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Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black
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Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack
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Red dust and hawks in the wind out back
G7 C
And here I am at the Isa
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[Verse 2]
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What do you do in a town like the Isa
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Retrenched at 50 become an old miser
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Drink yourself blind so you're none the wiser
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Sit at home with the race form and whinge
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Just over the hill in his own backyard
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The landscape becomes a picture postcard
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Where the colours are soft but the life is hard
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On the stations here at the Isa
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[Verse 3]
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Tonight's the night of the rodeo ball
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Before riders and bull and horses stand tall
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While out in the park some black people sprawl
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And share their money on flagons
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There's so much more to be understood
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Before coming out here like Robin Hood
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The do-gooders do more harm than good
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Without really knowing the Isa
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[Verse 4]
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Through the Leichhardt East Where fools gold flashes
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Fossick around for Maltese Crosses
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Flog them off to the tourist buses
G C
See ghost gums under the moon
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Some really battle some make do
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The luckier ones make a quid and pull through
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Some perch at the bar like a caged cockatoo
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But that's nothing new at the Isa
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[Verse 5]
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And it takes a special kind of girl
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To stay out here in this rugged world
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Keep your dignity when the oathes are hurled
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I pay my respects to you
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And I'll raise my glass to an outback town
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To that weathered spirit that won't back down
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It takes the courage of a rodeo clown
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To stick it out at the Isa
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[Verse 6]
C F
Big galvanised roofs and monster pipes black
G7 C
Pink and white clouds from a chimney stack
C F
Red dust and hawks in the wind out back
G7 C
And here I am at the Isa
[Outro]
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Never thought I'd return to this lonely track
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And here I am back at the Isa
