Who will ride with stuart? Chords

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[Intro 1]
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[G][C][Em][D]
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[Verse 1]
John
[G]McDowell
Stewart was [C]a
Scotsman
[G]When his [C]sweetheart kissed
another and made
[G]He a shi[C]p out to
Australia, to see what he might [Em]find
Never [D]let another woman stray [C]into his mind
A [G]surveyor by trade,
he [C]worked away from [G]town
Loy[C]al to his patron,
uncomfortable in a [G]crowd
Had the [C]instinct of a bushman,
diffident and
[Em]shy
If it was[D]n't for the drink,
he'd have [C]let
saintly [G]lie.
He found redemption in the desert,
[C]away from the [G]grove.
He was [C]fearless and determined
To be his own [G]boss
He'd ride [C]out in unknown country
Without a [Em]second breath
Take [D]an old who went with him
[C]On a dance with death
He [G]said he's aimed to cross
The contin[C]ent from the [G]south
[C]Fulfill him in fortune only
to prove [G]himself
Took [C]seven expeditions
before he made it [Em]through
In the [D]scrub of
Van
Diemen's
Gulf
He [C]glimpsed that shimmering [G]blue
The party gathered on the beach and
[C]raised the union [G]jack
With a [C]toss now done,
Stuart
Allbrook col[G]lapsed
He [C]became a brooding figure,
racked with scurvy
and [Em]half -blind.
He was lauded [D]by the public,
but lost all [C]purpose in his life.
Too [G]ill for the desert, he sought
[C]refuge in [G]the bottle.
He was [C]soon poverty
-stricken and all but forgotten.
[G]One day[C] he boarded
a ship that sailed [Em]away,
Went [D]back home to
Scotland, and [C]there he found
[G]is grey.
Australia's greatest explorer was [C]never one
to [G]boast.
To be [C]first across
the country becomes a hollow
[G]toast.
If [C]you intrude blindly into
native people's
[Em]homes
And [D]taking lethal force can
[C]eat away your soul
[G]So who'll ride with
Stuart, [C]who'll suffer where he [G]goes?
[C]Who'll starve in the
thirst and not falter from the [G]go?
They say [C]he opened up the
country for progress to [Em]come
And oth[D]ers say he was
[C]cursed for what [G]he'd done
John
McDowell
Stewart was [C]a
Scotsman
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