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Chords
SOL 320003 RE xx0232 MIm 0220xx DO x32010
SIm x24432 LAm xx2210 SOL/FA# 200003
Notation
h - Hammer on
p - Pull off
Riffs
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Riff 1 Riff 2
e --------- e ---------
b --------- b ---------
g -----0-2- g -2h4p2---
d -0-2----- d ---------
Intro
SOL RE MIm RE DO SIm LAm RE
Riff 1 / / / Riff 2 / / / / / / / / / / / /
Verse
MIm DO SOL SOL/FA# SOL RE
I Left my heart to the sappers round, Khe Sahn.
MIm DO RE
And my soul was sold with my cigarettes, to the black market man.
MIm DO SOL DO
I've had the Vietnam cold turkey, from the ocean to the silver city
LAm FA RE
And it's only other vets could understand.
MIm DO SOL SOL/FA# SOL RE
'Bout the long forgotten dockside guarantees,
MIm DO RE
How there were no V-day heroes in nineteen seventy-three;
MIm DO SOL DO
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour, saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss her.
LAm RE SOL DO SOL RE
She was lined, and I was home to the lucky land
Lyrics
1. She was like so many more from that time on
Their lives were all so empty, till they'd found there chosen one,
And their legs were often open,
But their minds were always closed,
And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains
2. And the legal pads were yellow,
Hours long paypackets lean,
And the telex writers clattered
Where the gunships once had been;
But the carparks made me jumpy,
And I never stopped the dreams,
Or the growing need for speed and novacaine
3. So I worked across the country from end to end
Tried to find a place to settle down,
Where my mixed up life could mend,
Held a job on an oil-rig,
Flying choppers when I could,
But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend.
4. And I've travelled round the world from year to year,
And each one found me aimless
One more year the worse for wear,
And I've been back to South East Asia,
And the answer sure ain't there,
But I'm drifting north,
To check things out again.
5. Well the last plane of Sydney's almost gone.
And only seven flying hours,
And I'll be landing in Hong Kong.
And there ain't nothin' like the kisses
From a jaded Chinese princess,
I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long
6. Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone.
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone.
And it's really got me worried,
I'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurry.
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone.
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