The Seekers – The Bush Girl (Guitar)
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Chords
Original song key is F# (tune your guitar down a half step to match)
Original song is also in open-tuning; this music is transposed to resemble standard-tuning chords.
Tablature written on behalf of Wendy Coup - happy 60th birthday!
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[Intro]
D D D D
C C C C
Bm Bm Bm Bm
C C C C
[Pre-verse]
G Gmaj7 G6 G6
G Gmaj7 G6 G6
[Verse 1]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 So you rode from the range where your brothers select G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn G G6 Gmaj7 G6 You rode slowly at first lest her heart should suspect G C That you were so glad to be gone
[Verse 2]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 You had scarcely the courage to glance back at her G G6 Gmaj7 G6 By the homestead receding from view G G6 Gmaj7 G6 And you breathed with relief as you rounded the spur G C For the world was a wide world to you
[Chorus]
C G Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain C G Fond heart that is ever more true C Bm Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain C G She'll wait by the sliprails for you
[Pre-verse]
G Gmaj7 G6 G6
G Gmaj7 G6 G6
[Verse 3]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Ah the world is a new and a wide one to you G G6 Gmaj7 G6 But the world to your sweetheart is shut G G6 Gmaj7 G6 For a change never comes to the lonely bush girl G C From the stockyard the bush and the hut
[Verse 4]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 And the only relief from its dullness she feels G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Is when ridges grow softened and dim G G6 Gmaj7 G6 And away in the dusk to the sliprails she steals G C To dream of past meetings with you
[Chorus]
C G Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain C G Fond heart that is ever more true C Bm Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain C G She'll wait by the sliprails for you
[Instrumental]
G G C C
G G Em Em
G G C C
G G Em Em
[Verse 5]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Do you think where in place of bare fences dry creeks G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Clear streams and green hedges are seen G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Where the girls have lily and rose in their cheeks G C And the grass in midsummer is green
[Verse 6]
G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Do you think now and then now or then in the whirl G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Of the city while London is new G G6 Gmaj7 G6 Of the hut in the bush and the freckled-face girl G C Who is eating her heart out for you
[Chorus]
C G Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain C G Fond heart that is ever more true C Bm Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain C G She'll wait by the sliprails for you
[Chorus]
C G Those grey eyes that are sadder than sunset or rain C G Bruised heart that is ever more true C Bm Fond faith that is firmer for trusting in vain C Bm She waits by the sliprails for you
[Coda]
C Bm She waits by the sliprails for you C G C Waits by the sliprails for you G Just for you