Menindee

G D Em Em 2x G D Em Last drinks boys at Menindee G D Em In the year of eighteen sixty C G After eleven drunken weeks Am It's time to take your leave G D Em Em Be first to cross the country to the Gulf G D Em So drink your drinks and drink 'em slow G D Em 'cause soon you'll all be gone C G Am As part of a team of a great exploring dream G D Em Em Let's hope your leaders will know where to go G D Em Oh Mr Burke do I really have to go? G D Em You see I've got this awful feeling in my bones C G Am I'm afraid that I won't see my home again G D Em Em And I dreamt the dingoes were tearing off my clothes G D Em Oh yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai G D Em Oh worry worry worry worry me C G Am I'd much rather stay in the shade at Menindee G D Em Em Where the old Darling River flows G D Em I'll give this much to Burke, he was a man of nerve G D Em But he couldn't pick a bushman from a cove C G Am To give spell binder Wright a job just on sight G D Em Was asking for trouble from the word go G D Em So it's away, away we go G D Em Away up north out in the great unknown C G Am Well whose idea was it to walk across the country? G D Em Em I say leave the bloody country to the crows G D Em Oh yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai G D Em Oh worry worry worry worry me C G Am I'd much rather stay in the shade at Menindee G D Em Where the old Darling River flows G D Em Oh in the shade of the pub at Menindee G D Em Em Where the beer is cold, cold, cold G D Em After four months of toil and trouble G D Em From the Gulf to the Cooper we return C G Am Only to find they'd left nine hours before G D Em And not a soul to help us in our bind G D Em Oh Mr Burke where did all the blackfella's go? G D Em Mr Burke how we gonna make it on our own? C G Am I'd give everything on this day to be four hundred miles away G D Em With a cold beer sloshing in my mouth G D Em Oh yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai G D Em Oh worry worry worry worry me C G Am I'd much rather stay in the shade at Menindee G D Em Where the old Darling River flows G D Em Oh in the shade of the pub at Menindee G D Em Where the beer is cold, cold, cold G D Em Oh in the shade of the pub at Menindee G D Em Where the old Darling River flows