Chords for Eric Bogle - National Pride

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_ _ _ He asked me if I'll feel pride [Db] when our country's [Bbm] flag is raised
_ [Bb] Above the winners' rostrum [Eb] and our national anthems played
While the winners stand with flowers in hand [Db] and medals [Bb] round their necks
[Eb] We can all share in their glory, _ but not their sponsors' checks
And _ the press will call them heroes, we'll puff out [Bb] our collective chest
For living in a land that breeds the [Eb] fastest and the best
And while I dip my old Akubra to [Db] their talent [Cm] and [Bbm] their skill
_ [Bb] I can't call them heroes, and guess I [Ab] never will
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But you asked me [F] the question, [Eb]
so I'll tell you [F] no _ [Eb] lies
I'll feel many, [Fm] many things, but I [Bb] won't [Eb] feel _ pride _ _
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You see, [Eb] last year in Victoria, [Ab] _
down a [Cm] smoke-filled [Bbm] forest track
[Eb] Some real heroes and real heroines tried to turn the bushfire back
All through the day they fought the blaze, [C]
exhaustion, heat [Bbm] and fear
[Bb] Ordinary Aussie men and women, _ _ CFS and [Ab] _ Volunteer
But _ _ the fire turned like a corned snake, [C] roaring down the [Bb] _ _ mountainside
And in that choking, smoking [Eb] hell, five brave men died
Not for medals, not for money, [Fm] not for glory, [Bb] not for fame
_ [Eb] And tell me who amongst you now _ remembers their [Ab] names _ _ _
But I'll wander on [Fm] to _ [Eb] Mountaintop and shout their [F] names out loud _
They made me feel [Fm] _ Australian, and [Db] that [Bb] made me [Eb] feel proud _ _
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_ [Ab] Now the _ Volunteers got lots of press [Db] who said the tragedy [Bbm] had shown _
[Bb] _ Australians still would give their all [Eb] to save their neighbours' homes
They got thanks and praise and _ eulogies [Db] for the true blue [Bbm] Aussie pluck
[Bb] They got _ everything but money to buy new and safer [Ab] trucks _ _ _
For every gold Olympic medal that [Db] we won four [Bbm] years ago
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Someone worked out each one cost [Eb] fifty million dollars or so
Seems like a hefty price to pay [Db] just to flaunt our [Bbm] pedigree
_ _ [Bb] Somewhere our values have gone to hell, but maybe [Eb] it's just me _ _ _ _
Black smoke for [F] the funeral [Eb] pyre, white ash for [Fm] the [Eb] shroud
Feel anger, grief [F] and pain and [Db] loss, [Eb] but feel proud _ _ _
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Not [Eb] for medals, not for money, [Fm] not for glory, [Bbm] not for fame
[Bb] They don't see themselves as heroes, [Eb] I wouldn't answer to the name
It's been much abused and overused, [C] but I use it [Bbm] nonetheless
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every man and woman in the Australian _ _ _ CFS _ _
No fist raised in fleeting [F] triumph _ above the cheering _ crowd
[Ab] Just long years of quiet [Fm] courage [Db] that should [F] make us feel _ proud _
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_ [Ab] Yes, I want to run [Fm] to _
[Eb] mountaintop and shout their [F] names out loud
[Eb] _ They made me feel [Fm] _ Australian and [Db] that [Bb] made me [Ab] feel proud _ _ _ _ _
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