F X33211
G X55433
Am X02210
C/G 332010
D XX0232
E5 022XXX
E4 002XXX
INTRO:
|F G|F G|F G|
VERSE 1:
F
Standing at the limit of an endless ocean,
G
Stranded like a runaway lost at sea.
F
City on a rainy day down in the harbour,
G
Watching as the gray clouds shadow the bay.
F
Looking everywhere, ‘ had to find you,
G
This is not the way that I remember it here.
F
Anyone, will tell you it's a prisoner island,
G
Hidden in the summer for a million years.
DF RAIN 1:
Am C/G D Am
Great Southern Land,
C/G D Am
They burned you black.
VERSE 2:
F
So you look into the land, it will tell you a story,
G
Story about a journey ended long ago.
F
Listen to the motion of the wind in the mountains,
G
Maybe you can hear them talking, like I do?
F
They're gonna betray you, they're gonna forget you,
G
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:
E5 E4
I hear the soun-d,
E5 E4
Of the strangers' voice-s.
E5 E4
I see their hungry eye-s,
E5 E4
Their hungry eye-s.
CHORUS 2:
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 3 & CODA:
C D Am
Gr-eat South-ern La-nd.
:: INSTRUMENTAL (Riff plays over) ::
C D Am
Great Southern Land,
C D Am
Great Southern Land,
C D Am
Great Southern Land. (Slow arpegiatted fade-out)
