Gladstone pier accords par
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Intro 1

Verse 1
G G 
 
Peter was a sailor
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Swarthy lean and proud
C C 
 
He could take a schooner
G G 
 
through a big sea swell
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
Aloof in the mainland crowd
G G 
 
She loved his quiet laughter

Verse 2

Like a boy he'd shrug and grin

Beach stretched wide at Port Mackay

With dreams upon the wind

Verse 3
C C 
 
D D 
 
He wore her name in a rose tattoo
G G 
 
C C 
 
Em Em 
 
Am Am 
 
Long weekends of gins   and lime
G G 
 
C C 
 
She lived in Cairns made
D D 
 
G G 
 
plans to move
Em Em 
 
Am Am 
 
Checkout girl part- time
G G 
 
C C 
 
And rumour said there's
G G 
 
a boom ahead
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
You can make your future here
Em Em 
 
By the Gladstone pier

Verse 4
C C 
 
G G 
 
A two roomed five row shelter
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Empty hopes, the damp, the flies
C C 
 
G G 
 
Prices hyped her face grew tight
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
And conversation died

Verse 5
C C 
 
And the foreman at the smelter
D D 
 
said you're much too old
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
Am Am 
 
Try the cane fields further north
G G 
 
C C 
 
And the clerk at the market said we
D D 
 
G G 
 
don't buy trouble
Em Em 
 
Am Am 
 
There's a strike down at the port
G G 
 
Then a

Verse 6
C C 
 
G G 
 
six- day shift in a filthy pit
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
The drag lines gouging coal
C C 
 
The black dust gnaws
G G 
 
at your lungs and pores
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And anger rots your soul
C C 
 
And the queue round the block
G G 
 
waits for you to drop
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
Can you take it for another year
Em Em 
 
By the Gladstone Pier

Interlude 1
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
Em Em 
 
A A

Verse 7

Every Sunday he'd walk alone

Casting pebbles at the passing waves

Plunge in brine cleanse his pride

A stronger man remains

Verse 8
C C 
 
D D 
 
The crunch of shale and distant sails
G G 
 
Ached within his bones
Am Am 
 
Seeing ships upon the tide
Bound for ports unknown
D D 
 

Interlude 2

Verse 9
G G 
 
Soon he drank for comfort
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
She grew bitter in the weeks between
C C 
 
G G 
 
The nights of beer and hollow cheer
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
When love became routine
G G 
 
They fought, she left him crying

Verse 10

Angry words in a last cafe

In desperation on a lonely night

She took the bus to Cairns next day

Verse 11
C C 
 
D D 
 
And Gladstone couples break that way
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
Mutual blame and no regrets
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
And boomtown blues
D D 
 
just fade to grey
G G 
 
Em Em 
 
And all that's left are debts
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
He

Verse 12
C C 
 
cried:
G G 
 
"I've got to leave this dirty old town
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And the rattle of broken men
C C 
 
G G 
 
Break these chains and wash the pain
Am Am 
 
G G 
 
And put to sea again
C C 
 
Drained all my passion my
G G 
 
anger and my fears
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
And sank them in a flagon
Em Em 
 
Under Gladstone pier"
C C 
 
Am Am 
 
D D 
 

Verse 13
G G 
 
She saw him through the
Greyhound window
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
As the dawn glowed on the chrome
C C 
 
G G 
 
Standing by the pier under sullen skies
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
Sea winds calling home

Verse 14
G G 
 
From Surfers up to Townsville
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
Past the high- rise colonies
C C 
 
G G 
 
Fast food, cheap hotels
Am Am 
 
D D 
 
And two more boomtown refugees
Em Em 
 

Outro 1
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Em Em 
 
D D 
 
Em Em 
 
A A 
 
Em Em 
 
D D 
 
A A 
 
Em Em

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