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The Last Frontier

This is from Redgum's "Caught in the act" live album. It's about a road
trip up the Stuart Highway to Alice Springs so the placenames are from
around there.

(Chord progression 1)
Chord diagramD MajorD                                 Chord diagramDmaj7Dmaj7
It's a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta line
     Chord diagramB minorBm               Chord diagramG+G      (Chord diagramB minorBm)   Chord diagramA augmentedA
With ratted cars that didn't rate a tow
Chord diagramD MajorD                                 Chord diagramB minorBm
Salt plains out of Pimba and your eyes begin to stream
     Chord diagramG+G                  Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramA augmentedA
Onto Kingoonya, huddled dusty by the road

(Progression 1)
Romantic notions shattered like the tyres that didn't hack it
This has got to be the countries last frontier
Where a sports cars next to useless, running cattle grids and river beds
We drove a van from 1963

(Chord progression 2)
Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramD MajorD                 Chord diagramG+G
Someone mentioned walkabout, kiss your job goodbye
        Chord diagramD MajorD                                   Chord diagramD MajorD
Just to see the country shimmer through the windscreen
Chord diagramG+G                     Chord diagramA augmentedA             Chord diagramD MajorD                   Chord diagramG+G
Drinking beer telling stories while laughter filled the night
Chord diagramD MajorD                            Chord diagramA augmentedA            Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramD MajorD  Chord diagramA augmentedA
Flexitimes behind you like a bad dream

(Progression 1)
Got a flat on ANZAC highway and Lawson on your shelf
It's a southern comfort air-conditioned rage
Where a homesteads more than just a cheap print dangling from a wall
And mateships more than lines upon a page

(Progression 2)
We went looking for Australia inbetween the TV lines
'Cause the ABC just couldn't make it real
Colour documentary from a beanbag on the floor
Never shows as much as it conceals

(Progression 1)
Stark and blistered Alice Springs and a river runs with shame
And you wipe the sheets of bulldust from your eyes
Another countries uniform, mirage it falls apart
To the open gap between the truth and lies

(Progression 2)
Go and see your country mate, travel agents scream
Politicians sell its heart just for a pasttime
Signs and highwire fences of a land where I belong
It's as if I'm in the outback for the last time

        Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramA augmentedA   Chord diagramD MajorD
For the last time     (uh-huh)   (x4)


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