Best Tuning App Ever
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ted chords by 
Redgum
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Intro 1
Em
D
G
D
C
Em
D
Em
G
D
Em
Esus4
Em
G
D
Em
On a back block down
Verse 1
Salisbury Plains
D
Em
Ted was born in 1895
C
G
D
Thrust from the loins on to rusty soil
G
Bm
And the cord was cut with a scythe
B
Em
He said "People there are
city folk today
D
And they couldn't tell
Em
shit from clay
C
G
D
A ripening crop of stobie poles
G
D
There's no regrets when
Em
C
the memory roams
G
D
Em
That earth is in me bones"
Verse 2
G
D
Em
Esus4
Em
Did his bit in the first World War
D
Em
Took the shilling to fight the Hun
C
G
D
Mud up to his crotch in Flanders fields
G
Bm
And the gas eating out his lungs
B
Em
He said "Me best mate died
hanging on the barbed wire
D
Em
And when the attack was through
C
G
We took some prisoners to HQ
D
G
D
Em
And shared a fag and a yarn or two
C
G
D
Em
They were the same as me and you"
Verse 3
C
D
And I asked old Ted what history meant
G
C
Em
As he sharpened his hedging shears
C
D
"What a bloody fool question that is my boy
C
Am
I lived it for 83 years"
Em
Verse 4
G
D
Em
See him every year on Anzac Day
D
Swilling beers down at the
Em
Rex Hotel
C
He'd laugh with his mates
G
and go deep in thought
D
G
Bm
Where he went even he couldn't tell
B
Em
He said "K ing and Country,
cock'n'bull
D
Em
We fought just to survive
C
G
The anger might have faded still
D
C
this feeling grabs me deep inside
G
D
Em
I guess you could call it pride"
Verse 5
G
D
Em
As a navvy on the line in the Nullabor
D
Em
The Depression left its scars
C
G
Heaving cold steel rails in the burning sun
D
G
Bm
And freezing beneath the stars
B
Em
He said "If you escaped
the susso queues
D
Em
You had a hell of price to pay
C
G
D
And when time flowed like an open wound
G
D
Em
I'd blow me dough on a Sat urday
C
G
D
Em
And drink the pain away"
Verse 6
C
D
G
And I asked old Ted what history meant
C
Em
As he sharpened his hedging shears
C
D
G
"What a bloody fool question that is my boy
C
Am
Em
I lived it for 83 years"
On Sunday arvo he'd sit and talk
D
Over a dozen cold West End
C
Of what was gained and
what was lost
Am
D
And would never come again
Verse 7
Em
He said "Money you know
it comes and goes
D
On booze and rent and fags
C
You can make a fortune on overtime
Am
D
And lose it all on the nags
Em
But years of toil with a bunch of mates
D
You know it leaves you satisfied
C
Though we never moved a mountain
Am
D
We sure gave it a try"
Em
Pick the wheat from the chaff
Verse 8
D
And the steel from the scurf
C
Bm
And the honest man from the li ar
Am
C
If wisdom came by other names
G
D
Em
D
G
D
Ted was earth and fire
C
Em
D
G
D
Em
Esus4
Em
On the day that old Ted died
D
Em
No- one would have known
C
G
D
Buried in a pauper's grave
G
Bm
He lived and died alone
B
Em
And the 727s roared overhead
D
With the drone of the angry
Em
roads
C
G
D
There seemed a pause for just a while
G
D
And the silence was heard
Em
C
around for miles
G
D
And the silence was heard for miles
Outro 1
Em
D
Em
G
D
C
B
Em
D
G
D
Em
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