Redgum - The Last Frontier Chords

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_ [A] _ _ _ [D] There's a corrugated highway leaning [A] north from Port Augusta lined [Bm] with ratted cars [G] that
didn't rate [A] a tow.
_ _ [D] Salt flames out of Pimba and [Bm] your eyes begin to stream onto [F#m] Kinyoona, huddled [C] dusty [A] by the road.
_ _ _ [D] Romantic notions shattered [A] like the tyres that didn't pack it.
[Bm] This has got to be [G] the country's last [A] frontier.
_ _ [D] Where are sports cars next to useless [Bm] running cattle grids and riverbeds?
[G] We drove a van [C] from [A] 1963.
_ _ _ [G] [D] Someone [A] mentioned walkabout [D] and kiss your job [G] goodbye.
_ _ [D] Just to see the country shimmer through [A] the windscreen.
Drinking [G] beer, telling [F#m] stories [D] while the laughter fills [G] the night. _ _
[D] And flex your times behind you like [A] a bad dream. _
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[F#m] [D] You've got a flat on Anzac Highway [A] and Lawson on your shelf.
[Bm] It's a southern cup [G] for air conditioned [A] rage. _
[D] And a homestead's more than just a cheap [Bm] print dangling from a wall.
[G] And mateship's [C] more than lines upon [A] a page. _
[F#m] [G] We went looking for [A] Australia [D] in between the TV [G]
lines.
_ [D] The ABC just couldn't make [A] it real.
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] Colour documentary [D] from a beanbag [G] on the floor never [D] _ shows as much as it [A] conceals.
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_ [A] _ _ _ [D] A stark and glistered Alice [F#m] Springs and a river runs with shame.
[Bm] And you wipe the [G] sheets of bulldung [A] from your eye.
_ _ [D] _ Another country's uniform [Bm] and the mirage it falls apart.
[G] Through the open [C] gap between the [A] truth and lies.
_ [F#m] _ [G] Go and see [A] your country [D] mate, the travel [G] agents scream.
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Politicians sell it hard just [A] for a pastime.
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Signs and [F#m] high white fences [D] hold the land where [G] I belong. _
[D] As if I am in the outback [A] for the last time. _
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[G] For the last time.
_ _ [D] For _ [G] the last time.
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[G] For the last time.
[D] Uh huh. _
[G] For the last time.
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[G] For the last time.
[D] Uh huh. _
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