Last Thing To Learn chords by Slim Dusty

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: Eb
: Chords relative to capo 3.

🎸 Intro:

C


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

🎸 Verse:
  G                            F            C
I dunno why I ask him, if he'd join me in a beer,
       D                                   G7
but he looked at me and a smile lit up his face,
     C                 E                 F               C
"Oh, I'd only have the two he said, or I have to ride my bike,
       G                                C
but on this occasion three's not out of place".


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


🎸 Verse:
    G                             F                 C
and later on, we go to school, we learn to read and write,
    D7                             G
and also have to learn the rule of three.
     C                  E              F                 C
Then comes the time, we go to work, we have to learn our job,
       G                                      C
and on this depends what our future life will be.


🎸 Verse:
     C           E                         F                 C
Then later on we have to learn if what the good book says is true
        G7                                      C
when we reach our span of three score years and ten
                      E                   F                C
its then we learn the one last thing that there is left to learn
             G                                   C
if there’s another life than this weary world of men


🎸 Verse:
   G                                  F                 C
he said goodbye and thank you for the drink and for the talk
  D7                                  G7
I watched him mount his bike and ride away
  C             E        F                C
I made myself a promise, I'd be here next week
   G7                                 C
to listen to the things that he might say


🎸 Instrumental:
C    E    F    C
G         C


🎸 Verse:
     C                 E                   F            C
Then came the day that I went there to the Tampo star hotel
        G                              C
but his pushbike wasn't leaning by the wall
                E              F                  C
another man was sitting on the stool where he had sat
      G7                            C
and I felt my happy spirits kind of fall


🎸 Verse:
  G                                   F                 C
I asked the man behind the bar if the old chap had been in
        D7                              G7
and was saddened by the words he had to say
  C              E                      F         C
no, he said he's not been in, and he’ll never be again,
    G                                   C
our old mates gone, he was buried yesterday


🎸 Verse:
C                       E   F                               C
I took my glass in silence
and looked out along the road
D7                                              G
   Where just last week I watched him ride away
      C                   E                  F                C
Oh, I knew he’d learn the one last thing, he said was left to learn
           G                             C     F7  Fm7  C
The secret of that other life he knows today.