Chords for On Every Anzac Day - John Schumann & Hugh McDonald

[G] _ [C] And [A] he was very _ keen to make sure that the service of Indigenous men and women _ _ was commemorated [G] too.
[Abm]
And he thought the good way to do this [G] was with a song.
[Dbm] _
_ He [Db] said to me, okay, I want [A] you to focus on the First World War, but I also [Abm] want you to _
let everybody know [Gb] that [N] Indigenous men and women have served _ _ _ _ Australia in all conflicts,
from the [Abm] Boer War right through to the [B] present day in Iraq.
[G] And I want it to be as big as I was [Abm] only 19, no pressure. _ _ _
[Eb] So anyway, it was quite a hard song to write [Em] because _ [Eb] I [Abm] had to find [Am] some sort of narrative
perspective [G] on this.
_ _ [A] Anyway, I came to Huey [Em] with [Abm] _ [A] the guts of the song and [Ab] we nailed it _ [B]
together.
He [G] produced it.
And [N] this is the acoustic version of On [C] Every [N] Angel.
There _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ are ghosts and [G] memories loitering still in the [C] corridors of time.
_ And there's sorrows, moments, [G] stories _ [C] in the barracks of my mind.
_ But I'm with him still [G] in the trenches and I can [C] see his dark brown eyes.
_ And his courage gave [G] me courage.
I [F] was sure he was going to die.
_ And I asked him once [G] why he volunteered [C] for that hellhole [F] so far away.
_ _ [C]
To fight someone [Am] _ else's king [F] and the land they took [G] away.
_ _ [C] Said one invading [G] mob's too many.
[C] _
Then he walked [F] away.
_ [C] And I lost him in the [G] crowds waving flags on the side of [F] the road.
[C] _ Like every _ angel's day.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Murray Bridge, [G] _ Mundra Villa, _ [C] _
_ Narracourt [F] and Perth.
[C] _
First [G] Australian station hands, [F] there were shearers, gangers, clans.
_ [C] There was no black [G] and there was no white.
[C] Just the dirty khaki [F] brown.
_ _ [C] Turn on our [Em] upturned slouch hat, [F] grim flee or war rising sun. _ _ _
Soldiers, [G] brothers, all Australians, [C] we had no [F] time for race.
_ _ [C]
Bullets were winding [Am] past our heads, [C] we were all just [G] shades of grey.
_ And [C] he kept his medals in [G] a box in a drawer, [C] kept them well [F] tucked away.
_ _ [C] He'd pull them out, put [G] them on, put them back again.
_ [F] _
_ [C] _ On every _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ Anzac [F]
day.
_ _ _ _ _ [Am] And I'm a tears on [G] a twang as _ [B] [C] Tyrell from Selma all day.
_ [Am] And I'm his [F] army for a time [G] from Longsend, Dispersal Bay.
_ [Am] To Murray Creek, [G] the _ Capulet, [F] the Rar [C] and the _ Solomons. _ _
Passchendaele, Matt Britain, [G] Tarracan.
They were [F]
there, _ [C] first Australian. _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ [G] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [C]
When the show [G] was over, we made [C] it back to Australia's [F] shores.
_ [C] From Posse's, _ [G] _ Pearlwood, _ [F]
Benghazi, _ Fremecore.
_ And [C] we drifted [G] back in through our lives and [C] we all tried to hide the [F] scars.
_ [C] The tears and fears [A] and terrors that [F] still tracked us down the years.
_ And he tried to join [G] the _ RSL but [C] the bastards wouldn't [F] let him in.
_ _ [C]
They didn't see [A] his soldier, just [F] the first display.
[G] _ _ _ And [C] I wonder what it [G] was that we fought for, [C] what it was we [F] gave away.
_ [C] Just reconciliation, [G] stupid man.
_ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ On every Anzac, every _ [G] Anzac, every _ [C] Anzac, every [F] Anzac _ day.
[C] _
_ _ [G] On every [F] Anzac day.
_ _ _ [C] _ When the sun goes down [G] it's evening _ [C] and the dawn lights [F] up the sky.
_ [C] Do you remember those first [D] Australians _ [F] who joined and fought and died?
_ [C] From the missions, Bush [G] and the station, country, [C] the towns, Torres [F] Strait. _ _
[C] Do you remember the [G] fighting, first Australian? _
[F] And [C] _ on every Anzac, every _ [G] Anzac, every _ [C] Anzac, every _ Anzac _ day.
_ _ _ [G] On every [F] Anzac night.
_ On every [C] Anzac, every _ [G] Anzac, every [C] Anzac, every [F] Anzac _ [C] day.
_ _ _ [G] _ I'm in three yards, [F] I'm playing.
_ [C] I'm in three yards, I'm playing.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _