Tenterfield Saddler Chords by Peter Allen

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I always wanted to write an Australian song _ and _ I did.
When I went back to Australia a couple of years ago, a few years ago now, _
my grandfather just died and he was [Bb] a saddle maker in a little town of Tenerfield. _ _ _ _
So I wrote this song [G] about him and me [Gb] and I called it Tenerfield [F] Saddler.
_ Late George Woolno [C] _ _
worked on High Street, _ [Dm] _
lived on Manners.
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_ Fifty-two [F] years he sat on his veranda _ and made his saddle.
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_ [Am] _ _ [Bb] And if you [F] had questions [C] about sheep or flowers or _ dogs,
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[F] you'd just ask a saddler.
_ _ [C] He lived without sin, _ [F] the building a library for him.
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_ Time [C] is a _ [Dm] traveller, _ [Am] Tenerfield Saddler, [F] _ _ turn your head.
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_ [F] Right again, Jackaroo, I think I see _ _ Kangaroo up a hill.
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_ _ _ [F] The son of George Woolno _ [C] went off and got married _ [F] and had a war baby.
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Something was wrong [F] and it's easier to drink than go crazy.
[C] _ _ [Bb] And if there were questions [C] about why the end was [Am] so sad,
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_ George [F] had no _ answers about why a [C] son _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _
ever has a need of [F] a gun. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Time is a [C] _ [Dm] traveller, _ _ [F] Tenerfield Saddler, [Gm] turn [C] your head.
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[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ Right again, Jackaroo, [Bb] I think I see _ Kangaroo [F] _
up a hill. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [F] The grandson of George has [C] been all around [A] the world.
He [Dm] lives no special [F] place, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] changed his last name,
[F] and he married a girl [C] with an interesting _ _ face. _
_ _ _ _ [Bb] He'd almost _ forgotten [C] them both _ because in [Am] this life that he leads,
[F] _ _
there's nowhere for [C] George and his library or the son with his gun [F] to belong.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [G] Except in [Gm] this song.
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[Am] Time is a [Dm] traveller, _ [C] Tenerfield _ [Gm] Saddler, turn [C] your head.
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Right again, Jackaroo, I think I see _ [F] Kangaroo _ up a hill.
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Oh, _ _ [D] _ [G] time is [D] a meddler, [Em] _ _
[Bm] Tenerfield Saddler, [C] _
make [D] your _ [Am] bed. _
_ [D] _ _ _ [C] Fly away, _ cockatoo, down on the ground, leave [G] you up ahead.
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[D] _ _ _ [G] Time is [D] a tell [Em]-taler, _ [D] Tenerfield Saddler, [Am] turn _ [D] your head.
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[D] _ _ _ [C] Right again, Jackaroo, I think I see _ Kangaroo [G] _ _ _
up [C] a hill. _ _
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