John Denver

Sing Australia

John Denver


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I come 
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to 
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Australia as many 
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people 
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do
To  see the 
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old 
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Koala, hitch a ride on a 
Bm 
kanga 
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roo
To 
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hear some 
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body 
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call me mate, and call some 
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body 
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blue
To hear an 
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abo 
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rigine play a 
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diggerid 
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do

            Asus4        D                       Asus4           D
Some of you  came as  prisoners, two centu  ries 
ago
            Asus4        D                                     Bm
Some of you  came as  Kings and Queens, your blessings 
      A
to be  stow
D            Asus4             D 
 Some of you  stand all  swelled with pride
          Asus4           D
Some with  shattered  wings
              Asus4           D                          A
But all of us  come with  open hearts to hear Aus 
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tralia  sing

       G                D
In the [G] desert, in the  city
       G                     D
In the [G] mountains and in the  sea
       G                    D
In the [G] stories and in the  people
                A        D
I can  hear Aus  tralia  sing

D         Asus4      D                     Asus4          D
 Waltzing  Ma  tilda, the men of  Galli  poli
       Asus4       D                          Bm        A
Clancy  of the  overflow and Crocodile  Dun  dee
    D        Asus4       D                                 Asus4
The  myth of  all  creation, the teaching  of 
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Baia  me
             Asus4       D                      A        D
The  legends  of the  dreamtime, for all  eter  nity

            Asus4     D                        Asus4           D     
And in this  cele  bration, a brief two  hundred 
years
            Asus4        D                        Bm 
The cost to  build a  nation, in blood and  sweat and
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tears
D         Asus4      D                    Asus4           D
And if we  stand  divided, divided  we will 
fall
          Asus4         D                   A           D
But if we  stand to  gether we shall  conquer  all

       G                D
In the [G] desert, in the  city
       G                     D
In the [G] mountains and in the  sea
       G                    D
In the [G] stories and in the  people
                A        D
I can  hear Aus  tralia  sing

         G                  D
Sing Aus [G] tralia, sing Aus  tralia,
         G                   D
Sing Aus [G] stralia, sing Aus  stralia
       G                 D
In the [G] sails on Sydney  Harbor
      D     A             D
I can  hear  Australia  sing

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