Slim Dusty – You Know What I Mean (Guitar)

     G                                                      C
When everything was new and every day a new adventure to be played

                                                                      D
When I had not a thing to lose, and there were fortunes waiting to be made

      C                                                       G
There wasn't any reason why I shouldn’t a take chance on my beliefs

    A7                                                         D
And if I gambled wrong, just cut my losses and turn over a new leaf

      G                                                       C
Don’t have to tell you how it was when I was realising all my dreams

                                                                 D
Just me and you, a friend or two to bolster up my courage and my schemes

C                                                                  G
Nothing and no one could make me stop and count the price I had to give

       D                                                          G
I laid down the foundations of my freedom and the way I'd like to live

    C
Oh, you know what I mean cause you were there

G
Stony broke and walking, spending big, feeling important

       D                                G
On the top and down the bottom you were there

    G                                                               C
And when the shine wore off and I began to feel the heavy weight we bore

                                                               D
That was when I paid my dues and seem to go on paying more and more

    C                                                       G
The miles were never ending, I often wondered why I carried on

A7                                                       G
No one understands it but if anybody could, you'd be the one

G                                                                 C
You know what I mean about the way the distance makes you feel so small

                                                                               D
And how the getting there becomes the goal that makes you feel you're ten feet tall

    C                                                                 G
And when you know you've done it, and there no way you could ever go again

    D                                                        G
The staying and the wanting to be on the move is real as any pain

    C
Oh, you know what I mean cause you were there

G
Stony broke and walking, spending big, feeling important

       D                                G
On the top and down the bottom you were there

       D                                G
On the top and down the bottom you were there