G                    D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am                    C
He's got money in his pockets
                                    D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G                               D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G                       D
Of all the money he has made
Am                                     C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
                                       D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave

[Chorus]
G (strike)                 D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G                    D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am                    C
He's got money in his pockets
                                    D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G                               D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G                       D
Of all the money he has made
Am                                     C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
                                       D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave

[Verse]
G                             D
There was a time when we were happy
G                                 D
With the simple pleasures that we knew
Am                          C
And then one day it started raining
                               D
And a very ugly storm began to brew
G                        D
It wasn't long before we noticed
G                                    D
That the people had a fever in their eyes
Am                                          C
They were taking all the things they'd been preserving
                                            D
And going out and throwing them up into the skies

[Chorus]
G (strike)                 D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G                    D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am                    C
He's got money in his pockets
                                    D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G                               D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G                       D
Of all the money he has made
Am                                     C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
                                       D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave

[Verse]
G                      D
Once the money started moving
G                             D
The fever spread from door to door
Am                              C
And all the young girls started selling
                              D
Something they had never sold before
G                         D
The people spun around in circles
G                          D
Confusion cluttering their minds
Am                                C
Their lives were being drawn from them
                                   D
By bastards of a hundred different kinds

[Chorus]
G (strike)                 D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G                    D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am                    C
He's got money in his pockets
                                    D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G                               D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G                       D
Of all the money he has made
Am                                     C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
                                       D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave

[Verse]
G                       D
So come all ye northern cowboys
G                           D
Get back down here upon the farm
Am                         C
Leave the salt wind to the sailors
                           D
Leave the North Sea to the storm
G                         D
And one day when it's all over
G                                           D
And you're hanging up your saddles and your guns
Am                                  C
You'll look around this oil-stained country
                                       D
And you'll wish to Christ it never had begun