Darwin Jailhouse Window Cifras

[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Oh, the odour of the ale and the smell of tobacco, the scent of the old sour tea
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All around joy and laughter bringing me more misery.
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I hear old Slim twanging on the jukebox singing of a life's that’s free
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I see you in the bar from the jailhouse window drinkin' with a fool like me
 
 
[Verse]
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Yesterday it was a big prospector last weekend was me
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Today I see you got yourself a buffalo man who will the next fool be?
        G                                                                             C
Well, I wonder will he smile when you've got all his money, will he finish up where I am?
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I see you in the bar from the jailhouse window drinkin' with another man
 
 
[Verse]
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Corner of the bar sits the newspaper editor guess he’s got his paper to bed
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Pretty soon now they’ll read all about it read all the things you've said
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See him frownin’ as he reads the first copy scans it line by line
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I guess it’s gotta be around 3:30 cause old Jimmy's always on time
 
 
[Chorus]
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Oh, the odour of the ale and the smell of tobacco, the scent of the old sour tea
                              G N.C.
All around sounds of laughter bringing me more misery.
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I hear old Slim twangin' on the jukebox singing of a life's that’s free
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I see you in the bar from the jailhouse window drinkin' with a fool like me
 
 
[Verse]
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See the black eye on the tall young stranger Oh He’s No friend of mine
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How was I to know that he's a policeman none of you told me in time
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See Bob Tudawali and a great white hunter an old Rum Jungle Jack
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Laughin’ and drinkin' none of ya thinkin' of the thirsty pris'ner out the back
 
 
[Verse]
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Every moment is an hour of torture how the long hours pass
                           G            D
Tasting in my imagination every frosted glass
     G                                                                 C
Tex, When I'm free, I’m gonna find and seek him and find that fiend of hell
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The man who built the window of the lockup facing the garden of the Vic Hotel
 
 
[Chorus]
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Oh, the odour of the ale and the smell of tobacco, a mingle of the old sour tea
                               G N.C.
All around is joy and laughter bringing me more misery.
  G                                                                C
I hear old Slim twangin' on the jukebox singing of a life's that’s free
                              G      E      A7              D         G
I see you in the bar from the lockup window drinkin' with a fool like me
 
 
[Tag]
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with another fool like me
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Well, I'm barred from the bar by the bars on my window and you're with a fool like me
 
 
[Outro]
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