Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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something to write home about
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And I'll take you somewhere,
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show you around
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that laid down and died
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We burnt all the trees to keep
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us alive
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Sat 'round the fire, sang like a choir
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Verse 2
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I come alive
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I read the signs on the
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Verse 3
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Far off, a dull radio
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Beats for the young uninvolved
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The meaning's a football
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A stick and a can and a Kakadu man
Verse 4
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the talker talk down?
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and here in this town
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Shit falls like rain on a world that is brown
Verse 5
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I come alive
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I read the signs on the
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Gunbarrel Highway
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(Oh, crazy days)
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I come alive
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And the children will sing
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As the satellite swings down that highway
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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that corrugated road
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road trains go
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dust storms blow so hard
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So hard
Verse 7
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I come alive
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I read the signs on the
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Gunbarrel Highway
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I hear the sound
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It's the wheels as they drive and the
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cultures collide on that highway
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Ah, it a hard day
(I come alive)
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The children will sing as the satel
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lite swings down that highway
Outro 1
Oh, yeah
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