Frontier... What Frontier Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em]
[Am][Em][G][Am][Em]
[G][Am][Em][G][Am][D][Em]
[G][Am][Em][G][Am]
[D][Em][G][Am][D][Em][Am]
[D][Em][G]

[Verse 1]
The catch was in the last [G]phrase
Settlers would, themselves, define if Aborigines oc[C]cupied [G]land
[Em]

[Interlude 1]
[A][Am][D][Em][Am]
[Em]
[D][Em][D][Em]

[Verse 2]
What is to be the [Em]interpretation of the word occupied,
is the question
It is not occupied according to any
law [D]regulating possession
[Em]Which is recognised by civilised
[D]people

[Interlude 2]
[Em][Am][D][Em]

[Verse 3]
I had [Em]collected all my worn-
out children's clothes
And dressed them like children in [G]them
We [Em]gave them some fireworks,
and an immense bon[G]fire
[Em]With which they were
[D]highly [Em]delighted
And finished by the blacks amusing
us with their corroborees
Which are the oddest exhibition
you can conceive

[Verse 4]
The [Em]interpreter told us
They were describing the first ship
that arrived in Holdfast Bay
And the landing of good white men
And the good biscuits they got
[A]in [Em]Adelaide

[Interlude 3]
[Em][Am][D][Em]

[Verse 5]
Sir, [Em]I have this evening perused
[A]an accoun[Em]t
Of the progress of an Aboriginal mission
[Am]And I ce[D]rtainly conceive[Em] it to be one
of the most [Am]glaring
And oppress[Em]ive outrages on the public funds

[Interlude 4]
[Em][G][Em][D]
[Em][Am][D][Em][Am]
[D][Em][D][Em]
[D][Em][G]
[Em]
[Am]The hatred, [D]wit[Em]h which

[Verse 6]
the white
man regards [Am]the black[D][Em]
That feeling results from fear
From the strong physical contrast
which intercept the sympathy
Which subsists between men
of the [G]same [Em]race[D]
[Em]From the proud sense of superiority
From the consciousness of having
done them great wrongs
And from the desire to escape
[A]this pain of self [Em]reproach
[D]By [Em]laying the blame

[Outro 1]
on the injured party
[Em][Em]