[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
Am D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
G
A poor bush girl when the summer is high
Am D G
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
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Bare legged Kate why do you run
Am D
Down to the creek in the setting sun?
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Go away where the eyes of the world can't see
Am D G D
But you can't run away from your poverty
[Verse]
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Bare legged Kate, why do you weep
Am D
When the men drove by with the travelling sheep?
G
Does the sight of the drover make you sad
Am D G D
When you think of the father you never had?
[Chorus]
G
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
Am D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
G
A poor bush girl when the summer is high
Am D G
In the bitter days of Gundagai
[Verse]
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Oh, it's well you know, there's gold in the hills
Am D
But you know that the cyanide process kills
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Strangles the miners and cuts them down
Am D G
In their mean little homes in Timber Town
[Verse]
G
And it's well you know, when the floods come down
Am D
It's the poor by the river are the first to drown
G
Where the wild Murrumbidgee goes roaring by
Am D G
Through the haunted hills of Gundagai
[Chorus]
G
Bare legged Kate with your natural grace
Am D
And your big sad eyes and your Irish face
G
A poor bush girl when the winter is nigh
Am D G
In the barren hills of Gundagai