G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

[Spoken]

G                                     C
'Cause up in Newcastle they have very strange mating habits
D
All the young women of Newcastle walk down the main street,
G                                  C
Which is called Hunter Street (for reasons which will become obvious later on in the song)
D
And all the young men of Newcastle drive down Hunter Street
D
In their hot FJ Holdens with chrome-plated grease nipples

and double reverse overhead twin cam door handles
        G
Sitting eight abreast in the front seat
               C
And they would lean out the window
             D
And say real cool things to the sheilas on the footpath
                 G
Like uhhh.... 'G'day'
                                                         C
And every now and then of course one of the young ladies thinks to herself
D
'Ooooer' she thinks, 'ooooer'

[Chorus]

          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

[Spoken]

G                                           C
Anyway there was this mob of blokes driving down Hunter Street
                           D
In the front seat of their hot FJ with chrome-plated grease nipples and twin overhead foxtails

And the cooolest of them all - who got to sit near the window

Was young Normie
                  G
They pulled up outside the Parthenon milkbar
                                            C
And standing outside the Parthenon was this beautiful looking sheila
D
'Oooohh'....'Oooooohh'.... said young Normie who'd come top in his class in English
D                         D
'Ooooohh'... he said
D
So he leaned out the window and he said real, real suave like, he said...
             G
'Uh, G'day'
     C              D
This nine foot tall Hells Angel came out of the Parthenon milkbar
D
He looked at Norm and said 'Oh what are ya!'
                    G
Norm said 'What are you?'
                 C                                    D
The bloke on the footpath said 'Do you wanna go do ya mate, eh'
D                                         G
Norm said 'yeah, do you wanna go, mate?'
G
The bloke on the footpath said, 'Yeah, I'll have a go'
C
Norm said, 'Do you know who ya pickin''
    D
The bloke on the footpath said, 'No...who am I pickin''
                     G
Norm said, 'You find out!'
D                                 G
  And all of a sudden there was a break in the traffic
       C                                                   D
And as any young Newcastle lad knows, when you are getting monstered by a
D
nine foot tall Hells Angel, and there's a break in the traffic....

[Chorus]

          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by

          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by
          G          C         G    Em
Don't you ever let a chance go by O Lord
          C          D         G
Don't you ever let a chance go by