The Bush Girl chords by Bruce Woodley

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Verse 1
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So
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you rode from the range
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where your brothers slept
Through the ghostly grey
bush in the dawn
You rode slowly at first,
lest a heart should suspect
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That you were so glad to be gone
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You had scarcely the courage
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to glance back at her
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By the homestead receding from view
And you breathed with relief
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as you rounded the spur
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For the world was a wide world to you
Grey eyes that grow sadder
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than the sunset of end
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Fond heart that is ever more true,
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Firm faith that grows firmer
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for what she invent,
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She'll wait by the slip rings
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for you.
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Ah, the world is a new
and a wide one to you
But the world to your
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sweetheart is shut
For a change never comes
to the lonely bush girl
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From the stockyard, the bush, and the hut
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And the only relief
from its dullness she feels
Is when ridges grow softened and dim
And away in the dusk
to the slip rail she steals
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To dream of past meetings with him
Grey eyes that grow sadder
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than sunset or rain
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Fond heart that is ever more true
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Firm faith that grows firmer
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for watching in vain
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She'll wait by the slipper and
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it's for you
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Do you think where in place of bare fences,
dry creeks,
clear streams
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and green hedges are seen?
Where the girls have lily
and rose in their cheeks,
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and the grass in midsummer is green?
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Do you think now and then,
now or then in the world
Of the city while London is new?
Of the hut in the bush
and the freckle -faced girl
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Who is eating her heart out for you?
Grey eyes that are sadder
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than sunset or rain
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Bruised heart that is ever more true
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Fond faith that is firmer
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for trusting in faith
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She waits by the slip rails for you
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She waits by the slipper edge for you,
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just for you.
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You