Seth Lakeman - Fight For Favour Ukulele

Fight for favour
By Seth Lakeman

20 June 2009


4/4 time
Key of A#
Played with capo at 3rd fret in G

Verse 

F                        F        G
I`ll sing you a song how first we began, 
F                                F           
Our toils and our troubles our plot and our plan. 
F, C/E, C6, Dm7 (one stroke each)
Dm7                             G       
We left our fair country, our friends and our homes, 
F, C/E, C6, Dm7
Dm7 (hammer on G strings).....G 
Across to the deserts wild and the mountains to roll. 

We travelled three weeks `til we came to the platt. 
Set up our camp ahead of the pack, 
In just a moment low we heard a faint yell, 
Five hundred cavalry they were riding from hell. 

Chorus

F     F       G  Am7
We fight for favour, 
F       F         G
we will fight for pride, 
F           F       G     Am7
And oh we will fight for favour, 
F              G (hammer on F string)
We will fight `til they die. 

They made a bold dash came near to our train, 
Bullets fell around like showers of rain, 
With long rifles at hand we fed them hot lead 
`Til many a brave warrior around us lay dead, 

Chr. 

We travel by day but guard in the night, 
Across all those mountains so high in their might, 
Now in a green valley we live beside a clear old stream, 
Our journey now ended in the land of our dreams, 

Chr.