Macdonnell on the Heights 4/4 Stan Rogers From Fresh Water Standard Tuning / No Capo / Travis Picking Submitted by Ken Lee Intro: Two Bars of C (Cross picking) [email protected] / C /Am Too / thin the line that / charged the Heights, and F / C Scrambled in the / clay. / C / Am Too / thin the Eastern / Township Scot / F / G Who / showed them all the / way, and / C / Am Per - / haps had you not / fallen, / F / Am You might / be what Brock be - / came, / C / F / C / / But not / one in ten / thousand knows your / name. / / / C / Am To / say the name, Mac - / donnell, / F / C It would / bring no bugle / call, / C / Am But the / Redcoats stayed be - / side you, / F / G When they / saw the General / fall. / C / Am Twas Mac- / donnell raised the / banner then, and F / Am Set the Heights a - / flame, / C / F / C / / But not / one in ten / thousand knows your /name. / / Chorus: / G / You / brought the field all / standing / F / C With your / courage and your / luck, / C / Am But un- / known to most, you're / lying there / F / G Be - / side old General / Brock. / C / Am So you know / what it is to / scale the Heights, and F / Am Fall just short of / fame, and / C / F / C / / Have not / one in ten / thousand know your / name. / / Break: Chorus instrumental / C / Am At / Queenston now, the / General, / F / C On his / tower stands a - / lone, and / C / Am There's / lichen on "Mac - / donnell," / F / G Carved up - / on that weathered / stone. / C / Am In a / corner of the / monument, / F / Am To / glory you could / claim, / C / F / C But not / one in ten / thousand knows your / name. / G / You / brought the field all / standing, / F / C With your / courage and your / luck, / C / Am But un- / known to most, you're / lying there, / F / G Be - / side old General / Brock. / C / Am So you know / what it is to / scale the Heights, and F / Am Fall just short of / fame, and / C / F / C / / Have not / one in ten / thousand know your / name. / / Repeat Chorus:, then last three lines instrumental
