Key: C major•
Verse 1
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Oh,
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strapping young stockman lay dying
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Dm
A saddle supporting his head
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All around him his true mates were crying
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C
As he leaned on his elbow and said
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Wrap me up with my stock
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whip and blanket
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Dm
And bury me deep down below
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Where the dingoes and
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In the shade where
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There's tea in the old battered billy
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Dm
Place the panikins all in a row
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And we'll drink to the
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For I'm going where good stockmen go
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Wrap me up with my
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And bury me deep down below
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Where the dingoes and
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crows can't molest me
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In the shade where the coulibas grow
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Oh cut down a couple of saplings
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Place one at my head and my toe
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Carve on them cross,
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stock whip and saddle,
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To show there's a stockman below.
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Wrap me up with my stock
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And bury me deep down below,
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Where the dingoes and crows
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can't mo lest me
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In the shade where the
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coulibars grow
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Hark! there's the call of the curlew
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Sounding so mournful and low
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He sings the last song of the stockman,
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for he's go ing where
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Wrap me up with my stock
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whip and blanket,
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and bury me deep down below,
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Where the dingoes and
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In the shade where
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the coulibas grow.
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Oh, had I the flight of the bronze wing,
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Far o 'er the plains would I fly.
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I'd fly right back to my true love,
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and there in her arms I would die.
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Wrap me up with my stop
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and bury me deep down below,
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Where the dingoes and
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In the shade where the culivars grow.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC G F Dm Em
C
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F
Dm
Em
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