Key: G major
Verse 1
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A stranger came into the district last week
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F
He wasn't a Pole
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We enquired was he Irish,
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Am
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he answered us no
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C
where the pineapples grow.
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He answered so manly,
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C
quite at his ease,
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saying neither too much
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Em
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He was hardly a stranger by tea time,
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although he came from up north
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C
where the pineapples grow.
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F
We swap the old stories
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C
of famine and flood,
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of cruel politicians that
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We had hoped that it might
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have been local,
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Where the pineapples grow.
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We tickled his fancy with
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C
peaches and cream,
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Showed him Paul Angus
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He agreed they were mighty,
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Em
but still he must go.
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where the pineapples grow.
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The moral of this story's
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too plain to bespoke.
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Em
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The bloke on the land is a sensible bloke,
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Be he brown as a berry,
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Em
or black as a crow,
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C
where the pineapples grow.
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