Menindee Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]Oh [Em]yakai[G] yakai yakai yakai yakai
Oh worry worry worry worry
[Em]me[G]
[D][Em][G][Em]

[Verse 2]
Last [G]drinks [D]boys [Em]at Menindee
[G]In the year of eighteen [Em]sixty
After eleven [C]drunk[G]en weeks
It's time [A]to take your leave
[G]Be first to cross the country
to [Em]the Gulf

[Verse 3]
So drink your drinks and drink [Em]'em slow
'Cause soon you'll all be gone
As part [C]of [G]a team of [Bm]a great [A]ex
ploring dream
[G]Let's hope your leaders will
[A]know where [Em]to go

[Verse 4]
Oh Mr Burke, do I really [Em]have
to go?
You see I've got this awful
feeling in my bones
I'm [C]afraid [B]that I [Bm]won't see
[A]my home again
And [G]I dreamt the dingoes
were tear[A]ing off [Em]my clothes

[Verse 5]
[Em]Oh yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai
Oh worry worry worry worry me
I'd much [C]rather [Bm]stay in
[Am]the shade at Menindee
Where [G]the old Darling [A]River [Em]flows

[Verse 6]
I'll give this much [Em]to Burke,
he was a man of nerve
But he couldn't pick
a bushman from a cove
To give spell [C]binder [B]Wright
[A]a job just on sight
[G]Was asking for trouble [A]from the [Em]word go

[Verse 7]
So it's away, away we [Em]go
Away up north out in the great
unknown
Well whose [C]idea was [Bm]it
to walk [A]across the country?
I [G]say 'leave the bloody coun[A]try to [Em]the
[G]crows'[Em]
[G]Oh yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai Oh worry worry worry

[Verse 8]
worry [Em]me
I'd much [C]rather [G]stay
[A]in the shade at [Am]Menindee
Where [G]the old Darling [A]River [Em]flows

[Verse 9]
Oh in [G]the shade of the pub [F#m]at
[Em]Menindee
[G]Where the beer is cold, [F#m]cold, [Em]cold

[Verse 10]
[Em]After four months of toil and trouble
From the Gulf to the Cooper we return
[C]Only [B]to find [Bm]they'd left
[A]nine hours before
[G]And not a soul to help [A]us in [Em]our bind

[Verse 11]
Oh Mr Burke, where did [Em]all the
blackfella's go?
Mr Burke, how we gonna
make it on our own?
I'd [C]give everything on this day [B]to be
[G]four hundred [A]miles away
[G]With a cold beer sloshing [F#m]in my [Em]mouth
[G]Oh[Em]

[Verse 12]
[G]yakai yakai yakai yakai yakai
Oh worry worry worry worry [Em]me
I'd much [C]rather [G]stay
in the shade [A]at Menindee
Where [G]the old Darling [F#m]River [Em]flows
Oh [G]in the shade

[Verse 13]
of the pub [F#m]at
[Em]Menindee
[G]Where the beer is cold, [F#m]cold, [Em]cold
Oh in [G]the shade of the pub [F#m]at
[Em]Menindee
Where the old [G]Darling [F#m]River [Em]flows