Cousin Jack - Show Of Hands

This land is bar-ren and bro-ken

Scarred like the face of the moon

Our tongue is no lon-ger spo-ken

And the Towns all a-round face ruin

Will there be work in New Bruns-wick?

Will I find gold in the Cape?

If I tunnel way down to Australia

Oh will I ever escape

Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground

That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound

So look for me under the lode and inside the vein

Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin

Run in your blood and under your skin

I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back

Oh, follow me down cousin Jack

The soil was to poor to make Eden

Granite and sea left no choice

Though visions of heaven sustained us

When John Wesley gave us a voice

Did Joseph once come to St Michaels Mount

Two thousand years pass in a dream

When you’re working your way in the darkness

Deep in the heart of the seam

Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground

That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound

So look for me under the lode and inside the vein

Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin

Run in your blood and under your skin

I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back

Oh follow me down cousin Jack

I dream of a bridge on the Tamar

It opens us up to the East

And the English they live in our houses

The Spanish fish in these seas

Where there’s a mine or a hole in the ground

That’s what I’m heading for that’s where I’m bound

So look for me under the lode and inside the vein

Where the copper, the clay, the arsenic, and tin

Run in your blood and under your skin

I’ll leave the county behind I’m not coming back

Oh follow me down cousin Jack