Last Thing To Learn chords by Slim Dusty

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Eb MajorEb
: Chords relative to capo 3.

🎸 Intro:

C majorC


🎸 Verse:
 C majorC        E MajorE        FF      C majorC
A augmentedA pushbike with a sugar bag, tied to its handlebars,
  G+G                    C majorC
was leaning against the pub they called "the star".
         E MajorE    FF         C majorC
Inside I saw its owner, a tall and thin old man
G+G               C majorC
sitting on a stool beside the bar.

🎸 Verse:
 G+G              FF      C majorC
I dunno why I ask him, if he'd join me in a beer,
    D MajorD                  G7G7
but he looked at me and a smile lit up his face,
   C majorC         E MajorE         FF        C majorC
"Oh, I'd only have the two he said, or I have to ride my bike,
    G+G                C majorC
but on this occasion three's not out of place".


🎸 Verse:
  C majorC          E MajorE         FF        C majorC
He said "I've been here thinkin' just how much we learn in life,
  G+G                C majorC
we have to learn to crawl before we walk.
           E MajorE      FF        C majorC
we start our learning on the very day that we are born,
 FF                 C majorC
before too long we have to learn to talk.


🎸 Verse:
  G+G               FF         C majorC
and later on, we go to school, we learn to read and write,
  D7D7               G+G
and also have to learn the rule of three.
   C majorC         E MajorE       FF         C majorC
Then comes the time, we go to work, we have to learn our job,
    G+G                   C majorC
and on this depends what our future life will be.

🎸 Verse:
   C majorC      E MajorE             FF         C majorC
Then later on we have to learn if what the good book says is true
    G7G7                   C majorC
when we reach our span of three score years and ten
           E MajorE          FF        C majorC
its then we learn the one last thing that there is left to learn
       G+G                  C majorC
if there’s another life than this weary world of men


🎸 Verse:
  G+G                 FF         C majorC
he said goodbye and thank you for the drink and for the talk
 D7D7                 G7G7
I watched him mount his bike and ride away
 C majorC       E MajorE    FF        C majorC
I made myself a promise, I'd be here next week
  G7G7                 C majorC
to listen to the things that he might say


🎸 Instrumental:
C majorC  E MajorE  FF  C majorC
G+G     C majorC


🎸 Verse:
   C majorC         E MajorE          FF      C majorC
Then came the day that I went there to the Tampo star hotel
    G+G               C majorC
but his pushbike wasn't leaning by the wall
        E MajorE       FF         C majorC
another man was sitting on the stool where he had sat
   G7G7              C majorC
and I felt my happy spirits kind of fall


🎸 Verse:
 G+G                  FF         C majorC
I asked the man behind the bar if the old chap had been in
    D7D7               G7G7
and was saddened by the words he had to say
 C majorC       E MajorE           FF     C majorC
no, he said he's not been in, and he’ll never be again,
  G+G                  C majorC
our old mates gone, he was buried yesterday


🎸 Verse:
C majorC            E MajorE  FF                C majorC
I took my glass in silence
and looked out along the road
D7D7                       G+G
  Where just last week I watched him ride away
   C majorC          E MajorE         FF        C majorC
Oh, I knew he’d learn the one last thing, he said was left to learn
      G+G               C majorC   F7F7 Fm7Fm7 C majorC
The secret of that other life he knows today.