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Verse 1
(A minor) (F sharp major) (A minor)
As I rolled out by
their Moxbury bounds
Where all the maids of Australia
did play their wild pranks
by a shady green bough,
(F sharp major) I sat myself down,
(A minor) where all the birds sang so gaily
and chanting all round,
in the forests of happy Australia,
in the forests of happy (D major) Australia,
(A minor) where the maidens
are handsome (D major) and gay.
Well, (A minor) I had not been long in
that beautiful sheen,
where all the (G major) fields are (A minor) de lightful,
the trees evergreen,
where the pretty gay damsel
to (C sharp major) me (A minor) did appear.
To the banks of the river
she quickly drew near
She's a native of happy Australia
She's a native of happy Aus (D major) tralia
(A minor) Where the maidens
are handsome and gay
(C sharp major) Well, she (A minor) took off her (D major) clothes,
(C sharp major) and before (D major) me she (A minor) stood
Just as naked as Venus
would come from the flood
She looked me in my face
and smiling said she
Oh, this is the robe that day nature
gave me
On the day I was born in Australia
On the day I was born in Aus (D major) trali (A minor) a,
Where the maidens are handsome
and (D major) gay. (A minor) (D major)
(A minor) Well she jumped in the water
without fear (G major) or dread,
(A minor) And her beautiful limbs
she exceedingly spread,
And her hair hanging ringlets,
and the colour (G major) it was (A minor) black.
She cried, Sir,
you can see how I swim on my back,
In the streams of my native Australia.
In the streams of my native
Aus (D major) trali (A minor) a.
Where the maidens are handsome and (D major) gay
Oh, but be (A minor) ing tired of swimming,
she came to the brink
(B major) Oh, (A minor) assist me, kind sir,
for I'm sure I shall sink
(C sharp major) So, like lightning, I (A minor) flew,
took her (F sharp major) fast by the (B major) hand
But my faulty did (F sharp major) slip,
we (A minor) both fell to the sand
And I entered the bush of Australia
I entered the bush of Aus (D major) tralia
(A minor) Where the maidens
are handsome (D major) an d gay
And (A minor) we sported (C sharp major) together
in the highest (A minor) of glee
In (B major) the (F sharp major) finest Australi (B major) a you (A minor) ever did (C sharp major) see
Till my head on her (F sharp major) beautiful
(C sharp major) breast did (A minor) incline
(B major) An (A minor) d the sun in the west,
all his glories resigned
And I left that fair maid of Australia
I (B major) left (A minor) that fair maid of Aus (D major) tralia
(A minor) Just as the moon (C sharp major) did shine (F sharp major)
Maid of Australia
Jon Boden
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