Borrowed ground chords by
John Schumann

N/A

Key: G major

Intro 1

Verse 1
G G 
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D D 
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The wind out here's like a cross- cut saw,
C C 
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Am Am 
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the land is red and green
G G 
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D D 
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The summer sun's hanging in a pale blue sky,
Am Am 
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C C 
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the air is sharp and clean
G G 
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D D 
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There's a frozen moment in waving grain,
C C 
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Am Am 
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food for a hungry world
G G 
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D D 
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But we can't clothe ourselves with the check,
Am Am 
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C C 
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we can barely feed ourselves

Verse 2
C C 
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G G 
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At night I lie awake and worry and the
C C 
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Em Em 
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debts go round and round
G G 
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Furrows in my night time forehead,
D D 
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C C 
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And furrows on borrowed
ground
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D D 
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C C 
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Verse 3
G G 
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D D 
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There's and  old galv shed with a laughing lean,
C C 
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Am Am 
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it's kept the tractor dry
G G 
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D D 
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I remember the day when we knocked it
Am Am 
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C C 
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up with stringy bark and fencing wire
G G 
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D D 
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The earthen floor's been beaten hard,
C C 
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Am Am 
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where the rain hasn't cut a path
G G 
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D D 
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I'm frightened to look because I'm beaten
Am Am 
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C C 
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too and the mice run through the chaff

Verse 4
C C 
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And I lie on my bed,
G G 
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staring into the red
C C 
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And the overdraft won't come down
Em Em 
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G G 
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And it's hard work keeping
D D 
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your family together,
C C 
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Living on borrowed ground

Interlude 1

Verse 5
Em Em 
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D D 
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And I don't blame your brother,
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Em Em 
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son, for moving into town
G G 
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It's no place here for a
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bright young man,
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Living on borrowed ground.

Interlude 2

Verse 6

And I watch all the programs on the ABC,

After the sun's gone down

Lucy Broad's talking on

"Countrywide",

Interlude 3

Talking about borrowed ground.

Verse 7
G G 
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We don't own this place anymore and I
C C 
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Am Am 
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don't know how or why.
G G 
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There's some money- men coming from Sydney
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Am Am 
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C C 
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who tell me it's only a matter or time.
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D D 
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Well, I hope they can read the seasons and they're
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Am Am 
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not here just to muck around
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Cause they've still got to
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feed a nation,
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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They've got to feed them from borrowed
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G G 
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C C 
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G G 
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D D 
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C C 
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G G 
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