Carrington Cabaret chords by Redgum
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Intro 1
(A major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (F sharp minor) (G major) (A major) (G major)
Are (A major) you proud
Verse 1
(D major) white
Australians wherever (F sharp minor) you are?
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Verse 2
(G major) Beer in your hand and your
el (A major) bow on the bar
Verse 3
(D major) All you people from Dar
(F sharp minor) win to the south
Verse 4
With your blue (G major) faded jeans and
a joint (A major) in your mouth (G major)
Verse 5
Young (D major) (F sharp minor) sophisticates making the scene
Verse 6
At the Lion (G major) Hotel in your
rolled (A major) up jeans
Verse 7
Something (D major) going on,
we're (F sharp minor) all employed
Verse 8
(G major) Last night another (A major) pickininny died
Interlude 1
(G major) (A major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (F sharp minor) (G major) (A major)
Verse 9
In the dirt (D major) filled gutters on the cold (F sharp minor) concrete
Verse 10
At the nightclub (G major) end of (A major) Hindley Street
Verse 11
Sit dusky (D major) young ladies
learn (F sharp minor) ing the rules
Verse 12
From (G major) drunks and traps and
the hard (A major) knocks school
Verse 13
(D major) Milky brown eyes from (F sharp minor) drinking all day
Verse 14
Till it's time (G major) at the Carrington (A major) Cabaret
(G major)
Verse 15
(D major) Down at the port a (F sharp minor) sick black mum
Verse 16
(G major) Rings for a taxi but the taxi (A major)
Interlude 2
won't come
(A major) (G major) (A major) (G major) (A major)
Verse 17
It's probably (B minor) too painful
for (F sharp minor) us to understand
Verse 18
But two (G major) hundred (A major) years ago we (D major) overran
their (A major) land
Verse 19
(B minor)
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now,
an (F sharp minor) alcoholic sleep
Verse 20
Aus (G major) tralia land of (A major) things to do have you (G major) got
Interlude 3
time to weep
(A major) (G major) (A major) (G major) (A major) (D major) (F sharp minor) (G major)
(A major)
Verse 21
Oh our great (D major) free land of (F sharp minor) fire and rain
Verse 22
White (G major) man's wealth and
black (A major) man's pain
Verse 23
You've (D major) got to be white if
you (F sharp minor) want to get in
Verse 24
It's the black (G major) man's country
but the white (A major) man's in
Verse 25
Too ut (D major) ter distasteful for civ (F sharp minor) ilized man
Verse 26
(G major) Hide them away in Arnhem (A major) Land
Verse 27
Shake (D major) your head and say (F sharp minor) "That's that"
Verse 28
As you (G major) kick away the bottles
on (A major) Pinky flat
Interlude 4
(A major) (G major) (A major) (G major) (A major)
Verse 29
It's probably (B minor) too painful
for (F sharp minor) us to understand
Verse 30
But two (G major) hundred (A major) years ago we (D major) overran
their (A major) land
Verse 31
(B minor)
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now,
an (F sharp minor) alcohol sleep
Verse 32
Aus (G major) tralia land of (A major) things to do
have you (G major) got time to weep
Outro 1
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Carrington Cabaret
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