Slim Dusty – So Many Ballads To Play (Guitar)

    C                                                     D
The long road is dreary and the flat western country's so dry

    G                                      F                      C
You left the motel about seven o'clock and now it's just going on five.

                                                  D
There's a phone interview with the radio station, someone that you oughta know

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They say it can't wait, but it's going on eight, don't they realise you're doing a show?

        C                                                   D
So, you get to the hall, and you find the backstage and the band's tuning up for a check

     G                                      F                    C
your mood is severe but the show atmosphere quickly makes you forget.

                                                        D
You throw on some things and you stand in the wings and gone are the cares of the day

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and you all brighten up when the curtain goes up, cause there's so many ballads to play. Hey

    C                                                         D
The show's running late but the crowd are just great, they've made you so welcome this year

     G                                          F                      C
It's out to the people and sign autographs then off to your room for a beer

                                                 D
then someone invents somebody’s birthday and the parties in room twenty-one

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but when morning comes round, you're feeling half drowned, saying "what in the hell have I done". Hey.

         C                                                D
There's another long drive, you have to survive, there's another town waiting out there

         G                                                   F                           C
so, it's up and get going, that’s what keeps you going, it's no use you're waiting round here

                                           D
Each day's a chapter you live to the full, right from the start to the end

         G                             A7                        F           G      C
but when you get back home, why you'll sit back and moan saying "when are we goin' again?".

          C                                                   D
Yeah, you get to the hall, and you find the backstage and the band's tuning up for a check

     G                                      F                    C
your mood is severe but the show atmosphere quickly makes you forget.

                                                         D
You throw on some things and you stand in the wings, and gone are the cares of the day

        G                        A7                             F       G          C
and you all brighten up when the curtain goes up, cause there's so many ballads to play.

      G                  C
yeah, so many ballads to play

       C      G            C
Let me wander north to the homestead

    F                       C
way out further on there to roam

     F                      C
by a gully in flood, let me linger

                              G
When the summery sunshine has flown