Gordon Bok – Queensland Overlanders (Guitar)

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There's a trade you all know well

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It's bringing cattle over

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On every track, to the Gulf and back

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Men know the Queensland drover

Em                        C
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      G                D
Don't let the pint pot stand there

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For tonight we'll drink the health

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Of every overlander

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There are men from every land

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From Spain and France and Flanders

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We're a well-mixed pack, both white and black

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Men call the overlanders

Em                        C
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      G                D
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      G                     C
For tonight we'll drink the health

   G         D  G   D  G
Of every overlander

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I come from the northern plains

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Where the girls and grass are scanty

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Where the creeks run dry or ten foot high

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And it's either drought or plenty

Em                        C
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      G                D
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      G                     C
For tonight we'll drink the health

   G         D  G   D  G
Of every overlander

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When we've earned a spree in town

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We live like kings in clover

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And a whole month's check goes down the neck

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Of many a Queensland drover

Em                        C
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      G                D
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      G                     C
For tonight we'll drink the health

   G         D  G   D  G
Of every overlander

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As I pass along the road

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The children raise my dander

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Crying, "Mother dear, take in the clothes

     G            D  G
Here comes an overlander"

Em                        C
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      G                D
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      G                     C
For tonight we'll drink the health

   G         D  G
Of every overlander