Chords for Peter Allen Footage 'Tenterfield Saddler' sung by Tim Freedman (Whitlams)
Tempo:
128.4 bpm
Chords used:
C
F
Bb
Dm
Gm
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
When my baby smiles at me I go to [Bb] Rio, De Janeiro, I'm a salsa fellow.
[F] When my baby smiles at me the [Am] sun [D] aligns up [Bb] my life and [Gm] I am free [C] at last.
[Eb] [F] What a [Bb] blessing.
I was just taken by the sheer force of his personality.
[B]
[Gb] I'm sure that middle Australia just saw his live [Ebm] performances as colour and movement,
but in fact it was [B] unabashed and delighted camp.
You know, Peter would enter [Ebm] stage left doing the can-can
and somehow remain off the Australian poof-de-radar.
I don't know how he [B] did it.
I will make love, now I'm not the type to let permission easily.
You [D] know that's just not me, [B] but I'd pay to tell [Ab] what I love.
[Db] I think that audiences [Ab] now really require more than [F] just someone getting up and singing someone else's song.
[Db] I think [Bb] that they like to know more [Ab] about you and if you write the song it's [F] usually [Abm] a
Well, in one of my songs I say,
if you like who I am now that's only a reflection of yourself, [Ab] whatever that means.
[F] Time [C] is a travel [Dm] on a gentle [C] field saddle, I'll turn your head.
Peter Allen was born a boy of the bush, but would never fit the outback mould.
[F] Yet he wrote one of the most evocative odes to the Australian outback hero.
[C] Tenterfield [F] Saddler was a tribute to his grandfather and a [C] lament for his father,
who turned his back [Dm] on the life of the rural battler.
[Bb] Something was wrong, [F] it's easier to drink than [C] go crazy.
[Bb] I always found it amazing that this [C] exotic creature came from Tenterfield.
If you've driven up the New England Highway [Fm] you'll know what I'm saying.
It [Am] always gives me hope when I drive around Australia looking at the van and looking at the
[F] no trees and no blacks and the milk and the meat that there could be a little Peter Allen
in one of those [C] country towns practising his [Dm] tap dancing on the veranda, [C] you know.
[F] Grandson of George, he's been [C] all round the [Db] world, he [Dm] lives in no special place.
[D] [Dm] [Bb] Changed his last name [F] and he married a girl [Am] with an interesting face.
[D]
[Bb] He'd almost forgotten them [Cm] [Bb] both, because in the [Am] life that he leads,
[Dm]
there's [Bb] nowhere for George and his [C] wife [Bb] or son with [C] his gun to belong.
[Dm]
[Gm] Except in [C] this song, [F] time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, Tenterfield [C] Saddler, [Gm] turn [C] your head [G]
[C] [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, he's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
[C]
[Dm] [C] [F] Time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, [C] Tenterfield Saddler, [Gm] turn your head [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, [C]
there's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
[F] When my baby smiles at me the [Am] sun [D] aligns up [Bb] my life and [Gm] I am free [C] at last.
[Eb] [F] What a [Bb] blessing.
I was just taken by the sheer force of his personality.
[B]
[Gb] I'm sure that middle Australia just saw his live [Ebm] performances as colour and movement,
but in fact it was [B] unabashed and delighted camp.
You know, Peter would enter [Ebm] stage left doing the can-can
and somehow remain off the Australian poof-de-radar.
I don't know how he [B] did it.
I will make love, now I'm not the type to let permission easily.
You [D] know that's just not me, [B] but I'd pay to tell [Ab] what I love.
[Db] I think that audiences [Ab] now really require more than [F] just someone getting up and singing someone else's song.
[Db] I think [Bb] that they like to know more [Ab] about you and if you write the song it's [F] usually [Abm] a
Well, in one of my songs I say,
if you like who I am now that's only a reflection of yourself, [Ab] whatever that means.
[F] Time [C] is a travel [Dm] on a gentle [C] field saddle, I'll turn your head.
Peter Allen was born a boy of the bush, but would never fit the outback mould.
[F] Yet he wrote one of the most evocative odes to the Australian outback hero.
[C] Tenterfield [F] Saddler was a tribute to his grandfather and a [C] lament for his father,
who turned his back [Dm] on the life of the rural battler.
[Bb] Something was wrong, [F] it's easier to drink than [C] go crazy.
[Bb] I always found it amazing that this [C] exotic creature came from Tenterfield.
If you've driven up the New England Highway [Fm] you'll know what I'm saying.
It [Am] always gives me hope when I drive around Australia looking at the van and looking at the
[F] no trees and no blacks and the milk and the meat that there could be a little Peter Allen
in one of those [C] country towns practising his [Dm] tap dancing on the veranda, [C] you know.
[F] Grandson of George, he's been [C] all round the [Db] world, he [Dm] lives in no special place.
[D] [Dm] [Bb] Changed his last name [F] and he married a girl [Am] with an interesting face.
[D]
[Bb] He'd almost forgotten them [Cm] [Bb] both, because in the [Am] life that he leads,
[Dm]
there's [Bb] nowhere for George and his [C] wife [Bb] or son with [C] his gun to belong.
[Dm]
[Gm] Except in [C] this song, [F] time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, Tenterfield [C] Saddler, [Gm] turn [C] your head [G]
[C] [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, he's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
[C]
[Dm] [C] [F] Time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, [C] Tenterfield Saddler, [Gm] turn your head [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, [C]
there's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
Key:
C
F
Bb
Dm
Gm
C
F
Bb
_ When my baby smiles at me I go to [Bb] Rio, De Janeiro, I'm a salsa fellow.
