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Australian Dream Chords by The Pretty Littles

Australian Dream chords by The Pretty Littles

Guitar chords with lyrics

  • Capo on 1st
  • Difficulty: Beginner 👶
Verse 1:

E        Em             Em
Here's a version of the Australian dream
E          Em             Em
Some outer suburb, in the 1950s
E          Em                  Em
Exchanging pleasantries like a sport
E         Em
Keep it polite,
         Em
keep it short, firm hand shakes
       E
Have a nice day
            Em           Em
Oh would you look at that
F#        B
Might be rain
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E F# B
E F#Verse 2:

E              Em
They had a few kids
           Em
Frank had a good job
They looked the part
E           Em           Em
He wasn't a doctor, or a lawyer, But not far off,
E         Em
Church on Sundays
                    Em
The kids, they were bright enough
E               Em            Em  F# B
Nothing for the neighbours to talk about

E F# B
E F#Verse 3:

E            Em
but then dot changed
Em
after the last child came along
E                  Em
Her behaviour became erratic
      Em
in her brain was substatic
    E            Em
And she gave the neighbours
             Em
Something to talk about
        E                 Em
All the eyebrows starting raising
      Em
over  cuppas, scones and raisins
       E       Em          Em
Just a few bad days they'd say
E         Em       Em F# B
She'll be right as rain

♫ Chorus:

F#                         E F#     B
Spooked like a horse in a passing storm
      F#                   E F#  B
Look away be the loveable larrikin
      F#                           E F# B
Look away like we have from the beginning
    F#                         E F#        B
I'm sleepwalking through your Australian dream

♫ Verse 4:

E             Em                           Em
The old Holden started to shake until the wheels fell off
E                Em
Something wasn't right
Em
The numbers weren't stacking up
       E              Em
There's posttraumatic stresses
    Em
and financial pressures
    E         Em    Em
And all those kids, howling for attention
E                     Em          Em
All those things that people just couldn't mention
E             Em         Em
Weak, soft as butter, stop seeking attention
E                Em
Two world wars, faught and won
Em
The dark days were over
E         Em           Em               F#
All those boys died so we could live in peace
B   F#     E F# B
and prosperity
F#                           E F# B
everything's a blessing for you and me
F#                       E F# B
and all those aches and pains
            F#
theyre just tricks of the mind,
        E           F#        B
theyre illusions a waste of time
     F#                        E   F#  B
I'm sleepwalking through your Australian dream

♫ Verse 5:

E       Em
They put Dot in a home
Em
Sent her off to the funny farm
E    Em
Her problems couldnt be fixed
Em
with a walk around the block
     E                Em                          Em
they found her in the middle of the street crying out "arnt we lucky? aint life sweet "
E                           Em
frank couldnt deal with her mess
    Em
the kids were sent away with the shame of it
E
one of them was orphaned
    Em                Em
the youngest with mrs gorden around the corner
                  E
the eldest he was six
                        Em
stayed at home looking around
          Em         F#               B
wondering where everyone had fucking gone

♫ Chorus:

F#                         E F#     B
Spooked like a horse in a passing storm
      F#                   E F#  B
Look away be the loveable larrikin
      F#                           E F# B
Look away like we have from the beginning
    F#                         E F#        B
I'm sleepwalking through your Australian dream
     F#                               E F# B
The mirage at the bottom of all your talking

♫ Verse 6:

E           Em
after a few years
Em
things became stable
       E             Em
it was put down as suburban bad dream
Em
in some outer suburb in the 50s
E                 Em
a speedhump, an anomaly,
Em
a strange turn in the quest for normality
E       Em
in the end they achieved their goal
Em                                                E            Em      Em
everyone including the neighbours stopped talking about the entire episode
    E
but what of the hangover
    Em
the dodgy foundations
Em
supporting the next generation
E                  Em
all those things i mentioned
Em
mis-rememebered
too embarrassed to admit it
   E                         Em      Em
to committed to a concept to express ?
    E             Em                               Em
and anyways we got all those photos hanging on the wall
But dont the eyes say it all
E                     Em
But dont the eyes say more
         Em      F#    B
than the smiles ever could

♫ Chorus:

F#                         E F#    Em
Spooked like a horse in a passing storm
      F#                   E F#  B
Look away be the loveable larrikin
      F#                           E F# B
Look away like we have from the beginning
    F#                         Em F#        B
I'm sleepwalking through your Australian dream
     F#                                E F# B
The mirage at the bottom of all your talking
F#                           Em F# B
How Do we fix something so broken
F#                            Em F# B
How Do you fix something so broken
    F#                          Em   B
And what of the giant when hes broken

♫ Outro:
E Em Em
E Em Em
E Em Em
E Em Em
E

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