Xavier Rudd – Road Trippin (Guitar)

  G                        C
Ripping down a track in my old Troopy

    G                         C
Wildflowers blooming with the smell of the sea

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[tab] G               C
Skeletons on the Tanami

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Rusty car bodies never made the grind

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Road tripping

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Hole in your stomach for the ones you love

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Shoulda coulda done more never seems enough

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Road tripping

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Hills rising up from the big old plains

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Like the belly of a woman who will procreate

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Road tripping

  G            C
Brolga and the jabiru

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Little thorny devil and the kangaroo

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Road tripping

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Red-tailed blacks with their ancient cry

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Gotten us through from day to night

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Road tripping

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Catching silty grinner with a block of cheese

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In this old billabong beneath these melaleuca trees

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Road tripping

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And everybody's watching for the saltwater croc

    G N.C.
Has always been, will always be the boss

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Road tripping

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Belinda chasing barramundi

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And there's Arny with a handline pulling up a feed

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Road tripping

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Paintings in the caves from a time before

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When our country was sacred, not a stone unturned

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Road tripping

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Eating red dirt as the sun goes down

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Feeling life can't touch you, can't catch you now

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Road tripping

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Colors in the sky you've never seen before

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Being cleansed by the waters of an ancient gorge

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Road tripping

        Bm       C           G             D
And I'm sorry to you for the things that I do

       Bm      C               G          D
And I love you more with every shimmering moon

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Hand in hand with our feet in the sand

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And all that I want here is you

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Smiley faced kids in communities

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Heart on their sleeve and their own two feet

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Road tripping

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Chewing on the flowers of a boab tree

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Trying hard to imagine all the life they've seen

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Road tripping

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Walking barefoot through the spinifex

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Amazed by the tucker in the red desert

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Road tripping

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Sun going down over Uluru

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Sucking honey from the flowers as we're gathering wood

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Road tripping

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Wedge-tailed eagle and the whistling kite

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On the long road east with home on the mind

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Road tripping

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And everything is equal in this sacred land

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Every plant, every animal, your own two hands

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Road tripping

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Heading back home to the cattle dogs

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To the seasons on the river and the ones we love

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Road tripping

       G N.C.
And we carry the spirit of this old country

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Road tripping

        Bm       C           G             D
And I'm sorry to you for the things that I do

       Bm      C               G          D
And I love you more with every shimmering moon

Bm           C        G           D
Hand in hand with our feet in the sand

    C          D            G
And all that I want here is you

    C          D            G
Yes all that I want here is you