Gladstone Pier - Redgum Chords

Chords: C, G, D, Em, Am, By, E

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Genre: folk, rock, australian

C G
He was a sailor

D Em
Swarthy lean and proud

C G
He could take a schooner through a big sea swell

Am D
Aloof in the mainland crowd

C G
She loved his quiet laughter

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

C G D Em
He wore her name in a rose tattoo

C G Am
Long weekends of gins and lime

C G D Em
She lived in Cairns made plans to move

C G Am
Checkout girl part-time

C G D Em
And rumour said there's a boom ahead

C G Am
You can make your future here

Em

By the Gladstone pier

C G
A two roomed fibro shelter

D Em
Empty hopes, the damp, the flies

C G
Prices hiked her face grew tight

Am D
And conversation died

C G D
And the foreman at the smelter said you're much too old

Em

C G Am
Try the cane fields furthers north

C G D Em
And the clerk at the market said we don't buy trouble

C G Am
There's a strike down at the port

C G D Em
Then a six-day shift in a filthy pit

C G Am
The drag lines gouging coal

C G D Em
The black dust gnaws at your lungs and pores

C G Am
And anger rots your soul

C G D
And the queue round the block waits for you to drop

Em

C G Am
Can you take it for another year

Em

By the Gladstone Pier

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