Cousin Jack

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 vain,
 Where the copper the clay the arsnic 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 vain,
 Where the copper the clay the arsnic 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 vain,
 Where the copper the clay the arsnic 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.