Slim Dusty – Coming Down The Barkly (Guitar)

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[Intro] A7 D A7 D [Verse]

D
Comin' down the Barkly, I was stirrin' up the dust

    A7
Was going to be in Isa by dinner time or bust

D
Hadn't had no sleep and I was weary to the bone

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When the offsider tyre busted, I was many miles from home

[Verse]

A
There among the spinifex I stood and cursed my luck

But that never changed no tyre, so I crawled beneath the truck

D
Daybreak on the Barkly could be a dreamy scene

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But beneath the load of cattle is not the place for dreams. Hmmm

[Interlude] D G A7 D [Verse]

   D
My eyes were full of bulldust I had cow muck in my hair

A7
Busted up my finger, wrestlin' with the spare

      D
Oh, I thought I'd have a cuppa, but the thermos was a wreck

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Then I couldn't find my matches to light a cigarette

[Verse]

      A
So, I told the world my troubles in language very foul

But all I got for answer was the bellow from a cow

      D
And I thought of happy hours just a-lazing on a horse

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behind a mob of cattle on a western water course

[Interlude] D G A7 D [Verse]

      D
Oh, I cursed the day the truckies pushed the drover o'er the hill

    A7
For I’d be sittin' pretty if I was drovin' still.

          D
But those droving' days are over now and I'm a truckie too

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And I've gotta get to Isa I've another load to do.

[Verse]

       A
Yes, I cursed the day the truckies pushed the drover o'er the hill

For I’d be sittin' pretty if I was a-drovin' still.

          D
But those droving' days are over now and I'm a truckie too

         G            D         A7             D
And I've gotta get to Isa I've another load to do.

[Outro] A7 D

A7    D
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