Ted Chords by Redgum
Tempo:
103.15 bpm
Chords used:
D
C
Em
E
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[E] [D]
[B] [D] [Em] [D]
[E]
On a back [B] lock down Salisbury Plains Ted [D] was born in [E] 1895
[C] Frost from the loins on [G] to rust and soil and the cord was cut [Bm] with a scythe
He said, people there are [B] city folk today [A] and they couldn't tell shit [Em] was right
[C] A romaning proper [D] stoving poles there's no [Em] regrets when the hillary [C] rhymes
That [D] earth is in me [Bm] bones, [E] he giddy as fit at first
Well watched [D] the shilling to fight [B] the hum, [C] mut up to his crotch [G] in [D] flams
And the gas eating at [Bm] his lungs
[Em] He said me best mate [B] died hanging on the barbed [D] wire and when the [E] attack was through
[G] We took some prisoners [D] to HQ, shared a [Em] fag and a yarn or [C] two
[G] They were the same as me and [Em] you
[C] I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful [D] question that is my boy [C] I've lived it for 83 years
[Em] See [Bm]
[Em] him every [B] year on a handsack day spilling beers down the [E] Rex Hotel
[C] He'd laugh with his mates go deep in [G] thought where he went [Bm] even he couldn't tell
[E] He said king and [Bm] country, cock and bull [A] we fought just to [Em] survive
The [G] anger might have [D] faded still this feeling grabs me deep [C] inside
I guess you could [Em] call it pride
With the navvy on the line and the [D] Nullarbor depression [Em] left with scars
[C] Heaving coal steel [G] rails in the burning sun freezing [Bm] beneath the stars
He [E] said [Em] if you escape the sun so [A] could you had a hell of a [G] price to pay
[C] And when [G] time flow lay in open [D] wound I'd blow me dough on a [C] Saturday
Drink the pain [Em] away
[C] And I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful question that is my boy I've lived it for 83 years
[E] On [Em] Sunday I'd sit and [A] talk over a double coal waste end
[C] Of what was gained and what was lost and would never [D] come again
[Em] He said money you know it comes and [A] goes on booze and rent and fags
[C] You can make a fortune on overtime and lose it all [D] on the nags
[E] But years of toil with a bunch of mates [A] you know it leaves you satisfied
[C] Though we never moved a mountain [Am] we sure gave [D] it a try
[Em] Picked the wheat from the [D] chaff and the steel from [C] the skirp and the honest [G] man from a lyre
If [C] wisdom came by other names
He said dead [D] with a [E] fire
[D]
[E] [B]
And on the day that old Ted died [D] no one would have [B] known
[C] Buried in a [D] pawpuss plate he lived and died [Bm] alone
[B] And [Em] the 727's were caught overhead [D] with a drone of the [E] angry road
[C] This seemed a [G] cause for [D] just a while
And [G] the silence was [D] heard [C] around for miles
And [G] the [D] silence was heard for miles
[Em] [B] [D]
[Em]
[E]
[N]
[B] [D] [Em] [D]
[E]
On a back [B] lock down Salisbury Plains Ted [D] was born in [E] 1895
[C] Frost from the loins on [G] to rust and soil and the cord was cut [Bm] with a scythe
He said, people there are [B] city folk today [A] and they couldn't tell shit [Em] was right
[C] A romaning proper [D] stoving poles there's no [Em] regrets when the hillary [C] rhymes
That [D] earth is in me [Bm] bones, [E] he giddy as fit at first
Well watched [D] the shilling to fight [B] the hum, [C] mut up to his crotch [G] in [D] flams
And the gas eating at [Bm] his lungs
[Em] He said me best mate [B] died hanging on the barbed [D] wire and when the [E] attack was through
[G] We took some prisoners [D] to HQ, shared a [Em] fag and a yarn or [C] two
[G] They were the same as me and [Em] you
[C] I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful [D] question that is my boy [C] I've lived it for 83 years
[Em] See [Bm]
[Em] him every [B] year on a handsack day spilling beers down the [E] Rex Hotel
[C] He'd laugh with his mates go deep in [G] thought where he went [Bm] even he couldn't tell
[E] He said king and [Bm] country, cock and bull [A] we fought just to [Em] survive
The [G] anger might have [D] faded still this feeling grabs me deep [C] inside
I guess you could [Em] call it pride
With the navvy on the line and the [D] Nullarbor depression [Em] left with scars
[C] Heaving coal steel [G] rails in the burning sun freezing [Bm] beneath the stars
He [E] said [Em] if you escape the sun so [A] could you had a hell of a [G] price to pay
[C] And when [G] time flow lay in open [D] wound I'd blow me dough on a [C] Saturday
Drink the pain [Em] away
[C] And I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful question that is my boy I've lived it for 83 years
[E] On [Em] Sunday I'd sit and [A] talk over a double coal waste end
[C] Of what was gained and what was lost and would never [D] come again
[Em] He said money you know it comes and [A] goes on booze and rent and fags
[C] You can make a fortune on overtime and lose it all [D] on the nags
[E] But years of toil with a bunch of mates [A] you know it leaves you satisfied
[C] Though we never moved a mountain [Am] we sure gave [D] it a try
[Em] Picked the wheat from the [D] chaff and the steel from [C] the skirp and the honest [G] man from a lyre
If [C] wisdom came by other names
He said dead [D] with a [E] fire
[D]
[E] [B]
And on the day that old Ted died [D] no one would have [B] known
[C] Buried in a [D] pawpuss plate he lived and died [Bm] alone
[B] And [Em] the 727's were caught overhead [D] with a drone of the [E] angry road
[C] This seemed a [G] cause for [D] just a while
And [G] the silence was [D] heard [C] around for miles
And [G] the [D] silence was heard for miles
[Em] [B] [D]
[Em]
[E]
[N]
Key:
D
C
Em
E
G
D
C
Em
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
On a back [B] lock down Salisbury Plains Ted [D] was born in [E] 1895
[C] Frost from the loins on [G] to rust and soil and the cord was cut [Bm] with a scythe
