Graeme Connors - Songs From The Homeland guitar chord

Intro: D x17

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at the top end of market near castlereagh street

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there's a busker singing and playing the floop

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with a piano accordian slung round his shoulders

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and a hat at his feet to capture the coins

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and a nod and a wink to the generous ones

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and he's singing a song that's vaguely familiar

A G

the words from a poem by Lawson i think

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but whoever it's from it's surely Australian

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the way the words flow and the spirit of place

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and although i'm in a hurry i must stay and listen to a

Chorus:

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song from the homeland a song from the blood

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a song to remind me of the country i love

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well there's beauty no doubt beneath foreign skies

Em A

but a song from the homeland

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songs from the homeland brings tears to my eyes

Intro: D x17

mysterious reasons i can't walk away

i'm drawn by the heart to the songs he keeps playing

from Botany Bay to Waktzing Matilda

Click Go The Shears the Little Boy Lost

The Lights on the Hill and the Cootamundra Wattle

then it hits me like lightning i'm the only one there

only one from the hundreds in the passing parade

in a city of stangers from all round the world

they come for the money they come for the sun

they come for the promise but they don't give a damn about

Chorus (as above) x3

Intro: D x17