Key: C major
Verse 1
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Am
C
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C
Outside my
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Am
door when I was young
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G
There flowed a shining river
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Em
Am
Gleaming in the sum mer sun
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G
It used to shine like silver
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G
Am
And the banks were lined with willow trees
Dm
G
and tall green waving rushes
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G
Am
Songbirds sang in the summer breeze
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G
and nested in the bushes
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Dm
we got together
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G
C
to sing our shining river
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G
C
Ah, don't you think it's time,
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Am
Time, time, time
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Em
Am
The willow trees have long since gone
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G
C
Em
And where my river
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G
There's just an open sewer
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G
Am
And the banks are lined with factories
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G
Grey towers of bricks and mortar
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G
There's smog and dust
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G
And poison in the water
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C
To save our shining river
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C
Oh, don't you think it's time,
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Am
Time, time, time
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Em
Am
And where the silver gum did stand,
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G
Where bloomed the yellow wattle,
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Em
Am
Now there's only old tin cans
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Am
G
And piles of broken bottle.
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G
Am
And the banks are lined with mud and silt,
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G
The rivers thick with slime.
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G
Am
And you ask me who must bear the guilt
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G
When the fault is yours and mine
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C
To save our shining river
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C
Dm
It will soon be gone forever
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C
Oh, don't you think it's time,
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G
Am
Time, time, time, time
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