Drought chords by Ted Egan

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Verse 1
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She stared across the treeless plain
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that often had enthralled.
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Today the five -year drought still burned,
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the tortured sight appalled.
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Their barren shelly cattle
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stood dying on their feet
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She watched her husband riding home,
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a spectre in retreat
A message came that morning
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on the big bank's letterhead
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A shaking hand, she opened it,
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this is what it said
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The auction of your property
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will go ahead as planned
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Three weeks  from now,
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walk in , walk out
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Arrangements are in hand
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It was too much for the wo man,
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she closed the jars
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And then she shouted out,
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I can't see now,
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it's ever going to rain again
She thought of love and passion
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in the big old bed where they
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Had made the sons and daughters
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who'd now all gone away
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She held her husband tenderly,
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their calloused hands clamped tight
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They stared into the darkness
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of never -ending night
She took her husband's shotgun
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that she found behind the door
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She'd seen that haunted, desperate look
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on her father's face before
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She quietly packed her linen,
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her photos and the gun
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The ribbons and the trophies
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their little kids had won
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It was too much for the woman,
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she cursed the drowning men
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Shallow down, I can't see
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how it's ever gonna rain
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The auctioneer was at his best,
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he jollied up the throng
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A city lawyer bought the place,
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got it for a song
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This handy bush investment,
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pay his income tax,
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fly friends in on the weekends,
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a great place to relax.
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It was too much for the wo man,
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she cursed the drought and then,
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she shouted out, I can't
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It's ever gonna rain again