Slim Dusty – Give Me Room (Guitar)

Capo 1
Key
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Chords

[Intro]
             D                   G
e|---------|---2---2-|---------|---3---3-|
B|---------|---3---3-|---------|---0---0-|
G|---------|---2---2-|---------|---0---0-|
D|---------|-0-----0-|---------|---0-0---|
A|-3-2-0---|-----0---|-3-2-0---|---2-----|
E|-------3-|---------|-------2-|-3-------|
[Verse]
         G                                         D
Got this big ole rig in overdrive and we're makin' time.

                                                 G
Smoke blowin' from her stacks and trailin' out behind

      B7                           C              G
Got a load of station cattle for a sale away down south

  B7                       C                G
A lazy wind beside me so I need to wind her out.

        D             G
Give me room, give me room.
[Verse]
           G                                             D
We've been up to Northern Queensland and back to Tennant Creek

                                                   G
Done a run to Borroloola, we've been rollin' for a week

      B7                                   C              G
Got a stirry bunch of scrubbers, they're a restless heavy load

      B7                              C                G
Got a deadline at the sale yard so we need to a lot of road

        D             G
Give me room, give me room.

[Interlude]
             D                   G
e|---------|---2---2-|---------|---3---3-|
B|---------|---3---3-|---------|---0---0-|
G|---------|---2---2-|---------|---0---0-|
D|---------|-0-----0-|---------|---0-0---|
A|-3-2-0---|-----0---|-3-2-0---|---2-----|
E|-------3-|---------|-------2-|-3-------|
[Verse]
       G                                                  D
If you see this big rig comin', you can bet she's blowin' black

                                                               G
Oh, there's thunder in her diesel and there's lightning in her stacks

       B7                            C               G
Left a Louis like its standing and a Kenworth in our wake

         B7                              C            G
Caught a Jimmy through the risers and an Inter on the straight, hey.

        D             G
Give me room, give me room. Look out now.
[Instrumental] G D G B7 C G B7 C G D G [Verse]
       G                                               D
If you think you hear thunder, hey, you'd better move aside

                                                          G
Theres a monster in your mirror with a trailer's trackin' wide

      B7                                C                G
Got a hundred tonne behind us and we're rolling down the track

     B7                                C            G
Five hundred horse beneath me and it's coupled to a Mack

        D             G
Give me room, give me room

[Interlude]
             D                   G
e|---------|---2---2-|---------|---3---3-|
B|---------|---3---3-|---------|---0---0-|
G|---------|---2---2-|---------|---0---0-|
D|---------|-0-----0-|---------|---0-0---|
A|-3-2-0---|-----0---|-3-2-0---|---2-----|
E|-------3-|---------|-------2-|-3-------|
[Verse]
         G                                         D
Got this big ole rig in overdrive and we're makin' time.

                                                 G
Smoke blowin' from her stacks and trailin' out behind

      B7                           C              G
Got a load of station cattle for a sale away down south

  B7                       C                G
A lazy wind beside me so I need to wind her out.

        D                   G
Give me room, mate, give me room.

        D             G
Give me room, give me room
[Outro] B7 C G D C G D G