A Reason For It All chords by Eric Bogle

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
G+G        A minorAm
Summer's smiling on the city
D MajorD       G+G
Another lovely day in Sydney
         A minorAm
Sunshine pouring down like honey
   D MajorD      G+G
In a golden waterfall
           A minorAm
But in the room where Clare is dying
D MajorD           G+G
No sunshine sends the shadows flying
          A minorAm
No children gather round her crying
D MajorD             G+G
There's no one there at all
A minorAm
Except perhaps for the man who sees
  D MajorD        G+G
Each little sparrow fall

Chorus Tenor:
G+G
Don't talk to me about lonely souls crying
D MajorD           G+G
Dark quiet rooms with old people dying
    C majorC        D MajorD            G+G
I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear it at all

Tired old people die alone every day
D MajorD            G+G
Don't blame me, I didn't make it that way
      C majorC          D MajorD          G+G
That's just how it is, don't look for a reason at all


Verse 2:
G+G       A minorAm
Winter weeping on the city
D MajorD        G+G
A augmentedA wet and windy day in Sydney
         A minorAm
Raindrops rolling fat and heavy
D MajorD          G+G
Down Clare's window pane
           A minorAm
The raindrops on the tin roof beating
D MajorD          G+G
Disturbs the rats as they are feeding
           A minorAm
Back to the nest they all go creeping
D MajorD          G+G
Leaving Clare alone again
   A minorAm
It's been a long and lonely time
   D MajorD          G+G
Since Clare could hear the rain

Tenor Chorus:
G+G
Don't talk to me about the meaning of life
D MajorD             G+G
Don't sing your songs that cut like a knife
    C majorC        D MajorD            G+G
I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear it at all

Lonely old people ain't my concern
D MajorD           G+G
From dust we come, to dust we return
      C majorC       D MajorD               G+G
And that's all there is, don't look for a reason in it all


Verse 3:
G+G          A minorAm
Springtime's come at last to Sydney
D MajorD          G+G
Flowers are blooming in the city
         A minorAm
In all their multicoloured glory
D MajorD           G+G
They rise to greet the year
      A minorAm
Memories in shame recalling
D MajorD        G+G
Footsteps on the front porch falling
          A minorAm
Voices through the window calling
D MajorD      G+G
"Is anybody there?"
A minorAm
Clare Campbell's lost and lonely soul
   D MajorD          G+G
Is a long, long way from here


Tenor Chorus:
G+G
Don't talk to me about life's seasons
D MajorD                G+G
Don't ask me for answers, don't ask me for reasons
    C majorC        D MajorD            G+G
I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear it at all

From the moment we're born, we start to die
D MajorD            G+G
A augmentedA man can go crazy if he keeps asking why
      C majorC        D MajorD           G+G
That's just how it is, don't look for a reason at all


Baritone Chorus:
   G+G
Can't you understand what I'm trying to say
   D MajorD           G+G
There must an answer, there must be a way
       C majorC        D MajorD              G+G
To make some sense of it, to try to find a reason for it all

We are not born just so we can die
D MajorD              G+G
There must be an answer and we've got to try
    C majorC          D MajorD               G+G
To make some sense of it; to try to find a reason for it all


Baritone Chorus:(Sung simultaneously as the last Tenor Chorus is sung)
   G+G
Can't you understand what I'm trying to say
   D MajorD           G+G
There must an answer, there must be a way
       C majorC        D MajorD              G+G
To make some sense of it, to try to find a reason for it all

We are not born just so we can die
D MajorD              G+G
There must be an answer and we've got to try
    C majorC          D MajorD               G+G
To make some sense of it; to try to find a reason for it all

Ending:
      C majorC        D MajorD           G+G
That's just how it is, don't look for a reason at all
     C majorC         D MajorD            G+G
Ah, there must a way, there must be reason for it all