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Across The Western Plains
or All For Me Grog


VERSE 1
G                               C           G
Well I am a ramblin' lad and me story it is sad
                 Em               Am     D
If I ever get to Lachlan I should wonder
      G            G7             C           G
For I spent all me brass in the bottom of a glass
                       Am            D7 G
And across the western plains I must wander

CHORUS
G                           C           G
And it's all for me grog me jolly jolly grog
                Em         Am    D
It's all for me beer and tobacco
      G            G7       C               G
For I spent all me tin in a shanty drinking gin
                       Am            D7 G 
Now across the Western Plains I must wander

VERSE 2
Well I'm stiff stoney broke and I've parted with me moke
And the sky is looking black as flamin' thunder
And the shanty boss is blue for I haven't got a sou
That's the way they treat you when you're down and under

CHORUS

VERSE3
Well I'm crook in the head and I haven't been to bed
Since first I touched this shanty with me plunder
I see centipedes and snakes, and I'm full of aches and shakes
And I think it's time to push for way out yonder

CHORUS

VERSE 4
I'll take that Old Man Plain and criss cross him once again
Until me eyes the track no longer see boys
And me beer and whisky brain looks for sleep but all in vain
And I feel as if I had the Darling Pea boys

CHORUS

VERSE 5
So it's hang yer jolly grog, yer hocussed shanty grog
And the beer that's laced with tobacco
Grafting humour I am in so I'll stick the peg right in
And settle down once more for some hard yakka

CHORUS

Posted by Ric Raftis.
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