Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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And there's sorrows, smoke and stories
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in the barracks of my mind
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And I'm with him still in the trenches,
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I can see his dark brown eyes
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And his courage gave me courage
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for that hellhole far away
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To fight for someone else's king
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He said, one invading mob's too many
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Then he walked away
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By every Anzac Day
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Mudham Bridge and Mundrabilla
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From Narrow Court and Perth
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First Australian station hands
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Just a dirty khaki brown
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And on our upturned slouch hat brims
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We had no time for race
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we're all just shades of grey
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he kept them well tucked away
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Every Anzac, Every Anzac,
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Every Anzac Day
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Every Anzac Day
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Amityth, Flanders, Tarrancot,
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Selma and Ley
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Somalia, Crete and Kapyong,
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When the show was over,
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Pozzier, Burlittlewood,
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We drifted back into our lives
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And we all tried to hide the scars
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Of the tears and fears and terrors
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But the bastards wouldn't let him in
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They didn't see a soldier
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Just the first Australian
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And I wonder what it was we fought for
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What it was that gave away
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This reconciliation's still to come
On every Anzac Day
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Every Anzac, every Anzac,
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every Anzac Day
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Every Anzac Day
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So when the sun sets in the evening
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When the dawn lights up the sky
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We remember those first Australians
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Country, the towns, Torres Strait
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Live free and tax die.
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Live free an d tax die.
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Live free and tax die.
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Live free and tax die.
Live free and tax die. die.
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Every other time you cry
Outro 1
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