Your Countrys Been Sold chords by Slim Dusty

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
A                               D

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

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


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


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


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


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