He said, people there are [B] city folk today [A] and they couldn't tell shit [Em] was right
[C] A romaning proper [D] stoving poles there's no [Em] regrets when the hillary [C] _ rhymes
That [D] earth is in me [Bm] bones, _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] he giddy as fit at first
Well watched [D] the shilling to fight [B] the hum, [C] mut up to his crotch [G] in [D] flams
And the gas eating at [Bm] his lungs
_ [Em] He said me best mate [B] died hanging on the barbed [D] wire and when the [E] attack was through
[G] We took some prisoners [D] to HQ, shared a [Em] fag and a yarn or [C] two
_ [G] They were the same as me and [Em] you
[C] I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful [D] question that is my boy [C] I've lived it for 83 years
[Em] See [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] him every [B] year on a handsack day spilling beers down the [E] Rex Hotel
[C] He'd laugh with his mates go deep in [G] thought where he went [Bm] even he couldn't tell
_ [E] He said king and [Bm] country, cock and bull [A] we fought just to [Em] survive
The [G] anger might have [D] faded still this feeling grabs me deep [C] inside _
I guess you could [Em] call it pride
With _ _ _ the navvy on the line and the [D] Nullarbor depression [Em] left with scars
[C] Heaving coal steel [G] rails in the burning sun freezing [Bm] beneath the stars
He [E] said [Em] if you escape the sun so [A] could you had a hell of a [G] price to pay
[C] And when [G] time flow lay in open [D] wound I'd blow me dough on a [C] Saturday _ _
Drink the pain [Em] away
[C] And I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful question that is my boy I've lived it for 83 years
[E] On _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] Sunday I'd sit and [A] talk over a double coal waste end
[C] Of what was gained and what was lost and would never [D] come again
[Em] He said money you know it comes and [A] goes on booze and rent and fags
[C] You can make a fortune on overtime and lose it all [D] on the nags
[E] But years of toil with a bunch of mates [A] you know it leaves you satisfied
[C] Though we never moved a mountain [Am] we sure gave [D] it a try
_ [Em] Picked the wheat from the [D] chaff and the steel from [C] the skirp and the honest [G] man from a lyre
If [C] wisdom came by other _ _ names
He said dead [D] with a [E] fire _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
And on the day that old Ted died [D] no one would have [B] known _
[C] Buried in a [D] pawpuss plate he lived and died [Bm] alone
[B] And [Em] the 727's were caught overhead [D] with a drone of the [E] angry road
[C] This seemed a [G] cause for [D] just a while
And [G] the silence was [D] heard [C] around for miles
_ _ _ And [G] the [D] silence was heard for miles _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
On a back [B] lock down Salisbury Plains Ted [D] was born in [E] 1895
[C] Frost from the loins on [G] to rust and soil and the cord was cut [Bm] with a scythe
He said, people there are [B] city folk today [A] and they couldn't tell shit [Em] was right
[C] A romaning proper [D] stoving poles there's no [Em] regrets when the hillary [C] _ rhymes
That [D] earth is in me [Bm] bones, _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] he giddy as fit at first
Well watched [D] the shilling to fight [B] the hum, [C] mut up to his crotch [G] in [D] flams
And the gas eating at [Bm] his lungs
_ [Em] He said me best mate [B] died hanging on the barbed [D] wire and when the [E] attack was through
[G] We took some prisoners [D] to HQ, shared a [Em] fag and a yarn or [C] two
_ [G] They were the same as me and [Em] you
[C] I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful [D] question that is my boy [C] I've lived it for 83 years
[Em] See [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] him every [B] year on a handsack day spilling beers down the [E] Rex Hotel
[C] He'd laugh with his mates go deep in [G] thought where he went [Bm] even he couldn't tell
_ [E] He said king and [Bm] country, cock and bull [A] we fought just to [Em] survive
The [G] anger might have [D] faded still this feeling grabs me deep [C] inside _
I guess you could [Em] call it pride
With _ _ _ the navvy on the line and the [D] Nullarbor depression [Em] left with scars
[C] Heaving coal steel [G] rails in the burning sun freezing [Bm] beneath the stars
He [E] said [Em] if you escape the sun so [A] could you had a hell of a [G] price to pay
[C] And when [G] time flow lay in open [D] wound I'd blow me dough on a [C] Saturday _ _
Drink the pain [Em] away
[C] And I asked old Ted what history meant as he sharpened his [Em] hedging shears
[C] What a grateful question that is my boy I've lived it for 83 years
[E] On _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] Sunday I'd sit and [A] talk over a double coal waste end
[C] Of what was gained and what was lost and would never [D] come again
[Em] He said money you know it comes and [A] goes on booze and rent and fags
[C] You can make a fortune on overtime and lose it all [D] on the nags
[E] But years of toil with a bunch of mates [A] you know it leaves you satisfied
[C] Though we never moved a mountain [Am] we sure gave [D] it a try
_ [Em] Picked the wheat from the [D] chaff and the steel from [C] the skirp and the honest [G] man from a lyre
If [C] wisdom came by other _ _ names
He said dead [D] with a [E] fire _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
And on the day that old Ted died [D] no one would have [B] known _
[C] Buried in a [D] pawpuss plate he lived and died [Bm] alone
[B] And [Em] the 727's were caught overhead [D] with a drone of the [E] angry road
[C] This seemed a [G] cause for [D] just a while
And [G] the silence was [D] heard [C] around for miles
_ _ _ And [G] the [D] silence was heard for miles _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _