Tonart: D major
Verse 1
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Em
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D
That I happene
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Em
d to a town once
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D
Is of no consequence to my story
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Em
But i burned all of my diaries
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The day a town happened to
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me
Verse 2
A
But payphones there were
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I was busy writing headlines
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Like 'postbox eats the hand
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G
of lady'
Who fixes stamps to cutout competitions
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She kisses each letter she mails
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This is how i found Manilla,
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A
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Ma nilla New South Wales
Verse 3
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Cold beer for welcome stranger
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Choose to refuse and so politely
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Em
Is to risk the danger
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A
That they'll raise the kind of hell known only
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Em
by the New South Welsh
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To be heard along the Namoi banks
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And out across the distant ranges
Verse 4
D
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Em
You've had so many lov ers
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D
Your brothers would be so proud of thee
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Em
But one way of another they've drif
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D
ted to be beside a sea
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While the information clock has tied a knot
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With both it's hands and
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holds us by our tails
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We're all bound by time to Ma nilla,
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D
Manilla New South Wales
Verse 5
D
Can you pick a grave for me in the ruins
of cordial factories
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D
Where flavoured flowers grow
pirouetting in cul- de- sacs
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Miss the sound of clickety clacks on tracks
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And out through windows
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The shop keepers gape out over
Verse 6
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the landscape
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G
A
They're praying for sales
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Religion makes more sense in Manilla,
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Manilla New South Wales
Verse 7
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Here's to the folk behind fences
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D
Furtively readjusting denches
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A chorus of corellas
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D
Form clouds over saturday benches
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Where old men sit and lick
tobacco papers
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A
They look like a harmonica band
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G
As the sun tiptoes down Manilla St
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A
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And slowly comes to land
Verse 8
Em
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I may make me a home in Ma nilla,
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D
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Em
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Manilla New South Wales
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