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D|-----2--2---2-| Continue strumming pattern and do the same style with the different chords.
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E|-3----3-------|


[Intro]
C       G    C


[Verse]
C                                         G
Oh, they'd mustered all the cattle on the Innamincka run,
    F                                              G
And also on Cordilla Downs the same thing had been done,
      C                                                     F
They shifted all the cows an' calves, the bullocks and the steers,
                      C              G          C
The biggest bank tell muster job for many, many years.

       G                           C
Oh the Diamantina channels and the lignum now are bare
F                                                          G
Some wide eyed long horned pikers were all they'd left out there,
     C                                                  F
Next day the helicopters came and cleared them from the run,
                    C                    G              C
The mickeys didn't stand a chance, they shot 'em one by one.

                                                             G
Disease and blight had struck the herd, the beasts all had to go,
             F                                      G
To save the export market and increase the money flow,
       C                                               F
Though it wasn't a very pretty scene to see the pikers fall,
                  C              G               C
And pilot of the chopper, didn't like the job at all.

G                                       C
And the stockmen riding shotgun did his best to keep it clean,
   F                                                     G
He tried his best for one shot kills to ease the grizzly scene,
    C                                              F
But soon the job was over and the land allowed to spell,
                     C            G              C
Once again the stony desert had a tragic tale to tell.

[Instrumental]
C       G   F    
G      C   F     
G C D        

D                                A
They wait now for the seasons to rejuvenate the land,
G                                              A
Restock again with breeders and keep them well in hand,
       D                                                        G
Oh the flood plains then will prosper and the blight will be no more,
                       D                         A    D
Once more the stockmen riding, like they used to do before.

A                            D
And the cattle camps be busy with a new and stronger breed,
        G                                                  A
As they muster through the lignum where the cattle love to feed,
            D                                        G
Through the sand hills of Cordilla or the Innamincka Plains,
                        D                      A               D
Once more we'll see the stockmen's hands rest slightly on the reins.

                                      A
At the Innamincka muster, there were choppers in the sky,
G                                             A
Cattle country gun ships with the rifleman on high,
       D                                            G
Oh the pikers didn't stand a chance, cattle war was won,
                  D                         A      D
Beside the stony desert where they shot 'em one by one.

A                                  D
Old timers had another way, they'd very seldom fail,
   G                                               A
To block the way with mickey, and throw him by the tail,
    D                                             G
But now the ringer's airborne, helicopters on the go,
                  D                  A              D
In the Diamantina country where the channels waters flow.
A                          G           G A D
Where the channels waters flow.