Slim Dusty – Tex Morton (Guitar)

[Intro]
  C                                G7/D            C       G7/D            C 
e|--------|-------|-------|---0-0-|---1-1-|-------|---0-0-|---1-1-|-------|---0-0-|---0-0-|
B|--------|-------|-------|---1-1-|---0-0-|-------|---1-1-|---0-0-|-------|---1-1-|---1-1-|
G|-0--2-0-|-------|-------|---0-0-|---0-0-|-------|---0-0-|---0-0-|-------|---0-0-|---0-0-|
D|-------3|-2---2-|-3-2-0-|---2-2-|-0-----|-------|---2-2-|-0-----|-2-1-0-|---2-2-|---2-2-|
A|--------|---3---|-------|-3-----|-------|---0-2-|-3-----|-------|-------|-3-----|---3-3-|
E|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-3-----|-------|-------|-------|-------|-3-----|

     C              G              C
They called him the bloke with the banjo

             F                     C
cause they’d never seen spanish guitar

        F                         C
When he stood with his hat on the footpath

     D                     G7
this busker who would be a star

                                     C
And the streetlights shone down as a spotlight

    F                               C
and gleamed from the guitar that he played

       F                        C
As the depressions poor victims passed by him

   D            G7               C
he sang for the coins which were paid.

   C         G               C
He came as a child through depression

  F                      C
a swagman all cheeky and game

   F                       C
To make a mass fortune and spend it

     D              G7
then do it all over again

    C        G              C
The first to record our own folk songs

      F                      C
to be played on the old gramophones

     F                       C
From cities and towns to the outback

       D        G7          C
and in cosy old lantern lit homes

   C           G            C
He rode and he sang, and he acted

    F                   C
for stage and the radio shows

     F                        C
Then took it all with him and travelled

       D                  G7
in his great tented rodeo show

   C           G             C
He outsold the greats of his heyday

       F                     C
in his awesome showbusiness ascent

      F                      C
Great masses had all gone at showtime

   D            G7         C
to pack out the Tex Morton tent

[Solo]
  C                                G7/D            C               D         
e|--------|-------|-------|---0-0-|---1-1-|-------|---0-0-|-------|---2-2-|---2-2-|
B|--------|-------|-------|---1-1-|---0-0-|-------|---1-1-|-------|---3-3-|---3-3-|
B|-0--2-0-|-------|-------|---0-0-|---0-0-|-------|---0-0-|-------|---2-2-|---2-2-|
D|-------3|-2---2-|-3-2-0-|---2-2-|-0-----|-------|---2-2-|-------|-0-----|---0-0-|
A|--------|---3---|-------|-3-----|-------|---0-2-|-3-----|-3-2-3-|-------|-0-----|
E|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-3-----|-------|-------|-------|-------|

     D           A          D
With roughriders riding for glory

     G                           D
whip cracking, rope spinning and clowns

            G                 D
Then in the sawdust a ropin' arena

          E                A7
stood the man in Gabardine brown

        D           A        D
And the noisy crowd wildly applauding

      G                   D
would then sit Silent and mute

          G                          D
They were awed by his skill with the rifle

      E            A7           D
for I tell you Tex Morton could shoot.

      D          A            D
Now I give you a piece of the legend

       G                    D
of the man with the spanish guitar

    G                           D
Who came from the street to the spotlight

   E                   A
Australia’s first superstar

       D          A             D
In the history of all the great showmen

   G                     D
whoever performed on the stage

          G                       D
Oh, you’d have to give credits to Morton

       E              A7          D
as you write his name down on the page

          G                       D
Oh, you’d have to give credits to Morton

       E              A7          D
as you write his name down on the page