The Golden Mile chords by Spy Vs Spy

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
F#m      A        E        D
F#m      A        E        E
F#m      A        E        D
F#m      A        E        E


Verse 1:
    F#m                  A
The whole town's on the loop line
E                 D
Two up rules the day
F#m              A
Pennies rising with the sun
  E                     E
Except for the day that mum gets her pay
    F#m                A
The black man and the white man
     E                         D
Are scratching their sunburnt face
      F#m                   A
While digging themselves a hole in the ground
    E              E
To find a better place,  whoa oh

Chorus:
D
Everybody wants a holiday
E
With a full day's pay
D
Some people need it. Some people steal it
E
Some people have it anyway


Interlude:
F#m      A        E        D
F#m      A        E        E
F#m      A        E        D
F#m      A        E        E


Verse 2:
F#m               A
Children watch a father
E                      D
Twelve hours full of sweat
F#m                A
Look in his eye and see the future
E                    E
In the leather skin spinners bet
          F#m                A
While the black man and the white man
     E                      D
Are scratching their weary face
              F#m                  A
While they're digging themselves a hole in the ground
   E               E
To find a better place,  whoa oh


Chorus:
D
Everybody wants a holiday
E
With a full day's pay
D
Some people need it. Some people steal it
E
Some people have it anyway
D
Can you see your children falling
E
Down Kalgoorlie's hill, whoa oh
D                               E
Can they see the future in the mi-ner's


Refrain:
        A        C#m             D           E
Golden swill   (When’s it gonna rain?)
        A        C#m             D           E
Golden swill   (When’s it gonna come?)
A        C#m        D          E               A        C#m
                                  It's been a long time sweating
          D              E
When you run the golden mile
       A         C#m              D          E
Oh Kalgoorlie   (When's it gonna rain?)
       A         C#m              D          E
Oh Kalgoorlie   (When's it gonna come?)


Outro:
D        A        D        E
D        A        D        E