Long Run Chords

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[Verse 1]
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You look out your window at the cold grey dawn It's seven o'clock on a Monday morning
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Pour a cup of coffee,   better make it a strong one
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Weather man on the radio says it's going to rain and it's going to blow
      Em                  D                   A                   Em
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
 
[Instrumental]
Em  Em   G D A  x2
 
[Verse 2]
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Australia marched out of Vietnam - Out in the streets against Uncle Sam
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We won the fight,     it was a long one
   Em             D         A                   Em
Uranium demo the other day, One of my mates got dragged away
         Em                D                   A                   Em
As they slammed the door I heard her say It'll be all right in the long run
 
[Verse 3]
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Italian bloke who works with me We swap laughs and company
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And he slapped me on the back,    He said "You're wrong, son
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This isn't the land I was told it would be, It's not so equal and it's not so free
          Em                  D                   A                    Em
But it'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
 
[Instrumental]
Em  Em   G D A  x2
 
(a capella)
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
It'll be all right, it'll be all right, it'll be all right in the long run
 
[Verse 4]
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From the shadow of history a convict screams, the shearers curse, the people dream
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We've taken some right turns - they've been the wrong ones
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Troop ships leave and the headlines blaze Australia remembers happier days
         Em                D                 A                   Em
And the faith lives on within the haze it'll be all right in the long run
 
[Verse 5]
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So you sit in your camp, stare at the fire, the doubts drop away as the hopes get higher
        Em                     D              A                  Em
And you sing to yourself it'll be all right, be all right in the long run
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And the sun gives ground to a long cold night, you screw your courage for another fight
        Em                       D              A                   Em
But you know in your heart it'll be all right,  be all right in the long run
 
[Instrumental]
Em  Em   G D A  x2
 
(a capella)
And the sun streams in with power and might and you look at your kids in a different light,
And you know in your heart as you kiss them goodnight it'll be all right in the long run
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