The uplift (words by banjo patterson) chords by Andrew morris

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Verse 1
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When the drains
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are bogged and sinking
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And it's no use sitting there thinking
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You must put the teams together
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And double bag the pole
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When the crop is light and weedy
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Or the fleece is burnt and seedy
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Then the next year's crops and fleeces
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We'll repay you to the full
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So if you're a jolly little fellow
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Put your back in it and shift her
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While the jabber, jabber, jabber
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Of the politician's flow
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If you're next to poor to travel
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Then get down to scratch the gravel
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For you'll get there if you walk it
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If you don't you'll feed the crows
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Shall we waste our time debating
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With a grand young country waiting
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For the plow and for the harrow
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And the lucerne and the maize?
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So it's lifter, Johnny lifter,
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put your back in it and shifter
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Wipe the dirt from your eyes
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and get back to the toil
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For it's worth the love that was saved
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In the land that fortune gave us,
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there's no crop but we'll grow it,
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no seed but we'll sow it,
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no feed but we'll save it,
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no stock but we'll raise it.
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When the team is bogged and sinking,
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and it's no use sitting
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and  thinking,
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there's a road way up the mountain
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that the old black leader knows.
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So it's lift her, Johnny, lift her
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Put your back in it and shift her
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Take a lesson from the bullet
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He goes slowly but he goes
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So it's lift her Johnny, lift her
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Push it back in and shift her
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Lift her, Tony, lift her
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Put your back in it
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And shift her