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