Slim Dusty

Plains Of Peppimenarti

Slim Dusty


Tom: D

D      A D
Yodel

[Verse]
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Now I've been around Australia
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And I've travelled everywhere
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But there's one place I really like to go
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Where the land is big and wide
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And tall dark ringers ride

On the plains of Peppimenarti
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Where the old Moyle River flows

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Tough riders there of course
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In a truck or on a horse
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And they'll really teach you things you didn't know
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It's excitement to the full
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If you're out there chasing bulls

By the plains of Peppimenarti
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Where the old Moyle River flows

[Chorus]
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And the Kangaroo still bounds
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On that rough and rugged ground
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The ant hills and the old pandanas grow
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Yes and everyday's a Sunday
            G
If you're catching Barramundi
         D
By the plains of Peppimenarti
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Where the old Moyle River flows

[Instrumental]
D A D  D A D  G D A D
Yodel  Yodel

[Verse]
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Now the men out on the stock camps
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Are the finest riders known
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And they'll work four weeks without a break or spell
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They're the back bone of our beef steaks
            G             D
And I've mentioned this before

And it's a story that I'm
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Always proud to tell

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May the march of time never
      G              D
Ever bring to many changes
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To a way of life you people love and prize
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May the years ahead be good ones
         G                D
And you never lose your customs

With old Peppimenarti Hill
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Looking down so old and wise