Carrington Cabaret chords by Redgum

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
D MajorD F# minorF#m G+G A augmentedA

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

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

G+G A augmentedA
D MajorD F# minorF#m G+G A augmentedA

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

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

G+G A augmentedA
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA

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

D MajorD F# minorF#m G+G A augmentedA

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

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

D MajorD A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA

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

Outro: