Sing Australia
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#From: LTWU46B@prodigy.com (MR KEN L REYNOLDS)
#Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:38:16, -0500
#Subject: CRD:_sing_australia_by John Denver
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#album: Higher Ground
#song: Sing Australia
#artist: John Denver
#transcribed: Ken Reynolds
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#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.
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#Sing Australia
#John Denver (klr)
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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.
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Ken Reynolds