Pastures Of Plenty chords by Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls

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Verse 1
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 (G major) It's a mighty rough road that
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my poor hand  (E minor) has o 'ered
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My  (G major) poor feet have travelled
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a hot dusty  (E minor) road
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 (G major) Out of your dust bowl
and westward we rode
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 (E minor) Your deserts were hot and
your mountains were cold
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I  (G major) worked in your orchards
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of peaches and prunes  (E minor) 
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I  (G major) slept on your ground,
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meet the light of  (E minor) your moon
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At the edge  (G major) of your city,
you see us and then
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 (E minor) We  come with the dust and
are gone with the wind
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 (G major) California,
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Arizona, I make all your crops  (E minor) 
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Then  (G major) it's north up to
Oregon to gather your hops
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 (E minor) Take  (G major) the beets from your ground,
take the grapes from your vine
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 (E minor) To  lay on your table your
light sparkling wine
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Green  (G major) pastures of plenty
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from dry desert  (E minor) ground
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From  (G major) the
Grand
Coulee
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Dam where the water  (E minor) run s down
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Every state  (G major) in this union
has migrants that win
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 (E minor) And workers must fight,
and we'll fight till we win
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Well it's al (G major) ways we ramble,
that river and I
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 (E minor) All  (G major) along your green valleys,
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I'll work till I die  (E minor) 
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This land  (G major) I'll defend with
my life if it be
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 (E minor) Because pastures of plenty