Send Er Down Hughie
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: CCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
F F C C C
[Verse]
C
Oh, the radio tells me it's raining
G
But that I can see for myself.
And they tell me a cyclone is coming
C
Oh, I surely could do with some help.
F C
This little old shovel I'm holding,
F
Looks puny beside this big Mac.
C
She's down to the diff and still going
G C
And there's only more mud up the track.
[Verse]
C
Oh, I've revved and I've rocked and reversed it,
G
Oh, I've dug at the mud on the wheels,
I've kicked and I've swore, and I've cursed it,
C
And to the good Lord I've appealed.
F C
But the line up to heaven ain’t open,
F
I've a feeling I'm not getting through.
C
Oh, I'll just have to lighten the loadin'
G C
One carton of stubbies should do.
[Interlude]
F F C C C
[Verse]
C
Oh, I wonder if ever they'd miss it,
G
One carton from all of those tons.
But I'll bet you they'd be asking "where is it?"
C
And lickin' their dry dusty tongues.
F C
Oh, I can picture those miners all dying
F
Of thirst in that drought-stricken town.
C
While here in the mud I've been tryin'
G C
And striving to put the booze down.
[Verse]
C
And in each of these stubbies I empty,
G
I insert a small note of distress,
And cast it adrift in the gully,
C
An SOS out of the west.
F C
How many days have I languished,
F
Here in this swamp called a road,
C
While in my despair and my anguish,
G C
I've been working at lightening the load.
[Interlude]
C F C C C C
F F F F C C
C C D D
[Verse]
D
Perhaps some old fisherman casting
A7
His line on the Barrier Reef
Will see all these stubbies go past him
D
And come sailing up to my relief.
G D
And won't we all have such a booze up.
G
The best ever seen on this road.
G D
But I doubt if they ever will choose us
A7 D
To carry their next flamin' load.
[Verse]
A7 D
So, good health to the sandflies and skeeters,
A7
Good luck to that solemn old frog.
Oh, I'm damned if this rain's going to beat us
D
Thank hell for this truck load of grog.
G D
Oh, send ‘er down Hughie, you beauty.
G
You got the right knack a-doing it now.
D
All my sorrows are drowned well and truly,
A7 D
And there's plenty more booze to put down. Ah.
[Outro]
D G
Oh it's a lonesome a-what am i doing in this mud
A7 D
stuck in the truck and a-driving
D G A7 D
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