Icehouse - Great Southern Land

      
 
 INTRO:
 |E F#|E F#|E F#|
 
 VERSE 1:
                 E                         
 Standing at the limit of an endless ocean,
                 F#                  
 Stranded like a runaway lost at sea.
 E                                       
 City on a rainy day down in the harbour,
             F#                             
 Watching as the gray clouds shadow the bay.
              E                        
 Looking everywhere, ' had to find you,
             F#                              
 This is not the way that I remember it here.
              E                               
 Anyone, will tell you it's a prisoner island,
           F#                             
 Hidden in the summer for a million years.
 
 REFRAIN 1:
                Am   C/G D Am 
 Great Southern Land,
                       C/G D Am 
 They burned you black.
 
 VERSE 2:
             E                                       
 So you look into the land, it will tell you a story,
               F#                     
 Story about a journey ended long ago.
               E                                   
 Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains,
               F#                           
 Maybe you can hear them talking, like I do?
               E                                    
 They're gonna betray you, they're gonna forget you,
                        F#                     
 Are you gonna let them take you over that way?
 
 CHORUS 1:
                Am   C D Am 
 Great Southern Land,
                     C D Am 
 In the sleeping sun.
                C D Am 
 You walk alone,
                        C D Am 
 With the ghost of time.
                           C D Am 
 And they burned you black,
                          C D Am 
 Black against the ground.
                       C D Am 
 And they make it work,
                     C D Am 
 With rocks and sand.
 
 VERSE 3:
 D#m              C#m5 Dm5 
 I hear the sound,
 D#m                      C#m5 Dm5 
 Of the strangers' voices.
 D#m                     C#m5 Dm5 
 I see their hungry eyes,
 D#m               C#m5 Dm5 
 Their hungry eyes.
                Am   C D Am 
 Great Southern Land,
                     C D Am 
 Great Southern Land.
                C D Am 
 You walk alone,
                      C D Am 
 Like a primitive man.
                C D Am 
 You walk alone,
                        C D Am 
 With the ghost of time.
 C D* Am
 And they burned you black,
                            C D Am 
 Yeah, they burned you black.
 
 CHORUS & CODA:
                        C D Am 
 Gr-eat South-ern La-nd.
 
 :: INSTRUMENTAL (Riff-over) ::
                     C D Am 
 Great Southern Land,
                     C D Am 
 Great Southern Land,
                     C D Am 
 Great Southern Land.
 
 Iva Davies: 'Thank you very much, indeed!'
 
 (End)