Tonart: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The wind out here's like a cross- cut saw,
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the land is red and green
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The summer sun's hanging in a pale blue sky,
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the air is sharp and clean
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There's a frozen moment in waving grain,
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food for a hungry world
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But we can't clothe ourselves with the check,
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we can barely feed ourselves
Verse 2
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At night I lie awake and worry and the
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debts go round and round
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Furrows in my night time forehead,
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And furrows on borrowed
ground
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Verse 3
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There's and old galv shed with a laughing lean,
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it's kept the tractor dry
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I remember the day when we knocked it
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up with stringy bark and fencing wire
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The earthen floor's been beaten hard,
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where the rain hasn't cut a path
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I'm frightened to look because I'm beaten
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too and the mice run through the chaff
Verse 4
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And the overdraft won't come down
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And it's hard work keeping
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Living on borrowed ground
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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And I don't blame your brother,
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son, for moving into town
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It's no place here for a
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Living on borrowed ground.
Interlude 2
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Verse 6
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And I watch all the programs on the ABC,
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After the sun's gone down
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Lucy Broad's talking on
Interlude 3
Talking about borrowed ground.
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Verse 7
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We don't own this place anymore and I
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don't know how or why.
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There's some money- men coming from Sydney
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who tell me it's only a matter or time.
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Well, I hope they can read the seasons and they're
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not here just to muck around
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Cause they've still got to
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They've got to feed them from borrowed
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ground.
Outro 1
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Akkorde & SongtexteD G C Am Em
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