Chords for Troy Cassar-Daley & Colin Buchanan - Family Farm

[G] There is another guest.
This next fella I take great pride in saying that he's written some songs with me
which [D#m] will be right up there with my personal [Gm] favourites.
Ones that I [A] don't skip to when I get to them on the iPod if it's on [G] random and all that stuff.
Not going to listen to this little much.
But if I put it on that [F] sort of shuffle thing, sometimes one of Cole's songs will come up.
[D] And this fella's written [G] songs like Trains, They Don't [F] Make Em Like That Anymore, This [C#] Day Is Mine.
And he wrote [G] a song called Sing About This Country with me as well which makes me feel even more proud to be in Australia.
And he's a great fella.
[D#] Please make all the best of [N] Cole and New Canterbury. _ _
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_ _ [Em] Come on the edge of the lamp.
[F#] _ _ _
[D#] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] Sorry I didn't say that on [N] mic thankfully.
Cole how has your festival been?
[D#] Oh it's been terrific so far.
[B] It's been a couple of years.
Hello band.
By the way, here [G] they are.
[D#] Talented bunch aren't they?
[G] And this bloke up the front.
It's unbelievable.
You know what, I [G#] didn't know.
[D#m] I was driving into town [G] and I couldn't remember where I was.
I was disorientated.
And I wasn't [D] sure what town [D#] I was in.
And I couldn't see a sign for Tamworth.
But I thought [N] 37 signs.
Troy Cassaday, [G] Live CD, DVD.
_ I've never seen that.
Everywhere I look.
Ah!
[G#m] There he is.
[G] And here you are.
See?
How's it going?
Mate I'm doing great.
I'm just glad to have friends coming along.
It sounds so good.
I've just been sitting back [A] there and you know, [D#] Chambers, Williams, Harvey.
[N] I think wow.
It's all going to go downhill now.
It is not.
[G] Cole and I, one of the first songs we wrote together, [D#] we were staying at [Gm] the Nova Castrian I think it was in Newcastle.
Waiting to go and do This Is Your Life with [D#] Lee.
And I had a VB in the fridge and I said, Cole I'm going to have this [B] VB and we're going to write a song about trains.
Cole goes, I'll write it.
So [G#] I snipped the VB [G] with him.
It didn't go too well.
And we wrote Trains in an afternoon before we [D#] went along to Linz This Is Your Life.
And we started to write more and more and the last time we were at the farm.
Just one more [Gm] thing.
Mike Munro was a host of This Is Your Life and he was learning his lines while we were riding trains.
That's right.
He was too.
[G] So we've got a lot of history with me and this fella.
[F#m] And we've also written on the road.
We wrote this song [D#] in a little New South Wales town called [Gm] Deniliquin, eh?
Yeah, I think it was.
I think.
Denny.
We were in a motel room in Denny and we were about to go to the show and I was [E] writing for a record.
And I think it's in E.
You write with E?
Yeah, I'm in E and_
We just got to double check [Gm] these things, folks.
We are professionals at the end of the day.
Get your feet off the lounge.
[F#m] No, in that one, eh?
_ [A] _ _ [E] [B] Okay.
[Am] I did the Christmas carols with Carl [B] and [Am] I [D#m] was laughing so [Em] hard I forgot the [D#] words [C#] to the carol.
Just looking at him being [D#] completely ill.
I just [A] forgot the words.
_ [E] [B] That's what I [A] do best.
Here we go.
Alright.
_ [E] [B] I rode the boundary [A] of our place [E] for the [Bm] very [E] last time.
[B] _ [A] _ _ _ [B] And [E] I was leaving [E] for Sydney [A] on the merry-go-round.
[E] I made up my [B] mind.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ [C#m]
Dad [E] died in June, I'd [A] never seen him.
[B] My [F#m] mother's so [E] frail.
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
Three months later we had to put the family [B] farm [C#] up for [E] sale.
It [A] was a five gallon [E] mailbox on [C#] the post [E] box road.
[A] I'd turn up [E] the valley, _ [B] wind my way home.
I could [C#m] see mum and [E] dad, arm [A] in arm.
_ [E] In my memories of [F#m] the family [A] farm.
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[E] No horses, [B] no valleys, [A] no fences, [B] no hinterland [E] streets.
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
[E] Just a swag full of dreams, [A] a guitar.
[E]
That swag full of dreams.
[E] _ _ [A] _ [B] In [C#m] a dark little [E] room, that [A] fragile, [B] my little [E] mum.
_ [B] _ [A] _ _ _
[E] And [F#m] a heart of me, [E] drifted out [A] like an oar.
In every [E] single one.
_ [A] That five gallon [E] mailbox on the [B] post [A] by the [E] road.
[A] Where I'd turn up the [E] valley, [B] wind my way home.
I could [C#m] see mum and [E] dad, arm [A] in arm.
_ [E] In my [Gm] memories of [F#m] the family [D] farm.
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [Dm] _ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ [F#m] _ [D#] _
[E] We lay mum to rest [A] next [E] to dad, the [F#m] year the farm [E] sold.
_ [A] _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] Mum's turned to tears as I followed the call of the road.
_ [Em] _ [A] _ _ _ [B]
Well I [C#m] was just passing [E] through when [A] I saw [B] that real [E] estate sign.
_ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [F#m] That very [E] day I put my [A] name [Em] to what had [E] always been mine.
[A] It was a five gallon [E]
mailbox on [B] the post by [E] the [A] road.
Where I'd turn up [E] the valley, _ [B] [C#] wind my [B] way home.
I could [C#m] see mum [E] and dad, arm [A] in arm.
[E] In [Gm] my memories of [F#m] the family [E] farm.
_ I could [C#m] see mum [E] and dad, arm [A] in arm.
[E] In [Gm] my memories of [F#m] the family [E] farm.
[B] _ [A] _ _ [E] _ [B] _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ This has been [G] Colin Buchanan, great songwriter and singer, folks.
[N] Thank you, everyone.
You're welcome, mate.
You're welcome anytime for another songwriter, by the way.
[G] _ _ There he is.
Any more shows through the week?
[D#] Yeah, I've got one in here and then one down there.
[N] I'll see you all then.