse 2]
Am                 G                        F
He called me by name, he bought me that cheaply
Am                 G                         F
He called me by name, I didn't know what to think
Am                   G                        F
I watched their loud games, and oh, I drink deeply
Am                  G                 F
Though no-one had ever asked me to drink
 
Am                          G                            F
And you know that stolen liquor, it was sweeter than whiskey
Am               G                         F
Many times quicker, just to put me to sleep
Am                      G                  F
That drinking with strangers can be very risky
Am                 G                        F
My sleep it was long, it was twenty years deep
 
[Chorus]
C              F
Where are the men
G                      C
that I used to sport with?
C            F
What has become
G                 C
of my beautiful town?
 
C                F
Wolf, my own friend
G                F
Even you don't know me
C                F
This must be the end
G                   C
My house is tumbled down