The Ballad Of Stewart Hodder Chords & Lyrics - Misc Your Songs - North Country Express

[CHORUS]
[G]Why have you come here to [C]France, Vera Flannigan
[G]What is it, maid, that you're hoping to [D]find?
An [G]old family story
Of [C]long-ago glory
Or per - [G]haps a young [C]soldier who [D]weighs on your [Em]mind

[VERSE 1]
It's a [Em]little of both, kind [Am]sir, don't you [Em]see
I [Em]seek a young Private who [Am]wore blue put - [Em]tees
He [Em]came from my village - [Am]in Newfound - [Em]land
And he [Em]was my great-[Am]uncle, now do [D]you under - [Em]stand

[CHORUS]
[G]Why have you come here to [C]France, Vera Flannigan
[G]What is it, maid, that you're hoping to [D]find?
An [G]old family story
Of [C]long-ago glory
Or per - [G]haps a young [C]soldier who [D]weighs on your [Em]mind

[VERSE 2]
He [Em]died in this field near [Am]Monchy-le -[Em]Preux
And [Em]these many years, sir, [Am]nobody [Em]knew
That he [Em]lies where he fell, undis - [Am]covered, un - [Em]named
Where the [Em]mud and the [Am]blood give no [D]marker or [Em]fame

[CHORUS]
[G]Why have you come here to [C]France, Vera Flannigan
[G]What is it, maid, that you're hoping to [D]find?
An [G]old family story
Of [C]long-ago glory
Or per - [G]haps a young [C]soldier who [D]weighs on your [Em]mind

[VERSE 3]
His [Em]name's in the bronze at [Am]Beaumont-Ha - [Em]mel
With [Em]those of his comrades, the [Am]others who [Em]fell
'Neath the [Em]caribou guarding the [Am]trenches and [Em]sand
[Em]Facing to battle, for - [Am]ever it [Em]stands

[CHORUS]
[G]Why have you come here to [C]France, Vera Flannigan
[G]What is it, maid, that you're hoping to [D]find?
An [G]old family story
Of [C]long-ago glory
Or per - [G]haps a young [C]soldier who [D]weighs on your [Em]mind

[VERSE 4]
Now the [Em]love of a family that [Am]he never [Em]knew
I [Em]bring with me here, sir, to [Am]bid sad a - [Em]dieu
And [Em]stand in Remembrance, 'though [Am]we never [Em]met
[G]Young Stewart [C]Hodder - [D]LEST WE FOR - [Em]GET

[CHORUS]
I k[G]now why you came here to [C]France, Vera Flannigan
A [G]hundred years gone, just a passage of [D]time
Your [G]uncle's brave story, of [C]death, war and glory
The [G]chapter's now [C]closed
And you [D]have peace of [G]mind.