Gordon Bok – Freedom On The Wallaby (Guitar)

   D    A     D       A       Bm                Em
Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey

                                  A         Em       A
And Freedom's on the wallaby, oh, can't you hear her cooey?

      D      A      D    F#7          Bm        D       Em
She's just begun to boomerang, she'll knock the tyrants silly

                             A                     D      A
She's going to light another fire and boil another billy

    D       A          D      A           Bm                Em
Our fathers toiled for bitter bread while loafers thrived beside 'f#m

                                           A      Em    A
But food to eat and clothes to wear, their native land denied 'f#m

    D       A          D      F#7      Bm       D       Em
And so they left their native land, in spite of their devotion

                             A                           D      A
And so they came, or if they stole, were sent across the ocean

     D       A        D         A        Bm          Em
Then Freedom couldn't stand the glare of Royalty's regalia

                                         A        Em    A
She left the loafers where they were and came out to Australia

    D    A         D      F#7       Bm          D       Em
But now across the mighty Main, the chains have come to bind her

                           A                           D         A
She little thought to see again, the wrongs she left behind her

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Our fathers grubbed to make a home, hard grubbin 'twas and clearin'

                                          A        Em A
They wasn't troubled much with lords when they was pioneerin'

    D        A       D         F#7     Bm     D       Em
But now that we have made this land, a garden full of promise

                               A                         D        A
Old Greed must crook his dirty hand and come to take her from us

   D       A     D     A        Bm           Em
So we must fly a rebel flag, as others did before us

                                  A       Em    A
And we must sing a rebel song and join in rebel chorus

      D        A       D        F#7      Bm         D          Em
We'll make the tyrants feel the sting of those that they would throttle

                              A                              D       A
They needn't say the fault is ours if blood should stain the wattle

   D    A     D       A       Bm                Em
Australia's a big country and Freedom's humpin' bluey

                                  A         Em       A
And Freedom's on the wallaby, oh, can't you hear her cooey?

      D      A      D    F#7           Bm        D       Em
She's just begun to boomerang, she'll knock the tyrants silly

                             A                     D
She's going to light another fire and boil another billy