Slim Dusty – When The Rain Tumbles Down In July (Guitar)

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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,

         C                    G
When the summery sunshine has flown.

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Where the logs tangle up on the creek bed,

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And clouds veil the old northern sky,

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And the cattle move back from the lowlands,

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When the rain tumbles down in July.

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The settlers with sad hearts are watching,

    F                           C
The rise of the stream from the dawn,

      F                        C
Their best crops are always in flood reach,

      C                          G
If it rises much more they'll be gone.

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The cattle string out along the fences,

    F                         C
The wind from the south races by,

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And the limbs from the old gums are fallin',

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When the rain tumbles down in July.

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The sleeping gums on the hillside,

 F                       C
Awaken to herds straying by,

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From the flats where the fences have vanished,

       C                      G
As the storm clouds gather on high.

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The wheels of the wagons stop turning,

    F                            C
The stock horse is turned out to stray,

    F                      C
The old station dogs are a dozin',

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On the husks in the barn through the day.

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The drover draws rein by the river,

     F                           C
It's years since he's seen it so high,

        F                      C
Yes and that's just a story of homeward,

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When the rain tumbles down in July.