Ride this high speed train

Tomorrow never came in the Great North

It was nothing like we thought.

Action brings good times and takes lives

action brings good times

The white sky bleached our dreams for that town

we’re on a beeline for better days

Plown fields and naked trees pass by me

fields with naked trees

bid farewell and submit to the spell

feel a holistic human heart

Kate bush guides my thoughts of granduer

Kate Bush guides my thoughts

She takes her shoes off and throws them in a lake

she saved my life

as i flee on this tgv…

Beeline for Better Days

Verse/ Chrous: Am     G

F

Bridge:  F     G    C/F   A7    F    G    C/F    G

Verse 1:

You thawed a long frozen heart

Loosened a countenance turned indifference to joy

Can you imagine my dismay as I woke to find the gift I gave could have been given in vain?

Chorus

Jane Jane Jane

Verse 2

As I sit and watch the frost descend across this lonely meadow

I will never know another quite like you…

You saved from this kind of aristocracy oh how I can’t bear to be a part of heartless high society

Chorus

Jane Jane Jane

Won’t you come home…

Bridge

And I assure that this love

stands as firm as the rock in the stream with which all else flows away…

The remorse devours me, I’m sorry for my deceit

Oh I curse the secret shame let the wind carry your name…

Chorus

Chorus:  G     A   Bm   A    G      D

Outro: G    D

When you’re in love with a woken dream

though the feeling’s pure it’s the hardest to endure…

Verse 1

Some folk say it’s a hard life

No not you you seem alright

I know everyone’s got their shit still I envy your bit

She got the post modern blues, She got no sweat shoes

We laugh at the same thing,  She don’t care for bling

She don’t for nice guys, She’s on that treat me bad vibe

But I can’t treat her bad right…

Chorus 1

And it pains me so ‘cos it’s to but never fro

Hence I’m cast I’m in the single part show,

Because the girl I love says no…

Verse 2

Although we’ve money in the bank, so many reasons to thank

We trip and fall in the trap of thinking the earth is flat.

And we get stuck in bad chat, end up chewing the fat,

when there’s meat on the bone and waste is something I can never condone…

Chorus 2

And it pains me so to be near but never go

So I bury my head in the snow.

And it pains me so ‘cos it’s to but never fro

Hence I’m cast I’m in the single part show,

Because the girl I love says no…

Outro

When you’re in love with a woken dream

though the feeling’s pure it’s the hardest to endure…

C             Am                                       G                C

Facon* on the barbecue for christmas time

C                     Am                                         G         F

call it sour grapes but sow crates are not fine

Pre-chorus

F/G Am

Santa comes

C          G              F

to all the girls and boys

C          G            F

who never throw their toys

C          G            F

who love Santa Claus

C              G                   F      G

just not big chain stores…

Chorus

C          C/B                            Am               F                       G

Even though there’s no snow It’s christmas day here

C              C/B          Am                  F                     G

This is what we know It’s christmas day here

C               C/B            Am           F                         G

No gifts under no tree It’s christmas day here

C               C/B            Am                 F                    G

Stuffing without turkey It’s christmas day here

Verse 2

Eggplant on the barbecue for christmas time

call it sour grapes but sow crates are not fine

Pre-chorus

Chorus

Outro

All we got is love

all we got is love

and love is enough…

*fake bacon= facon

How long to go till we go home?

Chorus

G              Am                C                     D                      G

A smile goes a long way as the day starts to drag

Am                 C                                 G

Although we’re tempted to flag the pay make us stay…

Am                   C                                      D

You make my day with the feel good things you say

G                            Am                C                       D

You’re smiling face brings joy to this place…

Verse 1

G                                                                          C                   G

We’ll start with ‘A’, who’s gonna play? It’s movie stars today

G                                                                       C                           G

You wait in line, we’ll pass the time, now who’s that guy from ‘Shine’?

Bridge

G                       Em    C                     G

Can’t see the sun, oh we have fun

G                       Em    C                     G

Can’t see sun, oh we have fun

Verse 2

This girl I rate more than a mate, help me believe in fate…

This job  I hate, alienate me from the stuff I make

Bridge

Instrumental Interlude

G

Bridge 2

D                      C

How long to go till next smoko?

D                                        Am

No we don’t know it makes time go slow

D                         C

How long to go till next smoko?

D                         G

How long to go till we go home?

Chorus

Outro

Listen to When Sarah smiles…

A               D                      A

I want to be a public servant

A                 D                            A

Serve the interests of the public

E                              D                                           A

And they’d say “Lake could you make a spreadsheet?”

E                        D                                      A

And I’d say “sure just give me a deadline”

Chorus

D           E             A

I work better under deadlines

D             E           A

He works better under deadlines

Verse 2

I want to be a public servant

Do the quiz at morning tea time

And they’d say “Lake could photocopy this?”

And I’d ask “Do you want it double sided?”

Well all these thoughts they get me excited

Chorus

Listen to Ode to the Public Servant

A                                 E                       A

It was dark on the way to the factory

A                                 E                      A

It was dark on the way back home

A                       E                              A

She said she would not come back to me

A                     E             A

She left me all alone

And the weekends take all of my pay away

in the weekends I must get drunk

so I follow the footy to get me through

but my team they always lose

Chorus

A                               E                                 A                 F#/A                            E                             A

Na na nanana na naa na nananana na na naa naa naa na naa naa na na naa na na na

Verse 2

Today we tuned in the radio

and hoped for a singalong

We heard with glee a new melody

and lyric was sing with me

Chorus

Listen to Factory Song

C                Am                                               C         Am

Almost told my boss to get fucked

C               Am                                                C         Am

Almost sold my soul for a buck

C                                            Am                                               C                         Am

Take me far from all my old dreams have I’ve been in it too long

C                                                         Am                                                   C                               Am

Give me some booze I’ve got working man’s blues and frustration to lose

C                  Am                     Em

So honey don’t you wait up

C                      Am

We just filled our jugs

Chorus

G                                   F                                G                         F

We know we have work in the morn, still we stay drinking until dawn

Instrumental Part

C             Am

Verse 2

This hard work give me such a thirst

It’s not far to the next public bar

And we hate our jobs

You won’t hear us sob

Though we hate our jobs

Bridge

G                  Am                C         Am

You won’t hear us sob

G              Am                   C            Am

All this beer we got

C              Am         Em

All this beer we got

C                    Am

Gonna drink the lot!

Chorus

Listen to Drinking Song

Verse 1

G

Killing pigs and gonna California

C/G

Look just what they made us do

G

Killing pigs and gonna California

D                                                  C                                  G

The took the farm so we got nothing else to lose

Chorus

G                                                       D

Them there’s our folk gonna do right by them

C/G              D                         G

and the family’s honour we’ll defend

Verse 2

Rose of Sharon’s bigger than a whale

and Connie’s got scared and runaway

Rose of Sharon’s bigger than a whale

and her face is lookin’ awful rather pale

Chorus

Verse 3

Tom’s gone and killed another man

and family’s gonna keep him out o’ the can

Tom’s gone and killed another man

says give him the chance and he’d do it all again

Bridge

G                                                                        D

Grandma’s dead and Grandpa’s dead, dug a hole to rest their heads

G                                                             D                                        C/G           G

Kids are hungry gotta be fed, it just ain’t like how the flier said

Chorus

Listen to A Robot in the Seat

Verse/Chorus

30 hours a week is all the work that we need.

More time for the family

hours in the sun

More time get moving

a job for everyone…

For a 30hr Working Week