Slim Dusty – Water If It Took Fifty Years (Guitar)
Capo 3
Key
-
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
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Chords and figures relative to the capo.
Figure 1 - = G*
e|---------3-3-| B|---------0-0-| G|---------0-0-| D|---------0-0-| A|-2-1-0---2-2-| E|-------3-----| G* G ------------------------------------------
[Intro]
G D G G* G
[Verse 1]
C G A7 As I drive through the country, so barren and burned with the sun. D G I see cattle and sheep strung out a long paddock run. C G C The topsoil is blowin' in red clouds into the sky, G Em If it took twenty years to bring water out here; C D G I'm sure it would all be worthwhile.
[Verse 2]
G C G A7 Old Indigo Jones forecast all this when he said, D G "There's big droughts ahead and the Eighties will really be bad." C G C And I see it all 'round me as I drive each drought stricken mile. G Em If it took thirty years to bring water out here; C D G I'm sure it would all be worthwhile.
[Break 1]
C C G Em Em C D G G* G
[Verse 3]
G C G A7 The hot winds are blowing, the sky's just a dark dusty grey. D G Five years of drought and relief still seems far away. C G C With stock slowly dying, its hard to face up with a smile. G Em If it took forty years to bring water out here; C D G I'm sure it would all be worthwhile.
[Verse 4]
G C G A7 It seems old man drought has really taken command. D G He's burned up more than half of this big ol' land. C G C The plains are a desert, the countrysides burnt up and gnarlled. G Em If it took fifty years to bring water out here; C D G I'm sure it would all be worthwhile.
[Break 2]
C C G Em Em C D G G* G
[Verse 5]
C G A7 The hot winds are blowin' and the whirlwinds dance o'er the plain. D G And you'd swear that this country had never tasted sweet rain. C G C And the patient old trees just stand there and wait for a change. G Em Oh, if it took fifty years to bring water out here; C D G It would taste like god given rain.