Manilla NSW chords by Darren Hanlon

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Verse 1
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That I happene
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d to a town once
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Is of no consequence to my story
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But i burned all of my diaries
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The day a town happened to
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me
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I guess I should've

Verse 2
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called you
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But payphones there were
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just so hungry
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I was busy writing headlines
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Like 'postbox eats the hand
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of lady'
Who fixes stamps to cutout competitions
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She kisses each letter she mails
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This is how i found Manilla,
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Ma nilla New South Wales

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Verse 3

Cold beer for welcome stranger

Choose to refuse and so politely

Is to risk the danger

That they'll raise the kind of hell known only

by the New South Welsh

To be heard along the Namoi banks

And out across the distant ranges

Verse 4
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You've had so many lov ers
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D 
Your brothers would be so proud of thee
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But one way of another they've drif
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ted to be beside a sea
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While the information clock has tied a knot
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With both it's hands and
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holds us by our tails
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We're all bound by time to Ma nilla,
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Manilla New South Wales

Verse 5
D 
Can you pick a grave for me in the ruins
of cordial factories
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Where flavoured flowers grow
pirouetting in cul- de- sacs
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Miss the sound of clickety clacks on tracks
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that trains won't go
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And out through windows
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The shop keepers gape out over

Verse 6
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the landscape
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They're praying for sales
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Religion makes more sense in Manilla,
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Manilla New South Wales

Verse 7
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Here's to the folk behind fences
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Furtively readjusting denches
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A chorus of corellas
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D 
Form clouds over saturday benches
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Where old men sit and lick
tobacco papers
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They look like a harmonica band
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As the sun tiptoes down Manilla St
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And slowly comes to land