Gladstone pier chords by Redgum
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Peter was a sailor
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Swarthy lean and proud
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He could take a schooner
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through a big sea swell
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Aloof in the mainland crowd
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She loved his quiet laughter
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Verse 2
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Like a boy he'd shrug and grin
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Beach stretched wide at Port Mackay
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With dreams upon the wind
Verse 3
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He wore her name in a rose tattoo
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Long weekends of gins and lime
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She lived in Cairns made
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plans to move
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Checkout girl part- time
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And rumour said there's
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a boom ahead
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You can make your future here
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By the Gladstone pier
Verse 4
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A two roomed five row shelter
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Empty hopes, the damp, the flies
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Prices hyped her face grew tight
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And conversation died
Verse 5
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And the foreman at the smelter
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said you're much too old
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Try the cane fields further north
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And the clerk at the market said we
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don't buy trouble
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There's a strike down at the port
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Then a
Verse 6
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six- day shift in a filthy pit
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The drag lines gouging coal
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The black dust gnaws
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at your lungs and pores
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And anger rots your soul
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And the queue round the block
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waits for you to drop
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Can you take it for another year
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By the Gladstone Pier
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Every Sunday he'd walk alone
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Casting pebbles at the passing waves
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Plunge in brine cleanse his pride
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A stronger man remains
Verse 8
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The crunch of shale and distant sails
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Ached within his bones
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Seeing ships upon the tide
Bound for ports unknown
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Interlude 2
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Verse 9
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Soon he drank for comfort
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She grew bitter in the weeks between
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The nights of beer and hollow cheer
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When love became routine
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They fought, she left him crying
Verse 10
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Angry words in a last cafe
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In desperation on a lonely night
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She took the bus to Cairns next day
Verse 11
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And Gladstone couples break that way
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Mutual blame and no regrets
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And boomtown blues
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just fade to grey
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And all that's left are debts
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He
Verse 12
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cried:
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"I've got to leave this dirty old town
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And the rattle of broken men
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Break these chains and wash the pain
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And put to sea again
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Drained all my passion my
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anger and my fears
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And sank them in a flagon
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Under Gladstone pier"
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Verse 13
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She saw him through the
Greyhound window
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As the dawn glowed on the chrome
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Standing by the pier under sullen skies
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Sea winds calling home
Verse 14
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From Surfers up to Townsville
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Past the high- rise colonies
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Fast food, cheap hotels
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And two more boomtown refugees
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Outro 1
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