Chords for Men At Work - Down Under | Top 2000 a gogo

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[Bm] I think that [F#] Australia was a little bit ahead of the curve [A] in terms of videos
because I think people were making videos then.
I think MTV at that point
had about four [Bm] and they just [A] played them over and over again we were lucky [G] enough
to be one of those four.
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[Bm] _ _ _ [A] This is [E] kind of my favorite parts of Melbourne for sure.
[Em] We have the Palais [Bm] Theatre over here which has [A] been here for ages.
We have [Bm] Luna Park.
This [F#] is the Esplanade Hotel.
[A] We played [G] here around
1881 or something like that.
[F] I think this is probably Melbourne's most famous rock [F] bar.
_ Fantastic place.
[G] Sydney has its places as well but I think Melbourne was always
known as being the most musical [N] town if you like.
So for men at work and for the
musician Colin Haynes, St Kilda is important.
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_ [B] _ _ _ Good afternoon.
Australia too has done [Bm] the impossible.
It's [E] won the America's Cup.
The trophy [A] that had never been lost by the United States in its [E] [Bm] 132 year
history.
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It's all [B] happening here as Australia too comes back to dock.
An
extraordinary moment in Australian sporting history.
[D] Wives, girlfriends,
parents, [A] children and [E] politicians struggled through the pack to touch the
hems [D#] of these new Aussie heroes.
[N] It was a hit and then a year later the
_ America's Cup was won by Australia so _ John Boutram who was the skipper of
that boat he adopted Down Under as the official theme song.
People thought we
wrote the song for the America's Cup but [C] we didn't.
They just [G] adopted the song.
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[Bm] The big thing it was [C#] almost like a [N] gaining some kind of_
it enhanced [D#] _
the
Australian identity because we know [D] that was like well we won this yacht race.
But people other parts of the world you know didn't give a fuck because they
never heard [D] of the America's Cup.
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_ [A] _ _ [Bm] _ At [C#] the end of the day it ended up being a [F] beer drinking song and _ people_
it
wasn't meant to be particularly a song about waving the flag you know.
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was a lot more of a _ [D#] statement about overdevelopment and the desecration of
the country and the [A] loss of spirit for short-term gains and all that
[G] kind of stuff.
That's really what the [A] song was about. _ _
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[A] _ You [A] know there was all this kind of [Bm] symbolism in it [F] like at the end there
was [N] like this road case which was supposed to symbolize a coffin which was
again supposed to symbolize the death of the country the death of Australia you
[D] know because there was something about [Bm] something at the end of innocence [A] or the
end of the naivety or something or other and all of [B] a sudden we're in the world
of [A] real estate developers and unscrupulous [Bm] multinationals who are
going [A] to in a sense destroy the spirit [B] of the country.
But it is
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ultimately a song about celebration though [Bm] _ because it is [D] celebrating this
place because there's a lot to celebrate about [B] this country because it truly is
an [A] awesome place.
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