Another Country chords by Redgum
Intro 1
Am
G
F
G
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G
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Verse 1
Dm
A
C
Foundryman foundryman and rigger
I serve my craft with skill and pride
Am
F
The furnaces barked at the sun
G
The well has sparked the night
Am
G
C
Merchantmen and frigates
We moulded ribs and shaped the keels
Am
F
We forged a nation's fleets
G
From white -hot rivers of tungsten steel
G#aug
E
F
The shipyard's lying idle now
G
Am
C
And rust flakes off the cranes
Dm
C
Seagulls echo through empty docks
G
G#aug
But a silent power remains
E
F
A cold north wind tugs at my coat
G
Am
C
As I walk these oily sands
Dm
C
There's a life upon
G
C
a punch card clock
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Dm
And dust upon my hands
C
My brother played the ponies,
breaker by his trade,
Am
F
Sailed for Cairo in forty -one,
G
Am
G
the Third Light Horse Brigade.
C
Rode the winds of fortune,
cast his life in a two -up game.
Am
F
I carry his coins, they were in his hat
G
G#aug
From Tobruk to El Alamein
Eaug
F
There's dust upon his photograph
G
Am
C
A young face bold and tan
Dm
C
He told me always judge the odds
G
That sacrifice demands
G#aug
E
F
His bones lie out at Sandgate,
G
Am
where the waste creeks meet the sea
C
Dm
C
G
There's rusted cars and salvage yards
C
F
where Brummies once ran free
Dm
F
Am
G
Am
G
F
G
F
Em
Am
G
Dm
Am
G
I'm
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G
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Em
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Am
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C
Am
Dm
C
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Fsus2
Dm
C
The Past is another country,
the maps are torn and frayed
Am
F
Steel is cast for Wall Street now,
G
and ships are foreign made
Am
G
C
Boys grow lean and restless,
F
C
see the anger in their eyes
Am
F
I watch from my veranda,
G
see the gulf grow deep and wide
G#aug
Eaug
F
Politicians crow with promises,
G
Am
C
in a year it's blood from stone
Dm
C
This dusty town grows sad and weary,
G
still I call it home
G#aug
Eaug
F
There's an old
man combing memories
G
Am
C
and shells upon a beach
Dm
C
G
In his shadow walks a dreamer
C
F
just beyond his reach
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Another Country
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