The Glenorchy Bunyip Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G]
[Eb][G]
[G][Bb][Eb][G]

[Verse 1]
A dragon [G]with the head of a bulldog,
A mountain with a crop of white snow,
A blue [Ab]sky over [G]Glenorchy,
[Bb]And I've got n[Eb]owhere t[G]o go.
I did[Fm]n't ask for your name

[Verse 2]
[Fm]little sister,
I didn't ask for you to come
through the door.
[G]I dreamed of a face, a curtain of lace,
[Bb]An apple [Eb]that had no [G]core.

[Verse 3]
[G]A tail with the girth of a fat man's thigh
Slid up around the corner and
was burnt upon my eye[Ab],
A winter light confused my sight
in Glen[G]orchy tonight
When I thought [Bb]that I [Eb]had nothing [G]to see.
So I asked [Fm]the lady at

[Verse 4]
13,
Invalid at 32,
With a bottle of red,
only fresh [C]from bed,
[Fm]By the letterbox.
[G]She thinks she doesn't see
The things I think I see,
[Bb]Blind by [Eb]11 and wearing her dead
mother's sock[G]s.

[Interlude 1]
Alright
[G][Ab][G]

[Verse 5]
I was hiding [G]in the Swan Terrace garden,
I saw the to and fro- ing, come and going of the street,
There's not a lot of doing in
Glenorchy [G]of a Tuesday,
[Bb]Shivering I [Eb]accepted my [G]defeat.
[Fm]But as I rose up ginger I

[Verse 6]
[Fm]
was arrested by a sight
That flickered in [C]my peri[Fm]phery,
A [G]reflection in a Hillman Hunter window,
[Bb]I saw that [Eb]the creature [G]was me.

[Verse 7]
Now [G]the heart of a monster is
the heart of a child
Who never had to grow into a man -
If [Ab]nobody could recognise
the Bunyip [G]of Glenorchy,
Then [Bb]wherever there's
[Eb]a monster no- [G]one can,
Then [Bb]wherever there's
[Eb]a monster no- [G]one can,
Then [Bb]wherever there's
[Eb]a monster no- [G]one can.