Chords for The Waifs - From Little Things Big Things Grow (with John Butler & Clare Bowditch) (Track 12 of 13)

_ Just as well _ _
_ _ _ We'd like to invite John Butler on the stage.
We're gonna see a song Johnny B _ _ _
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Claire you might as well come out to _ _
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_ _ How good are the waves? _ _ _ _ _
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All right
_ _ Now we first met John Johnny B here young Johnny B in Fremantle
You called me Johnny in public man
_ _ _ I'll tell you a little story very quickly first time one of the first times we met John we were hanging out in Fremantle and
we went around his house to pick him up for a gig and
_ _ And couldn't really work out which one but there was this sort of dilapidated house under the railway tracks there or the freeway
It was under the freeway
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_ And we struggled up the stairs and there was about ten eviction notices nailed to the front [G] door _ _ _
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Chucking Ollie's up a skate ramp in the lounge room there
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I'm sorry, that's not technical.
You can't actually do Ollie's on a skate ramp.
Are you sure?
Yes, you definitely can
Technically [A#] you're right and technically I was _ _ _ _ _
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_ There's a knife rack in the ceiling right above the chopping block
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This is a little song by two great songwriters Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody
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_ Very honored to be able to _ _ play this [A] song
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[A] Gather around people [C#] _
let me tell you a [E] story _
[A] an eight-year long [C#] story a
[C#m] power and [E] pride
_ [A] British Lord [C#] Lestee
_ _ Vincent [E] Langari
_ _ [A] opposite man
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_ _ [C#m] Opposite sides
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_ _ [A] Bestie was [C#] fat
for [C#m] money in my [E] soul
_ _ [A] Beef was his [C#] business
_ _ [C#m] Broad was his [E] door
_ _ [A] Vincent was [F#m]
lame
[C#m] spoke very [E] little
_ [A] He had no band [C#]
balance.
[C#m] Her dirt was his [E]
flow
_ [A] _ from
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_ [C#m] Things
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Grinji were [F#m] working [C#m] for nothing but [E] rations [A] and once [C#] they had gathered [C#m] the wealth of the [E] land
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And daily [C#] the pressures [C#m] got tighter [E] and tighter _
[A] _ Grinji decided [C#] _
they [C#m] must make a stand
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_ [A] And _ [C#m] they started up _ [E] _ _ _
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[C#m] sat themselves [E] down now
[A] We don't sound like [C#] much but it sure [C#m] got those [E] tongues talking
Back [A] down [C#] at the _ homestead [C#m] and then in the [E] town _ _
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From [A] a little thing
[C#] _
_ [C#m] a big thing
[E] to a
_ [A] Vestiment [C#] said
_ _ [C#m] double your [E] wages
_ _ [A] seven quid a [C#] week
_ [C#m] you're having your hand
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_ _ [A] Vincent [F#m] said uh-uh I'm [C#m] not talking about [E]
wages.
[A] We're sitting right [C#] here
_ till we get our [E] land
_ _ [A] _ Vestiment [D#] roared
and the [C#m] vestiment Vestiment
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can't make you [A] don't stand [D#] a chance
of [C#m] a cinder in [E]
snow _ [A] Vincent weeped
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oh
[C#m] others are _ rising
[A] From _ [G#]
a little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
_ [A] From [F#m] a little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
[A] From a long [C#]
little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
_ [A] From _ [C#]
a long little [C#m] thing
big things grow
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_ _ [A] Then _ [F#] _
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_ _ [A] _ Vincent [F#] Langari
_ [C#m] He boarded [E] an airplane
[A] He landed [C#m] in Sydney Exile [E] alive
_ _ [A] And daily [C#] he went round [C#m] softly speaking [E] his story
[A] To all types [C#] of men
[C#m] From all walks [E] of life
_ [A] _ Vincent [F#] sat down with [C#m] them big [E] politicians
And this [A] affair they [G#] told him
_ [C#m] It's a matter of standing
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_ [A] Let us sort [D#] it out
[C#m] You people [E] are hungry
_ [A] Vincent said [C#] uh-uh
[C#m] We know how [E] to wait
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From a little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
[A] Big _ [F#m] _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ [E] things grow
[A] _ From [C#]
a long little [C#m] thing
big [E] things grow
[A] From a long [C#]
little [C#m] thing
big [E] things _ [A] grow
From a long little thing Vincent Langari
_ _ Turned on an airplane
_ Back to [C#m] his country
Once more to sit [E]
down
[A] And he told [C#m] his people
That the stars keep on turning
[A] We have friends in the [C#] south
_ [C#m] In the cities
[E] In the towns
[A] And eight years [C#m] went by
And long years of waiting
Till [A] one day a tall [C#m]
stranger
_ Appeared in the land
_ And his name was Whitlam
And he came to see him
And his name was Whitlam
And he came with great [E] ceremony
_ [A] And through Vincent's [C#] fingers
_ [C#m] He bought a handful [E] of cement
[A] _ _ [C#] From a long little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
_ [A] From [C#] a long little thing
[C#m] big [E] things grow
[A] From a long _ [C#]
little [C#m] thing
big [E] things grow
[A] From _ [F#m]
a long little [C#m] thing
big [E] things _ [A] grow
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_ _ [A] _ This is [C#m] a story _ of Vincent [E] Lingari.
_ [A] But this is [D#] a story _ [C#m] of something [E] much more.
_ [A] How power [C#m] and privilege cannot move a people
[A] who know where [C#m] they stand and stand in [E] their love.
_ [A] _ _ [F#] From little things, big [E] things grow.
_ [A] From _ [C#]
little things, [C#m] big [E] things grow.
_ [A] _ From [F#] _
little [C#m] things, big [E] things grow.
From [A] little _ [F#m]
things, _ [C#m] big [E] things grow.
_ [A] From _ little _ things, big [Am] things grow. _ _ _ _ _
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Let's thank John Butler, Claire Bowditch. _
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_ Thanks for listening.
We're The Waves and John Butler will be on next. _ _