Intro
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[Verse 1]
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I've been around the world a couple of times or maybe more
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I've seen the sights, I've had delights on every foreign shore
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But when my friends all ask me ‘bout the place that I adore
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I tell them right away
[Chorus]
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Give me a home among the gumtrees
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With lots of plum trees
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C# sheep or two, a kangaroo
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C# clothes line out the back
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Verandah out the front
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And an old rocking chair
[Verse 2]
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I’ll be standing in the kitchen cooking up a roast
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With Vegemite on toast. Just you and me, a cup of tea
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And later on, we'll settle down beside the hitching post
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And watch the possums play
[Chorus]
B G#m C#m F#
Give me a home among the gumtrees
C#m F#
With lots of plum trees
B F#
C# sheep or two, a kangaroo
B G#m
C# clothes line out the back
C#m F#
Verandah out the front
C#m F# B
And an old rocking chair
[Bridge]
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There's a Safeway on the corner and a Woolworths down the street
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And a new one’s just been opened up where they regulate the heat
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But I'd trade them all tomorrow for a little bush retreat
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Where the kookaburras sing
[Chorus]
B G#m C#m F#
Give me a home among the gumtrees
C#m F#
With lots of plum trees
B F#
C# sheep or two, a kangaroo
B G#m
C# clothes line out the back
C#m F#
Verandah out the front
C#m F# B
And an old rocking chair
[Interlude]
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C#m F# B F#
B G#m C#m F#
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[Verse 4]
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Some people like their houses built with fences all around
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Others live in mansions and some beneath the ground
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But me I like the bush you know with lizards running ‘round
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And a pumpkin vine out the back
[Chorus]
B G#m C#m F#
Give me a home among the gumtree-ees
C#m F#
With lots of plum tree-ees
B F#
C# sheep or two, a kangaroo
B G#m
C# clothes line out the back
C#m F#
Verandah out the front
C#m F# B
And an old rocking chair
B G#m C#m F#
Give me a home among the gumtree-ees
C#m F#
With lots of plum tree-ees
B F#
C# sheep or two, a kangaroo
B G#m
C# clothes line out the back
C#m F#
Verandah out the front
C#m F# B
And an old rock-ing chair