Transcribed by...Kai Lukoschek
(The notation C(g" f" e" d" c") means you play C major plus the line
g" f" e" d" c", where g" means the note g on the upper E string etc.)
A D A F#m D E A
A D A F#m A D A D
A D A F#m
Won't you come on down the line
D E A
Away from barren ground
A D A F#m
The harlot and the autocrat
D E A
Are they driving you further down
E F#m h F#m
The season's rhymes, they anchor me
D h
Against the raging tide
A D A F#m
Take you to the last wild place
D E A
Skin and the stars they embrace
A D A F#m
A caveman could a saint become
D E A
In a hospital ward on the Somme
E F#m Bm F#m
We can dive into distant amoebas
D Bm F#m E F#m E
Our wings could melt in the sun
CHORUS
F#m E
I can shake
F#m G
I can move
F#m Bm F#m E
But I can't live without your love
F#m E
I can break
F#m G
Over you
F#m Bm F#m D F#m D F#m E
But I can't live without your love
A D A F#m
Our poet Henry Lawson he named them
D E A
The lay 'em out brigade
A D A F#m A D A D
Here they come there they go
A D A F#m
Oh great god of development
D E A
Don't really know you yet
A D A F#m
Coastline hosed down washed away
D E A
Economics, now there's nothing left
E F#m Bm F#m
Tomorrow's child takes concrete footsteps
D Bm D A A E
And they'll drink champagne or be damned
D A E
And the storm is breaking now
D A E
Yeah the storm is breaking now
D A E
Yes the storm is breaking now
CHORUS
CHORUS
(intro part)
Full
key step up
Half
key step up
Half
key step down
Full
key step down
