# # #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# ##This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# ##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# # #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# # #From: LTWU46B@prodigy.com (MR KEN L REYNOLDS) #Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:38:16, -0500 #Subject: CRD:_sing_australia_by John Denver # #album: Higher Ground #song: Sing Australia #artist: John Denver #transcribed: Ken Reynolds # #This one goes out to an old "mate and cobber", Anne and her friend #Robin, I enjoyed the concert. And to all the other friends I made. # #Sing Australia #John Denver (klr) # D AsusD Asus4 D I come to Australia as many people do Asus4D Bm A To see the old Koala, hitch a ride on a kanga roo D Asus4 D Asus4 To hear some body call me mate, and call some D body blue Asus4D A D To hear an abo rigine play a diggerid do Asus4 D Asus4 D Some of you came as prisoners, two centu ries ago Asus4 D Bm Some of you came as Kings and Queens, your blessings A to be stow D Asus4 D Some of you stand all swelled with pride Asus4 D Some with shattered wings Asus4 D A But all of us come with open hearts to hear Aus D tralia sing G D In the desert, in the city G D In the mountains and in the sea G D In the stories and in the people A D I can hear Aus tralia sing D AsusD Asus4 D Waltzing Ma tilda, the men of Galli poli Asus4 D Bm A Clancy of the overflow and Crocodile Dun dee D Asus4D Asus4 The myth of all creation, the teaching of D Baia me Asus4 D A D The legends of the dreamtime, for all eter nity Asus4 D Asus4 D And in this cele bration, a brief two hundred years Asus4 D Bm The cost to build a nation, in blood and sweat and A tears D Asus4 D Asus4 D And if we stand divided, divided we will fall Asus4 D A D But if we stand to gether we shall conquer all G D In the desert, in the city G D In the mountains and in the sea G D In the stories and in the people A D I can hear Aus tralia sing G D Sing Aus tralia, sing Aus tralia, G D Sing Aus stralia, sing Aus stralia G D In the sails on Sydney Harbor D A D I can hear Australia sing Enjoy all. I have a wide variety of popular artist and venues for audio tape trading. Contact me at < LTWU46B@prodigy.com > and I will e-mail my list to you. Ken Reynolds