Your Countrys Been Sold chords by Slim Dusty

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
A augmentedA                D MajorD

Verse:
           A augmentedA
You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
                    D MajorD
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
              A augmentedA
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
                   D MajorD
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you

                A augmentedA
Our country's been sold by the powers that be
                   D MajorD
To big, wealthy nations way over the sea
        A augmentedA
We couldn't be taken with bayonets and lead
               D MajorD
And so they decided to buy us instead
A augmentedA               D MajorD


C majorC
        G+G
And talking of wars and the blood that was spilled
                       C majorC
The widows, the crippled, the ones that were killed
              G+G
And I often wonder if their ghosts can see
                   C majorC
What's happening now to their native country


      G+G
I wonder if ghosts of the fallen can see
                    C majorC
The crime and corruption and vast poverty
             G+G
With a lost generation of youth on the dole
                  C majorC
Adrift on life's ocean without any goal


D MajorD
          A augmentedA
I once had a dream of our country so grand
                  D MajorD
Where rivers outback irrigated the land
               A augmentedA
With dams and canals in that wasteland out there
                D MajorD
And big inland cities with work everywhere
               A augmentedA
The profit from factory, and farming, and mine
                D MajorD
Was used to develop a nation so fine
                A augmentedA
Then I woke from my dreaming to reality
                      D MajorD
That the wealth of our nation goes over the sea


           A augmentedA
You say you belong to Australia, my friend,
                    D MajorD
And like me you'd die for this land to defend
       A augmentedA
But let us be honest, it's sad but is true
                   D MajorD
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you
A augmentedA                   D MajorD
Australia my friend doesn't belong to you