Carrington Cabaret Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A][G][A][D][F#m][G][A][G]
Are [A]you proud

[Verse 1]
[D]white
Australians [F#m]wherever you are?

[Verse 2]
[G]Beer in your hand and your
el[A]bow on the bar

[Verse 3]
[D]All you people from Dar
[F#m]win to the south

[Verse 4]
With your [G]blue faded jeans and
[A]a joint in your [G]mouth

[Verse 5]
[D]Young [F#m]sophisticates making the scene

[Verse 6]
At the [G]Lion Hotel in your
[A]rolled up jeans

[Verse 7]
[D]Something going on,
we're [F#m]all employed

[Verse 8]
[G]Last night [A]another pickininny died

[Interlude 1]
[G][A][G][A][D][F#m][G][A]

[Verse 9]
In [D]the dirt filled gutters on [F#m]the cold concrete

[Verse 10]
At [G]the nightclub end of [A]Hindley Street

[Verse 11]
Sit [D]dusky young ladies
[F#m]learn ing the rules

[Verse 12]
From [G]drunks and traps and
the [A]hard knocks school

[Verse 13]
[D]Milky brown eyes from [F#m]drinking all day

[Verse 14]
Till it's [G]time at the Carrington [A]Cabaret
[G]

[Verse 15]
[D]Down at the port a [F#m]sick black mum

[Verse 16]
[G]Rings for a taxi but [A]the taxi

[Interlude 2]
won't come
[A][G][A][G][A]

[Verse 17]
It's [Bm]probably too painful
for [F#m]us to understand

[Verse 18]
But [G]two hundred [A]years ago we [D]overran
their [A]land

[Verse 19]
[Bm]
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now,
an [F#m]alcoholic sleep

[Verse 20]
Aus[G]tralia land of [A]things to do have [G]you got

[Interlude 3]
time to weep
[A][G][A][G][A][D][F#m][G]
[A]

[Verse 21]
Oh our [D]great free land of [F#m]fire and rain

[Verse 22]
[G]White man's wealth and
black [A]man's pain

[Verse 23]
You've [D]got to be white if
you [F#m]want to get in

[Verse 24]
It's the [G]black man's country
but the [A]white man's in

[Verse 25]
Too ut[D]ter distasteful [F#m]for civilized man

[Verse 26]
[G]Hide them away in [A]Arnhem Land

[Verse 27]
[D]Shake your head [F#m]and say "That's that"

[Verse 28]
As you [G]kick away the bottles
on [A]Pinky flat

[Interlude 4]
[A][G][A][G][A]

[Verse 29]
It's [Bm]probably too painful
for [F#m]us to understand

[Verse 30]
But [G]two hundred [A]years ago we [D]overran
their [A]land

[Verse 31]
[Bm]
Dreamtime's just a nightmare now,
an [F#m]alcohol sleep

[Verse 32]
Aus[G]tralia land of [A]things to do
have [G]you got time to weep

[Outro 1]
[A][G][A][G][A]