The Last Frontier

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[Verse]
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It's a corrugated highway leading 
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north from Port Augusta lined
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With ratted cars that didn't rate
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 a tow
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Salt plains out of Pimba and your 
Bm
eyes begin to stream
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Onto Kingoonya, huddled dusty by 
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the road

[Verse]
  D                                
Romantic notions shattered like the
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 tyres that didn't hack it
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This has got to be the countries 
Bm       A
last frontier
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Where a sports cars next to 
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useless, running cattle grids and 
river beds
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We drove a van from 1963

[Chorus]
G                 A          D  
Someone mentioned walkabout, 
               G
kiss your job goodbye
        D                      
Just to see the country shimmer 
             A
through the windscreen
Continúa después del anuncio
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Drinking beer telling stories 
  D                   G
while laughter filled the night
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Flexitime's behind you like a bad
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 dream

[Verse]
      D                         
Got a flat on ANZAC highway and 
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Lawson on your shelf
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It's a southern comfort 
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air-conditioned rage
        D                          
Where a homesteads more than just a
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 cheap print dangling from a wall
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And mateship's more than lines 
    A
upon a page

[Chorus]
        G           A       
We went looking for Australia 
      D            G
inbetween the TV lines
           D                       
'Cause the ABC just couldn't make 
  A
it real
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A colour documentary from a 
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beanbag on the floor
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Never shows as much as it 
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conceals

[Verse]
D                                 
Stark and blistered Alice Springs 
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and a river runs with shame
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And you wipe the sheets of 
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bulldust from your eyes
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Another countries uniform, mirage it
 falls apart
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To the open gap between the truth 
    A
and lies

[Chorus]
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Go and see your country mate, 
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travel agents scream
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Politicians sell its heart just for
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 a pastime
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Signs and highwire fences of a 
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land where I belong
        D                        
It's as if I'm in the outback for 
     A
the last time

[Otro]
        G          A     D      A
For the last time     uh-huh
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For the last time     uh-huh
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For the last time     uh-huh
        G          A     D      A
For the last time     uh-huh