Tonart: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
John
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McDowell
Scotsman
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When his sweetheart kissed
another and made
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He a ship out to
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Australia, to see what he might find
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Never let another woman stray into his mind
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he worked away from town
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uncomfortable in a crowd
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Had the instinct of a bushman,
diffident and
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shy
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If it wasn't for the drink,
He found redemption in the desert,
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away from the grove.
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He was fearless and determined
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He'd ride out in unknown country
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Without a second breath
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Take an old who went with him
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He said he's aimed to cross
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The continent from the south
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Fulfill him in fortune only
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before he made it through
Van
Diemen's
Gulf
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He glimpsed that shimmering blue
The party gathered on the beach and
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raised the union jack
Stuart
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He became a brooding figure,
racked with scurvy
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He was lauded by the public,
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but lost all purpose in his life.
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Too ill for the desert, he sought
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refuge in the bottle.
-stricken and all but forgotten.
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One day he boarded
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a ship that sailed away,
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Scotland, and there he found
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is grey.
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Australia's greatest explorer was never one
the country becomes a hollow
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toast.
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If you intrude blindly into
native people's
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homes
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And taking lethal force can
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Stuart, who'll suffer where he goes?
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thirst and not falter from the go?
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They say he opened up the
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country for progress to come
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cursed for what he'd done
John
McDowell
Scotsman
you
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