Talk Of The Town Chords by Shane Howard

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_ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] The sun goes down on a cloudless sky
The tide is in and the water's high
The [F] fishermen are back [C] in town
_ Tonight they'll [G] either [C] drink or drown
[F] Wait for rain to [C] come down
Yeah, wait [F] for rain all [C] year round
It's [G] the talk of [Dm] the town
[F] _
What's going [C] down?
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[F] _ [C] If you're ever in [F] that Gulf [C] country _ _
_ Strangest land [G] you [C] ever see _
The sun's so hot [F] the [C] ground's on fire _ _
Thermometer [G] won't go [C] no higher
Wait [F] for rain to [C] come down
Yeah, wait [F] for rain all [C] year round
It's [G] the talk of [Dm] the town
[F] What's [C] going down? _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [C] And if you want to lose [F] those [C] lonely blues
You best put on [G] your dancing [C] shoes
The ringers make the [F] [C] water whole
_ Tonight the town will [G] rock [C] and roll
Wait [F] for rain to [C] come down
Yeah, wait [F] for rain all [C] year round
It's [G] the talk of [F] the town
Yeah, what's [C] going down?
[F] _ _ [C] Yeah, [Am] [F] yeah
_ Murray _ [C] _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [F] _
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[F] _ _ [C] know [F] this [C] ancient land _
_ Like the back [G] of [C] his own hand
You see the [F] broker [C] on the plane _ _
Thousands [G] dancing, bring [C] the rain
[F] And that rain _ [C] coming down
Yeah, hear [F] that rain
What a [C] mighty sound
_ [G] It's the talk of [F] the town
What's [C] going down?
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ [C] The pelican, the cockatoo
_ The wallaby [G] and the [C] kangaroo
The broker and the _ jabberoo
The [G] barramundi and the [C] old crock too
You see [F] that rain _ [C] coming down
Yeah, hear [F] that rain
It's got a [C] mighty sound
_ [G] It's the talk _ [F] of the town
Yeah, what's [C] going down?
[F] _ _ [C] _ _
Yeah, [F] hear that rain _ [C] coming down
Ain't that [F] too much rain?
We'll [C] be drowned
_ [G] It's the talk _ [Dm] of the town
[F] Yeah, what's [C] going down?
[F] It's [C] coming down [F] on [C] the town
[F] _ [C] Falling down, [F] what [C] a sound
[F] _ [C] Yeah, yeah
_ Where's the ground?
_ [F] We'll [C] be drowned _
[F] It's [C] the town
[F] _ [C] Woo-hoo-hoo
[F] Woo [C]-hoo-hoo
[F] Yeah, [C] yeah
[F] Wow, _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Am] look, that's rough and tough and from the bush, that version too
Thank you Waterford, thank you Ireland, thank you