Biography:
Redgum was an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals and Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and together developed an intensely passionate and outspoken outlook. They are known for their protest song exploring the impact of war in 1983's "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)", which peaked at #1 on the National singles charts.
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Other songs:
- I Was Only Nineteen
- Asio
- Beaumont Rag
- Carrington Cabaret
- Critique In G
- Diamantina Drover
- Gladstone Pier
- It Doesnt Matter To Me
- Just Another Mometnt On Your Own
- Killing Floor
- Long Run
- Nuclear Cop
- One More Thursday Night In Adelaide
- Only Nineteen
- Poor Ned
- Servin Usa
- So Goodbye
- Stewie
- The Last Frontier
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[Intro]
G Em C D
G Em C D
G
[Verse]
G D
I loved your home at Springfield
C Em
And your chauffer-drive Jag
C G
But the afternoons at the yacht squadron
C D
Really are a drag
C D
Your country home at Aldgate
G Em
Your horses and your friends
C D G Em
The alcoholic sunsets, the pleasure never ends
C D G Em
I've just begun to notice the cold steel in your eyes
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
I've spoken to your father
C Em
he's a self made millionaire
C G
Do you know where his factories are?
C D
Do you know who lives there?
C D G Em
In squashy little red-brick houses far away from here.
C D G Em
They're ugly and they're all the same, the neighbours live so near
C D G Em
The way my famliy's living there you'd not believe your eyes
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
Your brother's learning how to drive
C Em
the jag in your back yard
C G
Your father sits and tells me
C D
about how he's worked so hard
C D G Em
Your mother's introducing me with patronising grace
C D G Em
To all her bridge friends in the salon, little cakes and lace
C D G Em
My mothers working nightshift now, she's working till she dies
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Interlude]
G Em C D x6
Em
[Verse]
G D
Your fathers firm owns factories
C Em
not far from where we stay
C G
The chimneys spewing thick black smoke
C D
Across the night and day
C D G Em
The people live and work down there underneath that cloud of smog
C D G Em
The kids' backyards are small and bare, too small to keep a dog
C D G Em
Dont tell me that they like it there, thats certainly a lie
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
Please don't cry, you'll find a lover
C Em
very soon I'm sure
C G
A gentleman who'll bring you roses
C D
and lay them at your door
C D G Em
It's not because you're rich, because you're not prepared to think
C D G Em
The higher daddy rises, the more his workers sink
C D G Em
You won't wake up in time my lady, you won't realise
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
G Em C D
G Em C D
G
[Verse]
G D
I loved your home at Springfield
C Em
And your chauffer-drive Jag
C G
But the afternoons at the yacht squadron
C D
Really are a drag
C D
Your country home at Aldgate
G Em
Your horses and your friends
C D G Em
The alcoholic sunsets, the pleasure never ends
C D G Em
I've just begun to notice the cold steel in your eyes
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
I've spoken to your father
C Em
he's a self made millionaire
C G
Do you know where his factories are?
C D
Do you know who lives there?
C D G Em
In squashy little red-brick houses far away from here.
C D G Em
They're ugly and they're all the same, the neighbours live so near
C D G Em
The way my famliy's living there you'd not believe your eyes
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
Your brother's learning how to drive
C Em
the jag in your back yard
C G
Your father sits and tells me
C D
about how he's worked so hard
C D G Em
Your mother's introducing me with patronising grace
C D G Em
To all her bridge friends in the salon, little cakes and lace
C D G Em
My mothers working nightshift now, she's working till she dies
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Interlude]
G Em C D x6
Em
[Verse]
G D
Your fathers firm owns factories
C Em
not far from where we stay
C G
The chimneys spewing thick black smoke
C D
Across the night and day
C D G Em
The people live and work down there underneath that cloud of smog
C D G Em
The kids' backyards are small and bare, too small to keep a dog
C D G Em
Dont tell me that they like it there, thats certainly a lie
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
[Verse]
G D
Please don't cry, you'll find a lover
C Em
very soon I'm sure
C G
A gentleman who'll bring you roses
C D
and lay them at your door
C D G Em
It's not because you're rich, because you're not prepared to think
C D G Em
The higher daddy rises, the more his workers sink
C D G Em
You won't wake up in time my lady, you won't realise
[Chorus]
C D Em
So I say to you goodbye
C D Em
As she goes on asking why
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