Crusader (Mick Hanly)

From the Mary Black songbook (note: this is Declan Sinnott's arrangement; I'm sure Mick played it more simply)

     E
  There's a wilderness, it's a no man's land
  
          A                     E
  Between Alice Springs and the ocean
  
  B                 B7               E
  Seventeen hundred miles of burning sand
  
        E
  And a silken thread keeps a hold on you
  
           A                E      
  When the emptiness like a potion 
  
  B                  B7               E
  tends to fray your reason strand by strand
  
              G#
  And there's no more need for the mask you wear
  
                C#m      B         E
  When the last goodbyes have been said
  
     B        E             C#m
  So kiss the cheeks of you dearest friends
  
      B           F#7     B
  And turn to the desert ahead
  
             E
  Now you're on your own like a sailing ship
  
             A                 E
  You're the captain, crew and sailors
  
  B                       B#dim7   C#m      F#7
  Turn around and this is what you see
  
  Chorus
  
          B  F#7    B       G#m
  This is me facing me all alone
  
           C#9no 3rd F#m         E                   B  F#7  B
  'Cause I choose to be with the wind and the sun on me only me