Slim Dusty – Hows Your Memory (Guitar)

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Way back when we had it all,

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Places and faces and names that we know,

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We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,

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  How's your memory, can you recall,

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  Way back when we had it all.

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 Great nights by the radio,

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  Listenin’ to Davey, Dyer and Mo,

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Sunday morning, bacon and eggs,

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With Fatty Finn and Ginger Meggs.

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 Each year to the show we went,

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First stop was Sharman's tent,

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Bradman, Laver and Darby Munroe.

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Surely it wasn't that long ago?

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Jackie Howe singlets and the ole steam train

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Indigo Jones and sweet summer rain.

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  How's your memory, can you recall?

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Way back when we had it all,

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Places and faces and names that we know,

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We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,

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  How's your memory, can you recall,

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  Way back when we had it all.

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A Wieneke saddle and laughin’ side boots

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Wide brimmed hat and a gabardine suit,

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Mutton, damper and cockies joy,

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Anthony Hordens and ole Mark Foy's.

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J.C Williamson, the Southern Cross,

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Movietone News and Irish Moss,

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St Kilda, Bondi and Glenelg Trams,

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The Gabba and the WACA and IXL jams,

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Quid notes and Zacs and thrupenny bits

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Bluey and Curley might take it they bit.

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  How's your memory, can you recall?

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Way back when we had it all,

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Places and faces and names that we know,

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We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,

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  How's your memory, can you recall,

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  Way back when we had it all.

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Now years have rolled on and places have changed,

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Places are different and accents strange,

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Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Jim Beam and coke,

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More and more guys and less and less blokes,

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H bombs, French fries and tasty Big Mac

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Hold that half dozen, I’ll take a six pack,

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Toyotas and Hondas and a few more yen,

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A lot more persons than women or men.

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  How's your memory, can you recall?

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Way back when we had it all,

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Places and faces and names that we know,

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We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,

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  How's your memory, can you recall,

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  Way back when we had it all.

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  Way back when we had it all;

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  Way back when we had it all;

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  Back back back we had it all;

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  Way back when we had it all;

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  Way back when we had it all. What a stuff up.