Misc Traditional – Across The Western Plains (Guitar)

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[Chorus]
     G                   C            G
It's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog

                            D7
It's all for me beer and tobacco

 G                             C               G
'cos I spent all my tin in the shanty drinking gin

                                     D7  G
Now across the Western Plains I must wander
[Verse 1]
    G                              C              G
I'm stiff and stony broke and I've parted with my smoke

                                D7
And the sky is looking black as thunder

        G                             C             G 
And the boss of the shanty too, for I haven't got a sou

                                               D7  G
That's how they treat you when you're down and under
[Chorus]
     G                   C            G
It's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog

                            D7
It's all for me beer and tobacco

 G                             C               G
'cos I spent all my tin in the shanty drinking gin

                                     D7  G
Now across the Western Plains I must wander
[Verse 2]
    G                        C               G
I'm crook in the head, for I haven't been to bed

                                          D7
Since I first touched this shanty with my plunder

      G                              C                 G
I see centipedes and snakes, and I'm full of aches and shakes

                                   D7  G
So I'd better make a push out over yonder
[Chorus]
     G                   C            G
It's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog

                            D7
It's all for me beer and tobacco

 G                             C               G
'cos I spent all my tin in the shanty drinking gin

                                     D7  G
Now across the Western Plains I must wander
[Verse 3]
  G                             C             G
Repentance brings reproof, so I sadly pad the hoof

                                D7
All day I see the mirage of the trees

    G                            C               G
But it'll all have an end when I reach the river bend

                                 D7   G
And listen to the sighing of the breeze
[Chorus]
     G                   C            G
It's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog

                            D7
It's all for me beer and tobacco

 G                             C               G
'cos I spent all my tin in the shanty drinking gin

                                     D7  G
Now across the Western Plains I must wander