Carrington Cabaret chords by Redgum

Intro:
A Em A Em A
D F#m G A

Verse:
     D            F#m
Are you proud white Australians wherever you are?
D              A
Beer in your hand and your elbow on the bar
D          F#m
All you people from Darwin to the south
      G           A
With your blue faded jeans and a joint in your mouth

 D         F#m
Young sophisticates making the scene
     G         A
At the Lion Hotel in your rolled up jeans
D             F#m
Something going on, we're all employed
 G           A
Last night another pickininny died

G A
D F#m G A

     D             F#m
In the dirt filled gutters on the cold concrete
    G        A
At the nightclub end of Hindley Street
   D          F#m
Sit dusky young ladies learning the rules
   G            A
From drunks and traps and the hard knocks school

D           F#m
Milky brown eyes from drinking all day
      G            A
Till it's time at the Carrington Cabaret
D          F#m
Down at the port a sick black mum
G             A
Rings for a taxi but the taxi won't come

G A
G D A

Bm              F#m
It's probably too painful for us to understand
   G      A       D      A
But two hundred years ago we overran their land
D          A    Bm    F#m
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now, an alcoholic sleep
 G         A        G        A  D A D A D A
Australia land of things to do have you got time to weep

D F#m G A

    D         F#m
Oh our great free land of fire and rain
 G            A
White man's wealth and black man's pain
    D            F#m
You've got to be white if you want to get in
      G             A
It's the black man's country but the white man's in

   D            F#m
Too utter distasteful for civilized man
G           A
Hide them away in Arnhem Land
D          F#m
Shake your head and say "That's that"
    G            A
As you kick away the bottles on Pinky flat

D A Em A D A

Bm              F#m
It's probably too painful for us to understand
   G      A       D      A
But two hundred years ago we overran their land
Bm          A    Bm    F#m
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now, an alcoholic sleep
 G         A        G        A
Australia land of things to do have you got time to weep

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