The Bush Girl

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[Intro]
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C      C      C      C
Bm     Bm     Bm     Bm
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[Pre-verse]
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[Verse 1]
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So you rode from the range where your brothers select
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Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn
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You rode slowly at first lest her heart should suspect
         G                  C
That you were so glad to be gone

[Verse 2]
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You had scarcely the courage to glance back at her
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By the homestead receding from view
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And you breathed with relief as you rounded the spur
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For the world was a wide world to you

[Chorus]
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Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain
     C                       G
Fond heart that is ever more true
     C                           Bm
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
       C                         G
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

[Pre-verse]
G      Gmaj7  G6     G6
G      Gmaj7  G6     G6

[Verse 3]
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Ah the world is a new and a wide one to you
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But the world to your sweetheart is shut
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For a change never comes to the lonely bush girl
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From the stockyard the bush and the hut

[Verse 4]
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And the only relief from its dullness she feels
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Is when ridges grow softened and dim
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And away in the dusk to the sliprails she steals
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To dream of past meetings with you

[Chorus]
     C                          G
Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain
     C                       G
Fond heart that is ever more true
     C                           Bm
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
       C                         G
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

[Instrumental]
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G       G        Em      Em
G       G        C       C
G       G        Em      Em

[Verse 5]
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Do you think where in place of bare fences dry creeks
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Clear streams and green hedges are seen
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Where the girls have lily and rose in their cheeks
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And the grass in midsummer is green

[Verse 6]
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Do you think now and then now or then in the whirl
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Of the city while London is new
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Of the hut in the bush and the freckled-face girl
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Who is eating her heart out for you

[Chorus]
     C                          G
Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain
     C                       G
Fond heart that is ever more true
     C                           Bm
Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain
       C                         G
She'll wait by the sliprails for you

[Chorus]
           C                         G
Those grey eyes that are sadder than sunset or rain
        C                       G
Bruised heart that is ever more true
     C                        Bm
Fond faith that is firmer for trusting in vain
    C                          Bm
She waits by the sliprails for you

[Coda]
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She waits by the sliprails for you
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Waits by the sliprails for you
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Just for you