Slim Dusty – Song Of The West (Guitar)

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On the west side of Australia where the skies are very blue,

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They'll extend the hand of friendship to the traveller coming through.

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So if you feel you need a change in hospitality,

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Take yourself to West Australia where the Salmon gums grow free.

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You can travel on fair highways that extend to every town,

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There's a peaceful kind of beauty there that seldom can be found.

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Onward through the wheat lands where the hills just roll away,

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where the golden grain waves to the sun throughout the summer days.

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Travel southward through the timberland and see the sawdust fly,

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Where the Karri and the Jarrah giants so poised towards the sky.

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A little futher northward scenic roadways wend and wind,

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Through apple orchard country and apple pickin' time.

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As you leave the rolling wheat lands and we take you further north,

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you're surrounded by expansion from our mighty mineral source.

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On that long and rugged coast line all through Mother Nature's door

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Where the mighty Indian Oceans ever rolling to our shore.

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Through the harsh and coloured Kimb'lies, where our finiest horseman ride,

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The roads are long and towns are few and the country's big and wide.

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A Dreamtime kind of beauty there that's so hard to explain,

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when you taste that there reception you'll be going back again.

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On the west side of Australia where the skies are very blue,

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They'll extend the hand of friendship and I know you'll find it true.

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This has been a hurried picture but I'm sure it goes to prove,

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On the west side of Australia there's a great state on the move.

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On the west side of Australia there's a great state on the move.