Tablature the overlanders - TRADITIONNEL

          



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  Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:03:52 +1000

  From: Kevin Woodgate <kwoodg10@scu.edu.au>

  Subject: m/misc_traditional/the_overlanders.tab

  

  

  

      The Overlanders       Australian Folk Song    

  

  Transcribed by K Woodgate

  

  Easy melody Version 

  

  The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson 

  and many other Australian Folk records.

  

  

     Am                 C                   Dm               Em

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  D|-2-----2----------|-------------------|-0-----0---0-----|-0--2--2----2-----|

  A|----------0-----2-|-3---3----3-----3--|---------------3-|------------------|

  E|------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------|

    There's a trade you all know well, It's bring-ing the cat-tle o-ver. Now 

  

     Am               C               Dm          Em         C  

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  D|-2--2-----------|-------------2-|-0-0------0-|-2---2---2-2--|-0--2-----3---

  A|--------0-----2-|-3---3--3------|------3-----|--------------|--------------

  E|----------------|---------------|------------|--------------|--------------

    lis-ten while I  tell to you How I be-came a  drov-er. I want-ed stock for 

  

     G              C              G       Am                 C 

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  G|-0-----0------------|----------0--|-0--2------2--2--|-0-----------------|

  D|-------------3--2---|-0--2--3-----|-----------------|-----2---2---2-----|

  A|--------------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------------|

  E|--------------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------------|

    Queens-land, To Kemp-sey I did wan-der Bought a thous-and cat-tle there 

  

         Em                   Am

  e|-------------------|-----------------|

  B|-------------------|-----------------|

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  D|--0----------------|-----------------|

  A|-----3----3------2-|-------0------0--|

  E|-------------------|-3---------------|

     And then turned o-  ver - land - er. 

  

     CHORUS

     C               G               C                 G             Am 

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  B|---------------|----------------------|------------------|----------------

  G|---------------|-0----0------0--------|-------------0----|-0-----2---2--2-

  D|-2---0---2---3-|-----------------2----|-0--2-----3-------|----------------

  A|---------------|----------------------|------------------|----------------

  E|---------------|----------------------|------------------|----------------

    Pass the bot-tle round boys, and don't you leave it stand there, For

  to-night

  

          C                   Em             Am

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  B|----------------------|------------|---------------||

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    we'll drink the health of ev-ry o -  ver-land-er 

  

  When the cattle were counted 

  And the outfit ready to start, 

  I saw the boys all mounted 

  With their swags thrown in the cart, 

  All kinds of men I had too 

  >From France and Spain and Flanders 

  Lawyers, doctors, good and bad, 

  In the mob of overlanders.

  

  >From the track I then spread out 

  Where the grass was green and young, 

  When a squatter with a curse and shout, 

  Told me to move along. 

  I said, 'Come draw it mild man, 

  And don't you raise my dander 

  For I'm a regular knowin' card, 

  A Queensland overlander.'

  

  We move the cattle fifty miles

  And make camp for the day,

  We talk about the rich folk's life

  And true loves far away.

  Our tucker isn't fancy

  Beef and tea and damper

  But wash it down with Queensland rum

  It suits the overlander,

  

  Our clothes are getting dirtier 

  And throats they choke with dust, 

  We set our tired horses free 

  And in the dogs we trust. 

  We gaze into the shimmering haze, 

  And dream of places grander, 

  But, come what may, we know we'll stay

  The Queensland overlander

  

  I would scorn to prig a shirt, 

  That all my mates can say 

  But if we pass a township 

  Upon a washing day, 

  The dirty brats of kids would shout, 

  And quickly raise my dander 

  Crying, 'Mother dear, take in your clothes, 

  Here comes the overlander.'

  

  In town we dress ourselves up 

  And we go and see a play. 

  We never think of being hard up, 

  Or how to spend a day, 

  We steer up to them pretty girls 

  That dress themselves in grandeur 

  And while they sweat our cheques, they swear 

  They love the overlander.

  

  

  

  

  

   


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 The overlanders, de Traditionnel 

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