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Posted By: GUEST,Don Meixner
20-Apr-19 - 11:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Add: Anderson's Coast (John Warner)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anderson's Coast (John Warner)
I worked this up a few years ago. The notes in parenthesis are walking notes.
Anderson's Coast
INTRO: C G C G
How (b)Bass (c)Strait (d)D roars,
like some (d)great mill-(d)(e)Em race.
And (e)where (f#)are (g)G you, my Annie?
And the (e) same (f#) moon (g)G shines
on this (a) lone-(b) ly (c)C place
As G (g)shone (f#)one (e)Em day
on me (e)Annie's (b)(c)C face.
CHORUS: But (d)G An (b)nie (g)dear, don't (b)G wait (c)for (f#)D me.
I (d)D fear I Em (e)shall (e)not (f#)re-(g)turn to (b)Bm thee.
There's (b)Bm naught (a)to (e)Em do but endure my (b)(c)C fate,
And (c)C watch (d)the (g)G moon,
the (c)Am lone-(d)Bm ly (c)C moon,
(D) Light the (G) breakers
on (D) wild Bass (C) Strait. (b) (a) G C G
We (G) stole (C) a (D) vessel and all her (Em) gear
And (Em) where are (G) you, my Annie?
And (C) from (D) Van (G) Diemen's,
We (Am) north (G) did (C) steer
Till (G) Bass Strait's (Em) wild waves wrecked us (C) here.
CHORUS
And G some-C where D west, Port D Melbourne Em lies
And Em where are G you, my Annie?
Through C swamps D in-G fested with Am snakes G and C flies.
The G fool who Em walks there, he surely C dies.
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK a la CHORUS
We G hail C no D ships, though the time, it Em drags.
And Em where are G you, my Annie?
Our C chain-D gang G walk and our Am govern-G ment C rags.
All G mark us Em out as Van Diemen's C lags.
CHORUS
We G fled C the D lash and the chafing Em chain.
And Em where are G you, my Annie?
We C fled D hard G labour and Am brut-G al C pain,
And G here we Em are and we re-C main.
CHORUS & END