Hows Your Memory - Slim Dusty

Hows Your Memory

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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
F F D D
C C G C
 
[Chorus]
C G
How's your memory, can you recall?
C
Way back when we had it all,
G
Places and faces and names that we know,
C
We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,
F D
How's your memory, can you recall,
C G C
Way back when we had it all.
 
[Interlude]
D D G C
 
[Verse 1]
F C
Great nights by the radio,
G C
Listenin’ to Davey, Dyer and Mo,
F C
Sunday morning, bacon and eggs,
D G
With Fatty Finn and Ginger Meggs.
 
[Interlude]
D D G G
 
[Verse 2]
C G
Each year to the show we went,
C
First stop was Sharman's tent,
F C
Bradman, Laver and Darby Munroe.
G C
Surely it wasn't that long ago?
F C
Jackie Howe singlets and the ole steam train
D G
Indigo Jones and sweet summer rain.
 
[Interlude]
D D G G
 
[Chorus]
C G
How's your memory, can you recall?
C
Way back when we had it all,
G
Places and faces and names that we know,
C
We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,
F D
How's your memory, can you recall,
C G C
Way back when we had it all.
 
[Interlude]
D D G C
 
[Verse 3]
F C
A Wieneke saddle and laughin’ side boots
G C
Wide brimmed hat and a gabardine suit,
F C
Mutton, damper and cockies joy,
D G
Anthony Hordens and ole Mark Foy's.
 
[Interlude]
D D G G
 
[Verse 4]
C G
J.C Williamson, the Southern Cross,
C
Movietone News and Irish Moss,
F C
St Kilda, Bondi and Glenelg Trams,
G C
The Gabba and the WACA and IXL jams,
F C
Quid notes and Zacs and thrupenny bits
D G
Bluey and Curley might take it they bit.
 
[Interlude]
D D G G
 
[Chorus]
C G
How's your memory, can you recall?
C
Way back when we had it all,
G
Places and faces and names that we know,
C
We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,
F D
How's your memory, can you recall,
C G C
Way back when we had it all.
 
[Interlude]
D D G C
 
[Verse 5]
C G
Now years have rolled on and places have changed,
C
Places are different and accents strange,
G
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Jim Beam and coke,
C
More and more guys and less and less blokes,
F C
H bombs, French fries and tasty Big Mac
G C
Hold that half dozen, I’ll take a six pack,
F C
Toyotas and Hondas and a few more yen,
D G
A lot more persons than women or men.
 
[Interlude]
D D G G
 
[Chorus]
C G
How's your memory, can you recall?
C
Way back when we had it all,
G
Places and faces and names that we know,
C
We’re building our spirit and helping us grow,
F D
How's your memory, can you recall,
C G C
Way back when we had it all.
 
[Outro]
D G C
Way back when we had it all;
D G C
Way back when we had it all;
D G C
Back back back we had it all;
D G C
Way back when we had it all;
D G C
Way back when we had it all. What a stuff up.

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