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McCORLEY

POMEROY

McCorley AA – Pomeroy AABB – McCorley AA – Pomeroy AABB

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Peter Cape

C G C G
What are you singing, black matai, black matai?
C Am Dm G G7
The snow's on the tops and the fire's burning down.
C Dm F Am
What are you singing, east wind in the matai?
G Dm G7 C
Your love's left the station, she's gone to the town.

C G C G
What are you chattering, tall mountain birches?
C Am Dm G G7
The wind's in the west, and the rain's pelting down.
C Dm F Am
The flash floods are coming, I'm bound to keep moving,
G Dm G7 C
But she's gone from the station, she's gone to the town.

Oh, the smell of these deerskins, the weight of my rifle,

This eighty-pound pack that keeps dragging me down:
I'll get out of the mountains, head back to the sheep-yards,
But she's gone from the station, she's gone to the town.

What are you whispering, wind in the snowgrass,

Combing the tussocks, and smoothing them down?
My love's hair was golden as snowgrass in summer,
But she's gone from the station, she's gone to the town.

INSTRUMENTAL

REPEAT 1ST VERSE

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49. GALOPEDE

35. PAT HORGAN’S #1

36. PAT HORGAN’S #2

GALOPEDE AABB AABB – #1 AABB AABB – #2 AABB AABB

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D A D

D A7 D
When I first came and took up my claim,
D7 G D
Well, Bill Muggins was my name,
D7 G
For though I'm a young man and able,
Em D A7
Here I'm stuck, a-rocking the cradle,
D E A
And that is a Bill Muggins game,

CHORUS:
A7 D G D
But I'm a-wake up! - I will break up!
G
I'm nevermore going to roam.
A7 D G
I've panned in my dugout with never a nugget,
A7 D Bm Em A
I'm packing my things to go home.

D A7 D
I've hunted Otago for gold
D7 G D
In the wind and the rain and the cold,
D7 G
I’ve holed up all winter under the snow
Em D A7
All along the winding Molyneaux,
D E A
And that is where you need to have holed

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

D A7 D
In those shanties where you spin
D7 G D
Away all of your hard-earned tin,
D7 G
Nancy's smiles are so beguiling,
Em D A7
That's why Nancy's always smiling.
D E A
Landlord says he's not taking you in.

CHORUS

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G C
Blue smoke goes drifting by into the deep blue sky
D7 G D7
And when I think of home I sadly sigh
G C
Oh I can see you there with loving tears in your eyes
D7 G
As we fondly said our last goodbyes.
C G
And as I sailed away with a longing to stay
A A7 D D7
I promised I'd be true and to love only you
G C
Blue smoke goes drifting by into the deep blue sky
D D7 G
My memories of home will never die.

INSTRUMENTAL

REPEAT VERSE

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Bonaparte medley
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps

Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine

Alps AABB AABB – Rhine AABB AABB

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Morpeth Rant – Jacky Tar
MORPETH RANT

JACKY TAR

hornpipes – play swung

Morpeth AABB AABB – Jacky AABB AABB

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Albert Farmer’s Bonfire Tune/The Olive Branch
ALBERT FARMER’S

OLIVE BRANCH

ALBERT AABB AABB – OLIVE AABB AABB

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A KERRY POLKA

THE KERRY COW

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