A Tale They Won't Believe chords by Captain Tractor

Chords with lyrics

Intro 1:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x4


Intro 2:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x2


Verse 1:
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We left Macquarie Harbour it was in the pouring rain
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None of us quite sure if we would see England again
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Some fool muttered death or liberty
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There was six of us together a jolly hungry crew
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And as the days went by you know our hunger quickly grew
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Some fool muttered death or liberty

Pre-Chorus:
    C majorC             DmDm
So that night we made fires out of twigs and out of bark
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And our stomachs they were grumbling all through the night so dark
C majorC
We were only trying to keep ourselves alive
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But when the sun came up next morning well the six had turned to five, and I said


Chorus:
DmDm       C majorC      Bb majorBb    C majorC
Right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
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It's a tale they won't believe...
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When I get down to Hobart town


Interlude:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x2


Verse 2:
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All five of us were nervous and I'll tell you that's a fact
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But you should have seen the bastard who was carrying the axe
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He was a sick man he had murder in his heart
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And then we reached the Franklin River, and it took two days to cross
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We were wet and almost starvin' and for food were at a loss
    Bb majorBb       C majorC       DmDm
We were hungry men with murder on our minds

Pre-Chorus:
    C majorC              DmDm
So that night we made a fire out of twigs and out of bark
    C majorC                DmDm
And our stomachs they were rumbling all through the night so dark
  C majorC              DmDm
And they were making noises the dead could not ignore
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And when the sun came up next morning
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The five had turned to four! And I said,

Chorus:
DmDm       C majorC      Bb majorBb    C majorC
Right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
DmDm   C majorC     Bb majorBb   C majorC
It's a tale they won't believe...
C majorC
When I get down to Hobart town


Interlude:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x2


Verse 3:
     DmDm              DmDm
Well the four of us kept marching to a place called Western Tiers
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A augmentedA country full of tasty game but for us it held no cheer
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We had no guns we were traveling without hope
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But the axe it loomed so ominous and God's hand was at play
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A augmentedA sick man is a type of game which can not run away
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So stay easy, my poor man, your time's at hand

Pre-Chorus:
    C majorC              DmDm
So that night we made a fire out of twigs and out of bark
    C majorC                DmDm
And our stomachs they were rumbling all through the night so dark
 C majorC               DmDm
I can't say I feel guilty, after all it wasn't me
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But when the sun came up next morning the four had turned to three! And I said,


Chorus:
DmDm       C majorC      Bb majorBb    C majorC
Right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
DmDm   C majorC     Bb majorBb   C majorC
It's a tale they won't believe...
C majorC
When I get down to Hobart town!


Interlude:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x2


Verse 4:
     DmDm             DmDm
Well the three of us kept moving but one was fading fast
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He had been bitten by a snake and you could see he would not last
   Bb majorBb       C majorC        DmDm
Stay easy my good man your time's at hand
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And when he could last no longer his days were fading fast
    DmDm            C majorC
We were far to weak to carry him subsistency comes first
   Bb majorBb      C majorC         DmDm
Stay easy my good man your time's at hand


Pre-Chorus:
    C majorC              DmDm
So that night we made a fire out of twigs and out of bark
    C majorC                DmDm
And our stomachs they were rumbling all through the night so dark
  C majorC             DmDm
It was a messy job but it was one we had to do
       C majorC                  C majorC
But when the sun came up next day(guess what, the three had turned to two! And I said,


Chorus:
DmDm       C majorC      Bb majorBb    C majorC
Right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
DmDm   C majorC     Bb majorBb   C majorC
It's a tale they won't believe...
C majorC
When I get down to Hobart town!


Interlude:
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x2


Verse 5:
       DmDm              DmDm
Now he'd been looking at me funny, sort of eyeing me for days
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And you would not need to be too bright to know that bastard's ways:
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He was a sick man, he had murder in his heart
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But even bastards have to rest, and even bastards have to sleep
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And when he was in the land of Nod straight over I did creep
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And the axe that he had wielded now was mine


Pre-Chorus:
    C majorC               DmDm
So that night, I made the fire, out of twigs and out of bark
    C majorC              DmDm
And my stomach it kept rumbling all through the night so dark
    C majorC               DmDm
I can't say that I enjoyed it, and it wasn't exactly fun
       C majorC               C majorC
But when the sun came up next morning, the two had turned to one! And I said,


Chorus:
DmDm       C majorC      Bb majorBb    C majorC
Right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
DmDm   C majorC     Bb majorBb   C majorC
It's a tale they won't believe...
C majorC
When I get down to Hobart town!


Instrumental:
DmDm Dm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC  x4
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC   x4


Verse 6:
     DmDm              DmDm
Well now history is a pack of lies, as any fool can tell
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So when I got down to Hobart town I told my story well
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But do you think they would believe one word I said?
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they thought that I was covering for my mates still at large
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Said they'd be roaming in the bush so wild and free
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And back to old Macquarie Harbour they sent me


Pre-Chorus:
   C majorC               DmDm
But I remember the fires made out of twigs and made of bark
    C majorC                    DmDm
And my stomach it was grumbling all through the night so dark
     C majorC                 DmDm
And this young fool he just said to me it's liberty or death
    C majorC             C majorC
And he looked a rather tasty one, I just could not help it singing


Chorus:
DmDm      C majorC      Bb majorBb    BB
right there's another one, don't you frown
DmDm    C majorC    Bb majorBb   C majorC
Chew the meat and hold it down,
DmDm   C majorC     Bb majorBb   C majorC
It's a tale they won't believe...
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When I get down, when I get down,
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When I get down to Hobart town!