Alyandabu chords by Ted Egan

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Verse 1
C 
Straight out of a Drysdale
canvas you walked
Down Vestey's Hill
G 
C 
Across the government gardens
G 
Right on into town
D 
G 
Straight as a spear shaft
Wide -brimmed hat
Tall and proud and black
It's one of the many roads
C 
that you've walked down
F 
And I wonder what you're thinking about
C 
As you walk on through your life
F 
Are you thinking about the Irishman
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D 
G 
who took you as his wife?
C 
Am 
Or the kids you bore, the things you saw,
D 
Dm 
the hard times you were
G 
made to endure?
C 
G 
C 
It's your story, ull and aboo
G 
C 
When you were young you
saw your tribe wiped out,
all your people killed
Am 
C 
Poison,
G 
flour and bullets were their fate
But you survived and in your life
a laughing Irish man arrived
C 
You both shared a life that you know hate
Oh, you found the famous Lucy Mine,
worked it with your man
Raised five kids,
G 
but then disaster came
McGuinness died,
officials tried to take your children from you
They wanted both your family
C 
and your claim
F 
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F 
And I wonder what you're thinking about
C 
As you walk on through your life
F 
Are you thinking about the Irishman
D 
G 
Who took you as his wife?
C 
Am 
Or the kids you bore, the things you saw
Dm 
The hard times you were made to endure
G 
C 
What's your story?
G 
C 
Aliyah daboo
Into Darwin town you came
Fightin' for your rights,
battlin' to keep your
G 
family by your side
Today you'd be so fond of them,
descendants by the score
C 
You taught them all about a thing called pride
If you were white,
they'd call you a pioneer,
name a suburb after you
You're forgotten by the
G 
ones who took your land
But those who knew you knew your worth
and cherished private thoughts
And memories strangers
C 
wouldn't understand
F 
And I wonder what you're thinking about
as you walk on through your life
C 
F 
Are you thinking about the Irishman
F#dim 
D 
G 
who took you as his wife?
C 
Am 
Or the kids you bore, the things you saw
D 
Dm 
The hard times you were
G 
made to endure
C 
G 
C 
What's your story, Ali and Abu?
F 
I wonder what you're thinking about
C 
As you walk on through your life
F 
Are you thinking about the Irishman
G 
D 
G 
Who took you as his wife?
C 
Am 
Or the kids you bore, the things you saw
D 
Dm 
The hard times you were
G 
made to endure
C 
What's your story, what's your story,
G 
C 
Ali and Abu?
What's your story, what's your story,
G 
C 
Ali and Abu?