Innaminka Muster

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D|strumming pattern and do the same style 
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with the different chords. 
                           
                           


[Intro]
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[Verse]
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Oh, they'd mustered all the cattle
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 on the Innamincka run,
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And also on Cordilla Downs the same
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 thing had been done,
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They shifted all the cows an' 
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calves, the bullocks and the steers,
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The biggest bank tell muster job 
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for many, many years.

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Oh the Diamantina channels and the 
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lignum now are bare
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Some wide eyed long horned pikers 
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were all they'd left out there,
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Next day the helicopters came and 
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cleared them from the run,
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The mickeys didn't stand a chance, 
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they shot 'em one by one.

Disease and blight had struck the 
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herd, the beasts all had to go,
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To save the export market and 
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increase the money flow,
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Though it wasn't a very pretty 
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scene to see the pikers fall,
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And pilot of the chopper, didn't 
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like the job at all.

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And the stockmen riding shotgun 
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did his best to keep it clean,
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He tried his best for one shot 
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kills to ease the grizzly scene,
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But soon the job was over and the 
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land allowed to spell,
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Once again the stony desert had a 
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tragic tale to tell.

[Instrumental]
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They wait now for the seasons to 
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rejuvenate the land,
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Restock again with breeders and 
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keep them well in hand,
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Oh the flood plains then will 
prosper and the blight will be no 
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more,
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Once more the stockmen riding, like
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 they used to do before.

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And the cattle camps be busy with a 
new and stronger breed,
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As they muster through the lignum 
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where the cattle love to feed,
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Through the sand hills of Cordilla 
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or the Innamincka Plains,
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Once more we'll see the stockmen's 
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hands rest slightly on the reins.

At the Innamincka muster, there were
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 choppers in the sky,
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Cattle country gun ships with the 
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rifleman on high,
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Oh the pikers didn't stand a 
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chance, cattle war was won,
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Beside the stony desert where they 
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shot 'em one by one.

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Old timers had another way, they'd 
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very seldom fail,
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To block the way with mickey, and 
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throw him by the tail,
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But now the ringer's airborne, 
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helicopters on the go,
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In the Diamantina country where the
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 channels waters flow.
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Where the channels waters flow.
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