[F] _ When my baby smiles at me the [Am] sun [D] aligns up [Bb] my life and [Gm] I am free [C] at last.
[Eb] _ [F] What a [Bb] blessing.
I was just taken by the sheer force of his personality.
[B] _ _
[Gb] I'm sure that middle Australia just saw his live [Ebm] performances as colour and movement,
but in fact it was _ [B] unabashed and delighted camp.
You know, Peter would enter [Ebm] stage left doing the can-can
and somehow remain off the Australian poof-de-radar.
I don't know how he [B] did it.
I will make love, now I'm not the type to let _ _ _ permission easily.
You [D] know that's just not me, [B] but I'd pay to tell _ _ _ _ [Ab] what I love.
_ _ [Db] I think that audiences [Ab] now really require more than [F] just someone getting up and singing someone else's song.
[Db] _ _ _ I think [Bb] that they like to know more [Ab] about you and if you write the song it's [F] usually [Abm] a_
Well, in one of my songs I say,
if you like who I am now that's only a reflection of yourself, [Ab] whatever that means.
_ [F] _ Time [C] is a travel [Dm] on a gentle [C] field saddle, I'll turn your head. _ _ _ _
_ Peter Allen was born a boy of the bush, but would never fit the outback mould.
[F] Yet he wrote one of the most evocative odes to the Australian outback hero.
[C] _ _ Tenterfield [F] Saddler was a tribute to his grandfather and a [C] lament for his father,
who turned his back [Dm] on the life of the rural battler.
_ _ [Bb] Something was wrong, [F] it's easier to drink than [C] go crazy.
_ _ _ [Bb] I always found it amazing that this [C] exotic creature came from Tenterfield.
If you've driven up the New England Highway [Fm] you'll know what I'm saying.
_ _ It [Am] always gives me hope when I drive around Australia looking at the van and looking at the_
[F] no trees and no blacks and the milk and the meat that there could be a little Peter Allen
in one of those [C] country towns practising his [Dm] tap dancing on the veranda, [C] you know. _
[F] _ Grandson of George, he's been [C] all round the [Db] world, he [Dm] lives in no special place. _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Bb] Changed his last name [F] and he married a girl _ [Am] with an interesting face.
[D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] He'd almost forgotten them [Cm] _ [Bb] both, because in the [Am] life that he leads,
[Dm] _ _
there's [Bb] nowhere for George and his [C] wife _ [Bb] or son with [C] his gun to belong.
[Dm] _ _
_ [Gm] Except in [C] this song, [F] time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, Tenterfield [C] Saddler, [Gm] turn [C] your head [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, _ he's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
[C] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ Time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, _ [C] Tenterfield Saddler, [Gm] turn your head _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, [C] _
there's a [F] kangaroo up ahead. _
[F] _ When my baby smiles at me the [Am] sun [D] aligns up [Bb] my life and [Gm] I am free [C] at last.
[Eb] _ [F] What a [Bb] blessing.
I was just taken by the sheer force of his personality.
[B] _ _
[Gb] I'm sure that middle Australia just saw his live [Ebm] performances as colour and movement,
but in fact it was _ [B] unabashed and delighted camp.
You know, Peter would enter [Ebm] stage left doing the can-can
and somehow remain off the Australian poof-de-radar.
I don't know how he [B] did it.
I will make love, now I'm not the type to let _ _ _ permission easily.
You [D] know that's just not me, [B] but I'd pay to tell _ _ _ _ [Ab] what I love.
_ _ [Db] I think that audiences [Ab] now really require more than [F] just someone getting up and singing someone else's song.
[Db] _ _ _ I think [Bb] that they like to know more [Ab] about you and if you write the song it's [F] usually [Abm] a_
Well, in one of my songs I say,
if you like who I am now that's only a reflection of yourself, [Ab] whatever that means.
_ [F] _ Time [C] is a travel [Dm] on a gentle [C] field saddle, I'll turn your head. _ _ _ _
_ Peter Allen was born a boy of the bush, but would never fit the outback mould.
[F] Yet he wrote one of the most evocative odes to the Australian outback hero.
[C] _ _ Tenterfield [F] Saddler was a tribute to his grandfather and a [C] lament for his father,
who turned his back [Dm] on the life of the rural battler.
_ _ [Bb] Something was wrong, [F] it's easier to drink than [C] go crazy.
_ _ _ [Bb] I always found it amazing that this [C] exotic creature came from Tenterfield.
If you've driven up the New England Highway [Fm] you'll know what I'm saying.
_ _ It [Am] always gives me hope when I drive around Australia looking at the van and looking at the_
[F] no trees and no blacks and the milk and the meat that there could be a little Peter Allen
in one of those [C] country towns practising his [Dm] tap dancing on the veranda, [C] you know. _
[F] _ Grandson of George, he's been [C] all round the [Db] world, he [Dm] lives in no special place. _
[D] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [Bb] Changed his last name [F] and he married a girl _ [Am] with an interesting face.
[D] _ _ _ _ _
[Bb] He'd almost forgotten them [Cm] _ [Bb] both, because in the [Am] life that he leads,
[Dm] _ _
there's [Bb] nowhere for George and his [C] wife _ [Bb] or son with [C] his gun to belong.
[Dm] _ _
_ [Gm] Except in [C] this song, [F] time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, Tenterfield [C] Saddler, [Gm] turn [C] your head [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, _ he's a [F] kangaroo up ahead.
[C] _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ Time [C] is a [Dm] traveller, _ [C] Tenterfield Saddler, [Gm] turn your head _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] right again.
Jackaroo, [C] _
there's a [F] kangaroo up ahead. _
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