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Down Under Chords

[Intro]
Am G (Stop) ; Am F G   x2
 
[Verse]
Am         G               Am     F G
Traveling in a fried-out combie
Am         G               Am     F G
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
Am         G    Am        F G
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
Am         G               Am     F G
She took me in and gave me breakfast        And she said,
 
[Chorus]
C             G          Am    F G
"Do you come from a land down under?
C        G          Am    F G
Where women glow and men plunder?
C             G          Am    F G
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
C          G           Am    F G
You better run, you better take cover."  (Oh Yeah)
 
Am G (Stop) ; Am F G   x2
 
[Verse]
Am         G            Am     F G
Buying bread from a man in Brussels
Am         G            Am     F G
He was six foot four and full of muscles
Am         G        Am          F G
I said, "Do you speak my language Brother?"
Am            G            Am      F G
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich  And he said, 
 
[Chorus]
C             G          Am    F G
"I come from a land down under
C             G      Am    F G
Where beer does flow and men chunder (and women too)
C      G     Am    F G
Can't you hear the thunder?
C             G          Am    F G
You better run, you better take cover."
 
Am G (Stop) ; Am F G   x2
 
[Verse]
Am         G            Am     F G
Lying in a den in Bombay
Am         G            Am     F G
With a slack jaw, and not a lot to say
Am         G                Am     F G
I said to the man, "Are you trying to tempt me
Am         G            Am     F G
Because I come from the land of plenty?" And he said,
 
[Chorus]
C             G            Am    F G
"Oh! Do you come from a land down under? (oh yeah yeah)
C        G          Am    F G
Where women glow and men plunder?
C             G              Am    F G
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
C             G          Am    F G
You better run, you better take cover."  (Cause we are)
 
[Repeat Chorus:]
C      G          Am    F G
Living in a land down under?
C        G          Am    F G
Where women glow and men plunder?
C             G          Am    F G
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
C          G           Am    F G
You better run, you better take cover."  
 
[Outro]
Am G (Stop) ; Am F G   x4

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