Songs From The Homeland chords by Graeme Connors

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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At the top end of Market
near Castlereagh Street
There's a busker singing
and playing the fool
With a piano recording
slung around his shoulders
A 
and a hat at his feet
to capture the coins and a nod and a wave
to the generous ones
D 
and he's singing a song
that's vaguely familiar
the words from a poem by Lawson
Bm 
I think but whoever it's from
G 
it's surely Australian
A 
the way the words flow
and the spirit lives
and though I'm in a hurry
I must stay and listen
D 
to the song from the homeland
A 
A song from the club,
D 
a song to remind me
A 
Of the country I love
G 
There's beauty no doubt,
D 
G 
beneath foreign skies
Em 
But a song from the homeland
A 
The song from the homeland
D 
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G 
D 
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D 
G 
brings tears to my eyes
D 
For mysterious reasons
G 
I can't walk away
D 
I'm drawn by the harp
to the songs he keeps playing
G 
From Botany Bay to Waltzing Matilda
A 
Collect all the shears
The little boy loves
D 
A 
The lights on again
D 
A 
And the cooler men grow wild
D 
And it hits me like lightning
I'm the only one there
Only one from the hundreds
In the passing parade
Bm 
In a city of strangers
G 
From all around the world
A 
They come for the money
They come for the sun
They come for the proms,
D 
but they don't give a damn about
Songs from the homeland,
A 
songs from the blood
D 
Songs to remind me
A 
of the country I love
G 
There's beauty, no doubt,
D 
G 
beneath foreign skies
Em 
G 
But songs from the homeland
A 
Em 
Songs from the homeland
A 
Em 
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Bring peace to my life
A 
Songs from the blood
D 
Songs to remind me
A 
Of the country I love
G 
There's beauty, doubt
D 
G 
Many a  foreign sky,
Em 
but songs from the homeland
G 
A 
Songs from the homeland
D 
bring tears to my eyes
A 
Songs from home, love
D 
Songs to remind me
A 
Of the country I love
G 
There's beauty no doubt
D 
G 
Beneath foreign skies
Em 
But songs from the homeland
A 
Songs  from the homeland
G 
A 
Em 
D 
D 
Bring tears to my eyes
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