Gordon Bok – Bare-Legged Kate (Guitar)

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[Intro] G [Chorus]
G
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace

         Am                    D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face

  G
A poor bush girl when the summer is high

       Am     D            G
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
G
Bare legged Kate why do you run

Am                       D
Down to the creek in the setting sun?

    G
Go away where the eyes of the world can't see

        Am         D                  G     D
But you can't run away from your poverty
[Verse]
G
Bare legged Kate, why do you weep

         Am                    D
When the men drove by with the travelling sheep?

         G
Does the sight of the drover make you sad

         Am           D                G      D
When you think of the father you never had?
[Chorus]
G
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace

         Am                    D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face

  G
A poor bush girl when the summer is high

       Am     D            G
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
G
Oh, it's well you know, there's gold in the hills

        Am                    D
But you know that the cyanide process kills

G
Strangles the miners and cuts them down

         Am          D               G
In their mean little homes in Timber Town
[Verse]
G
And it's well you know, when the floods come down

         Am                        D
It's the poor by the river are the first to drown

          G
Where the wild Murrumbidgee goes roaring by

            Am      D             G
Through the haunted hills of Gundagai
[Chorus]
G
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace

         Am                    D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face

  G
A poor bush girl when the winter is nigh

       Am     D             G
In the barren hills of Gundagai