Sing you
the outback
D - G - D -
G
D - G D
- G
1. I'll sing you the desert, where black men sailed,
D - G D - G
waterhole
to water, where white men failed.
D - G D - G
See the face of dreamers, forgotten souls,
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- G
hear
the voice of cattlemen crackle in
the coals.
Em
Maybe we will learn what's
written in the sand,
Em A D - G
a
thousand generations living off the land.
D - G D - G
I'll sing you the waters, runnin' through
the town,
D G D - G
wildflowers
and Wattles, when it settles down.
Em
The Outback is impossible,
forever and it's free,
Em A
D - G
no
way can I find an end to what it means to me.
D - G
The Outback.
D - G
D - G
2. I'll sing you the miners, steel
and coal,
D - G
D - G
opals
and diamonds, silver and gold.
D - G D - G
Emeralds and sapphires, I
wish for you,
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holes
in the Outback, down below.
Em
There's
lakes and there's rivers, caves to be found,
Em A D - G
and
there's another landscape underground.
D - G D - G
I'll sing you the waters, runnin' through the
town,
D G D - G
wildflowers
and Wattles, when it settles down.
D G D G
The backbone of the women who fight on and on,
D G D G
the
healing of the sunset when all is said and done.
Em
The Outback is impossible, forever and it's free,
Em A D
- G
no
way can I find an end to what it means to me.
D G D - G
What it means to me, the
Outback.
D G D - G
What it means to me, the
Outback.
D G D - G
What it means to me, the
Outback.
D G D - G - D
What it means to me, the
Outback.
(John Williamson)