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Key: E minor
Intro 1
Gm
Gm

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F

Bb
Bb

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F

Eb
Eb

Gm
Gm

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F

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

Gsus4
Gsus4

Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

On a back block down
Verse 1
Salisbury Plains
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F

Gm
Gm

Ted was born in 1895
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Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

Thrust from the loins on to rusty soil
Bb
Bb

Dm
Dm

And the cord was cut with a scythe
D
D

Gm
Gm

He said "People there are
city folk today
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F

And they couldn't tell
Gm
Gm

shit from clay
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

A ripening crop of stobie poles
Bb
Bb

F
F

There's no regrets when
Gm
Gm

Eb
Eb

the memory roams
Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

That earth is in me bones"
Verse 2
Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

Gsus4
Gsus4

Gm
Gm

Did his bit in the first World War
F
F

Gm
Gm

Took the shilling to fight the Hun
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

Mud up to his crotch in Flanders fields
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Bb

Dm
Dm

And the gas eating out his lungs
D
D

Gm
Gm

He said "Me best mate died
hanging on the barbed wire
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F

Gm
Gm

And when the attack was through
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Eb

Bb
Bb

We took some prisoners to HQ
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F

Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

And shared a fag and a yarn or two
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

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F

Gm
Gm

They were the same as me and you"
Verse 3
Eb
Eb

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F

And I asked old Ted what history meant
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Bb

Eb
Eb

Gm
Gm

As he sharpened his hedging shears
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Eb

F
F

"What a bloody fool question that is my boy
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Eb

Cm
Cm

I lived it for 83 years"
Gm
Gm

Verse 4
Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

See him every year on Anzac Day
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F

Swilling beers down at the
Gm
Gm

Rex Hotel
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Eb

He'd laugh with his mates
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Bb

and go deep in thought
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F

Bb
Bb

Dm
Dm

Where he went even he couldn't tell
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D

Gm
Gm

He said "K ing and Country,
cock'n'bull
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F

Gm
Gm

We fought just to survive
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Eb

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Bb

The anger might have faded still
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F

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Eb

this feeling grabs me deep inside
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Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

I guess you could call it pride"
Verse 5
Bb
Bb

F
F

Gm
Gm

As a navvy on the line in the Nullabor
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F

Gm
Gm

The Depression left its scars
Eb
Eb

Bb
Bb

Heaving cold steel rails in the burning sun
F
F

Bb
Bb

Dm
Dm

And freezing beneath the stars
D
D

Gm
Gm

He said "If you escaped
the susso queues
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F

Gm
Gm

You had a hell of price to pay
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Eb

Bb
Bb

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F

And when time flowed like an open wound
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Bb

F
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Gm

I'd blow me dough on a Sat urday
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Eb

Bb
Bb

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F

Gm
Gm

And drink the pain away"
Verse 6
Eb
Eb

F
F

Bb
Bb

And I asked old Ted what history meant
Eb
Eb

Gm
Gm

As he sharpened his hedging shears
Eb
Eb

F
F

Bb
Bb

"What a bloody fool question that is my boy
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Eb

Cm
Cm

Gm
Gm

I lived it for 83 years"
On Sunday arvo he'd sit and talk
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F

Over a dozen cold West End
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Eb

Of what was gained and
what was lost
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Cm

F
F

And would never come again
Verse 7
Gm
Gm

He said "Money you know
it comes and goes
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F

On booze and rent and fags
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Eb

You can make a fortune on overtime
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Cm

F
F

And lose it all on the nags
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Gm

But years of toil with a bunch of mates
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F

You know it leaves you satisfied
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Eb

Though we never moved a mountain
Cm
Cm

F
F

We sure gave it a try"
Gm
Gm

Pick the wheat from the chaff
Verse 8
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F

And the steel from the scurf
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Eb

Dm
Dm

And the honest man from the li ar
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Cm

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Eb

If wisdom came by other names
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Bb

F
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Gm
Gm

F
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Bb

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Ted was earth and fire
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Eb

Gm
Gm

F
F

Bb
Bb

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Gm
Gm

Gsus4
Gsus4

Gm
Gm

On the day that old Ted died
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Gm
Gm

No- one would have known
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Eb

Bb
Bb

F
F

Buried in a pauper's grave
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Bb

Dm
Dm

He lived and died alone
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D

Gm
Gm

And the 727s roared overhead
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F

With the drone of the angry
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Gm

roads
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Eb

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There seemed a pause for just a while
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Bb

F
F

And the silence was heard
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Gm

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around for miles
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Bb

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And the silence was heard for miles
Outro 1
Gm
Gm

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Gm
Gm

Bb
Bb

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Eb
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D
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Gm
Gm

F
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Bb
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Gm
Gm

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