The Last Frontier

D A/C# Bm G A D A/C# It's a corrugated highway leading north from Port Augusta lined Bm G Bm A With ratted cars that didn't rate a tow D Bm Salt plains out of Pimba and your eyes begin to stream G C A Onto Kingoonya, huddled dusty by the road D A/C# Romantic notions shattered like the tyres that didn't hack it Bm G Bm A This has got to be the countries last frontier D Bm Where a sports cars next to useless, running cattle grids and river beds G C A We drove a van from 1963 G A D G Someone mentioned walkabout, kiss your job goodbye D A Just to see the country shimmer through the windscreen G A D G Drinking beer telling stories while laughter filled the night D A G A D A Flexitime's behind you like a bad dream D A/C# Got a flat on ANZAC highway and Lawson on your shelf Bm G Bm A It's a southern comfort air-conditioned rage D Bm Where a homesteads more than just a cheap print dangling from a wall G C A And mateship's more than lines upon a page G A D G We went looking for Australia inbetween the TV lines D A 'Cause the ABC just couldn't make it real G A D G A colour documentary from a beanbag on the floor D A G A D A Never shows as much as it conceals D A/C# Stark and blistered Alice Springs and a river runs with shame Bm G Bm A And you wipe the sheets of bulldust from your eyes D Bm Another countries uniform, mirage it falls apart G C A To the open gap between the truth and lies G A D G Go and see your country mate, travel agents scream D A Politicians sell its heart just for a pastime G A D G Signs and highwire fences of a land where I belong D A It's as if I'm in the outback for the last time G A D A For the last time uh-huh G A D A For the last time uh-huh G A D A For the last time uh-huh G A D A For the last time uh-huh