Misc Traditional – The Queensland Drover Aka The Overlander (Guitar)

          C                   F
There's a trade you all know well

     C               G7
It's bringing cattle over

   C                   F
On every track, to the Gulf and back

    C                   G  C
Men know the Queensland drover

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander

      C                   F
There are men from every land

     C                    G7
From Spain and France and Flanders

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

    C            G  C
Men call the overlanders

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander

       C                  F
I come from the northern plains

          C                   G7
Where the girls and grass are scanty

         C                 G   C
And it's either drought or plenty

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander

     C                        F
When we've earned a spree in town

   C                  G7
We live like kings in clover

      C                       F
And a whole month's check goes down the neck

   C                 G  C
Of many a Queensland drover

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander

     C              F
As I pass along the road

    C                 G7
The children raise my dander

         C                 F
Crying, "Mother dear, take in the clothes

     C            G  C
Here comes an overlander"

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander

C                           F
Now I'm bound for home once more,

C                        G7
on a prad that's quite a goer;

C                                F
I can find a job with a crawling mob

C               G   C
on the banks of Maranoa

Am                        F
Pass the billy 'round, me boys

      C                G7
Don't let the pint pot stand there

      C                     F
For tonight we'll drink the health

   C         G  C
Of every overlander