The Newcastle Song

          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

[Spoken]

G                              
'Cause up in Newcastle they have 
       C
very strange mating habits
D
All the young women of Newcastle 
walk down the main street,
G                                  
Which is called Hunter Street (for 
C
reasons which will become obvious 
later on in the song)
D
And all the young men of Newcastle 
drive down Hunter Street
D
In their hot FJ Holdens with 
chrome-plated grease nipples

and double reverse overhead twin cam
 door handles
        G
Sitting eight abreast in the front 
seat
               C
And they would lean out the window
             D
And say real cool things to the 
sheilas on the footpath
                 G
Like uhhh.... 'G'day'
And every now and then of course one
                     C
 of the young ladies thinks to 
herself
D
'Ooooer' she thinks, 'ooooer'

[Chorus]

          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
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          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

[Spoken]

G                                 
Anyway there was this mob of 
          C
blokes driving down Hunter Street
                           D
In the front seat of their hot FJ 
with chrome-plated grease nipples 
and twin overhead foxtails

And the cooolest of them all - who 
got to sit near the window

Was young Normie
                  G
They pulled up outside the Parthenon
 milkbar
And standing outside the Parthenon 
         C
was this beautiful looking sheila
D
'Oooohh'....'Oooooohh'.... said 
young Normie who'd come top in his 
class in English
D                         D
'Ooooohh'... he said
D
So he leaned out the window and he 
said real, real suave like, he 
said...
             G
'Uh, G'day'
     C              D
This nine foot tall Hells Angel came
 out of the Parthenon milkbar
D
He looked at Norm and said 'Oh what 
are ya!'
                    G
Norm said 'What are you?'
                 C                 
The bloke on the footpath said 'Do 
                   D
you wanna go do ya mate, eh'
D                                 
Norm said 'yeah, do you wanna go, 
        G
mate?'
G
The bloke on the footpath said, 
'Yeah, I'll have a go'
C
Norm said, 'Do you know who ya 
pickin''
    D
The bloke on the footpath said, 
'No...who am I pickin''
                     G
Norm said, 'You find out!'
D                                 
  And all of a sudden there was a 
G
break in the traffic
       C                      
And as any young Newcastle lad 
knows, when you are getting 
 D
monstered by a
D
nine foot tall Hells Angel, and 
there's a break in the traffic....

[Chorus]

          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
          G          C         G 
Don't you ever let a chance go by
   Em
 O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by