Coober Pedy chords by John Williamson
Verse 1
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It's a long
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road to Coober Pedy
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Trying to write a note to you
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You can tell by the shaky hands
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It's not an easy thing to do
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You can see by the smudgy paper
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there's bulldust in the air
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There's no piece of cake on a gravel road
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to write you that I care
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But the government will
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tar the road by 1988
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But for poor old Bob and his trucky mates
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It's at least ten years too late
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Still it got us to where they mine
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Those sparkling milky jewels
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Where men can strike it rich
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Where fate has struck at fool
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Well, we drank and talked to the locals
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And ate at the Opal Inn
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The vegetable soup I'm
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pleased to say
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Wasn't out of a heated tin
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And the bowls were more like gold pans
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And boy, the broth was great
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It reminded me of my grandma,
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so I ordered another plate
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In a dusty gleam -to -town,
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with a dusty digger's face
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Where you can find an opal, Eddie,
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you can stand the pace
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Where you can be a miner
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no matter what your race
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Where you can dig a hole
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and live and die without a trace
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Well the bloke at the local garage
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knew the town he now despised
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He said it really had character,
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but now it's all commercial
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Well I'm blood if I could see it,
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it had a hell of a way to go
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But his petrol was dear as poison,
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so I guess he ought to know
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In a dusty lean -to town,
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with a dusty digger's face
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Where you can find an opal,
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if you can stand the pace
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Where you can be a miner
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no matter what your age
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Where you can dig a hole
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and live and die without a trace
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Well the blacks call
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them whitefella burrows
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Like anthills everywhere
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And blowers pop through those
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sandstone dumps
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Lookin' like hammerheads in the air
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In the middle of nothing but saltbush
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It's alien and it's rare
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There's no piece of cake on a gravel road
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To write you that I care
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In a dusty lean -to town
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With a dusty figure's face,
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where you can find an opal
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If you can stand the place,
where you can be a miner
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No matter what your race,
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where you can dig a hole
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We'll live and die without
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dreams
Outro 1
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Coober Pedy
John Williamson
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