PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
091 - Home Among The Gum Trees
Verse 1
I’ve been a-round the world a doz-en times or may-be more,
I’ve seen the sights, and had de-lights on ev-’ry for-eign shore.
But when my friends all ask of me the place that I a-dore,
I tell them right a-way -
Chorus
^ Give me a home a-mong the gum trees,
with lots of plum trees;
a sheep or two and a kan-ga-roo.
A clothes-line out the back,
ve-ran-dah out the front
and an old rock-ing chair.
Verse 2
I’ll be stand-ing in the kitch-en cook-ing up a roast,
with Veg-e-mite on toast,
just me and you and a cock-a-too;
and after tea we’ll set-tle down beside the hitch-ing post,
and watch the wombats play -
Chorus
^ Give me a home a-mong the gum trees,
with lots of plum trees;
a sheep or two and a kan-ga-roo.
A clothes-line out the back,
ve-ran-dah out the front
and an old rock-ing chair.
Bridge
There’s a Safe-way on the cor-ner,
and a Wool-worths down the street.
And a New World’s just been o-pened
where they reg-u-late the heat.
But I’d trade them all to-mor-row
for a sim-ple bush ret-reat
where the kook-a-bur-ras sing -
Chorus (ALT: SUBSTITUTE a whistle/kazoo instrumental here)
^ Give me a home a-mong the gum trees,
with lots of plum trees;
a sheep or two and a kan-ga-roo.
A clothes-line out the back,
ve-ran-dah out the front
and an old rock-ing chair.
Verse 3
Some peo-ple like their houses built with fen-ces all a-round;
Oth-ers live in man-sions, or in bun-kers under-ground.
But I won’t be con-tent until the day that I have found
the place I long to be -
Chorus
^ Give me a home a-mong the gum trees,
with lots of plum trees;
a sheep or two and a kan-ga-roo.
A clothes-line out the back,
ve-ran-dah out the front
and an old rock-ing chair.
Tag
AND AN OLD– ROCK-ING CHAIR!
Song written by Gary Forrester popularised by John Williamson in 2006