Gladstone pier

Gladstone pier easy guitar chords by Redgum

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  • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    Peter 
    was 
    a sailor 

    Swarthy 
    lean 
    and proud 

    He could 
    take 
    a schooner 

    through 
    big 
    sea swell 

    Aloof 
    in the 
    mainland 
    crowd 

    She 
    loved 
    his 
    quiet 
    laughter 
    Verse 2

    Like 
    boy 
    he'd 
    shrug 
    and grin 

    Beach 
    stretched 
    wide 
    at 
    Port 
    Mackay 

    With 
    dreams 
    upon 
    the 
    wind 

    Verse 3
    He 
    wore 
    her 
    name 
    in 
    rose 
    tattoo 

    Long week
    ends 
    of gin
    and lime 

    She 
    lived 
    in 
    Cairns 
    made 

    plans 
    to move 

    Checkout 
    girl 
    part- 
    time 

    And 
    rumour 
    said 
    there's 

    boom 
    ahead 

    You can 
    make 
    your future 
    here 

    By the 
    Gladstone 
    pier 

    Verse 4

    two roomed 
    five 
    row shelter 

    Empty 
    hopes, 
    the 
    damp, 
    the 
    flies 

    Prices 
    hyped her 
    face 
    grew tight 

    And 
    conversation 
    died 

    Verse 5
    And the 
    foreman 
    at the 
    smelter 

    said you're 
    much 
    too old 

    Try the 
    cane 
    fields 
    further 
    north 

    And the 
    clerk 
    at the 
    market 
    said we 

    don't 
    buy 
    trouble 

    There's a strike 
    down at 
    the 
    port 

    Then a 
    Verse 6
    six- 
    day 
    shift 
    in a 
    filthy 
    pit 

    The 
    drag 
    lines 
    gouging 
    coal 

    The 
    black 
    dust 
    gnaws 

    at your 
    lungs 
    and pores 

    And 
    anger 
    rots 
    your 
    soul 

    And the 
    queue 
    round the 
    block 

    waits for 
    you 
    to drop 

    Can you 
    take it 
    for 
    another 
    year 

    By 
    the Gladstone 
    Pier 

    Interlude 1





    Verse 7
    Every 
    Sunday 
    he'd 
    walk 
    alone 

    Casting 
    pebbles 
    at the 
    passing 
    waves 

    Plunge 
    in 
    brine 
    cleanse 
    his pride 

    stronger 
    man 
    remains 

    Verse 8
    The 
    crunch 
    of 
    shale 
    and 
    distant 
    sails 

    Ached 
    within 
    his 
    bones 

    Seeing 
    ships 
    upon 
    the 
    tide 

    Bound 
    for ports 
    unknown 

    Interlude 2




    Verse 9
    Soon 
    he 
    drank 
    for comfort 

    She 
    grew 
    bitter 
    in the 
    weeks 
    between 

    The 
    nights 
    of beer 
    and 
    hollow 
    cheer 

    When 
    love 
    became 
    routine 

    They 
    fought, 
    she 
    left 
    him crying 
    Verse 10

    Angry 
    words 
    in a 
    last 
    cafe 

    In 
    desperation 
    on a 
    lonely 
    night 

    She 
    took the 
    bus 
    to Cairns 
    next 
    day 

    Verse 11
    And 
    Gladstone 
    couples 
    break 
    that 
    way 

    Mutual 
    blame 
    and no 
    regrets 

    And 
    boomtown blues 

    just 
    fade 
    to grey 

    And 
    all 
    that's left 
    are debts 

    He 
    Verse 12
    cried: 

    "I've got to 
    leave 
    this 
    dirty 
    old 
    town 

    And 
    the 
    rattle 
    of 
    broken 
    men 

    Break 
    these 
    chains 
    and 
    wash 
    the pain 

    And 
    put 
    to sea 
    again 

    Drained 
    all my 
    passion 
    my 

    anger 
    and my 
    fears 

    And 
    sank them 
    in a 
    flagon 

    Under 
    Gladstone 
    pier" 

    Verse 13

    She 
    saw 
    him through the 

    Greyhound 
    window 

    As the 
    dawn 
    glowed 
    on 
    the chrome 

    Stand
    ing 
    by 
    the pier 
    under 
    sul
    len 
    skies 

    Sea 
    winds 
    calling 
    home 

    Verse 14
    From 
    Surfers 
    up 
    to Townsville 

    Past 
    the 
    high- 
    rise 
    colonies 

    Fast 
    food, 
    cheap 
    ho
    tels 

    And two more 
    boomtown refugees 

    Outro 1






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