Tom: E minor•
Intro 1
Em
D
Em
C
Verse 1
D
Em
Swarthy lean and proud
Am
D
Aloof in the mainland crowd
G
She loved his quiet laughter
Verse 2
D
Em
Like a boy he'd shrug and grin
C
G
Beach stretched wide at Port Mackay
Am
D
With dreams upon the wind
Verse 3
C
D
He wore her name in a rose tattoo
G
C
Em
Am
Long weekends of gins and lime
G
C
She lived in Cairns made
D
G
plans to move
Em
Am
Checkout girl part- time
G
C
And rumour said there's
Am
D
You can make your future here
Verse 4
C
G
A two roomed five row shelter
D
Em
Empty hopes, the damp, the flies
C
G
Prices hyped her face grew tight
Am
D
And conversation died
Verse 5
C
And the foreman at the smelter
G
Em
Am
Try the cane fields further north
G
C
And the clerk at the market said we
D
G
don't buy trouble
Em
Am
There's a strike down at the port
Verse 6
C
G
six- day shift in a filthy pit
Am
G
The drag lines gouging coal
Am
G
And anger rots your soul
C
And the queue round the block
Am
D
Can you take it for another year
Interlude 1
Em
D
Em
D
Em
D
Em
A
Em
A
Verse 7
G
A
Every Sunday he'd walk alone
D
Casting pebbles at the passing waves
G
A
Plunge in brine cleanse his pride
Verse 8
C
D
The crunch of shale and distant sails
Am
Seeing ships upon the tide
Bound for ports unknown
D
Interlude 2
Em
C
G
Am
A
Em
D
Em
C
G
A
Em
D
Verse 9
G
Soon he drank for comfort
D
Em
She grew bitter in the weeks between
C
G
The nights of beer and hollow cheer
Am
D
When love became routine
G
They fought, she left him crying
Verse 10
D
Em
Angry words in a last cafe
C
G
In desperation on a lonely night
Am
D
She took the bus to Cairns next day
Verse 11
C
D
And Gladstone couples break that way
G
Em
Mutual blame and no regrets
Am
G
C
And boomtown blues
G
Em
And all that's left are debts
Am
G
He
Verse 12
C
cried:
G
"I've got to leave this dirty old town
Am
G
And the rattle of broken men
C
G
Break these chains and wash the pain
Am
G
And put to sea again
C
Drained all my passion my
Am
D
And sank them in a flagon
C
Am
D
Verse 13
Greyhound window
D
Em
As the dawn glowed on the chrome
C
G
Standing by the pier under sullen skies
Am
D
Sea winds calling home
Verse 14
G
From Surfers up to Townsville
D
Em
Past the high- rise colonies
C
G
Fast food, cheap hotels
Am
D
And two more boomtown refugees
Em
Outro 1
D
Em
A
Em
D
Em
A
Em
D
A
Em
O que você achou da música?
Você precisa para deixar uma avaliação.
AfinadorE A D G B E
AcordesEm D C G Am...
Acordes populares ao redor do mundo
Acordes e tablaturas mais tocados pelos usuários
Adicionado recentemente
Acordes e tablaturas adicionados recentemente