Gladstone Pier by Redgum Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Gladstone Pier guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Gladstone Pier by Redgum using guitar or guitar.
This song by Redgum can also be played by that instruments.
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Gladstone Pier guitar chords has rhythm and included in Frontline (1984) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Gladstone Pier by Redgum Guitar Chords


C
He was a sailor
G

D
Swarthy lean and proud
Em

He could take
C
a schooner through a big sea swell
G

Am
Aloof in the mainland crowd
D

C
She loved his quiet laughter
G

Like a boy
D
he’d shrug and grin
Em

C
Beach stretched wide at Port Mackay
G

With dr
Am
eams upon the wind
D

C
He wore her name in
G
a rose tattoo
D
Em

Long wee
C
kends of gins and lime
G
Am

C
She lived in Cairns
G
made plans to move
D
Em

C
Checkout girl pa
G
rt-time
Am

C
And rumour said ther
G
e’s a boom ahead
D
Em

You can make y
C
our futur
G
e here
Am

By the Gladstone pier
Em

C
A two roomed five row shelter
G

Empty hopes
D
, the damp, the flies
Em

C
Prices hiked her face grew
G
tight
And con
Am
versation died
D

And the foreman

C
at the smelter said
G
you’re much too old
D
Em

Try the can
C
e fields furthers
G
north
Am

And the clerk
C
at the mar
G
ket said we don’t buy t
D
rouble
Em

There’s a stri
C
ke down at
G
the port
Am

Then a six-d

C
ay shift in
G
a filthy pit
D
Em

The dr
C
ag lines
G
gouging coal
Am

The bla
C
ck dust gnaws at
G
your lungs and pores
D
Em

And anger
C
rots you
G
r soul
Am

And the queue r
C
ound the block waits for
G
you to drop
D
Em

Can you take i
C
t for an
G
other year
Am

By the Gladstone Pier
Em

Every Sun

C
day he’d walk alone
G

Casting pebbl
D
es at the passing waves
Em

C
Plunge in brine cleanse h
G
is pride
A s
Am
tronger man rem
D
ains

C
The crunch of shale and distant sails
G

D
Ached within his bones
Em

And ship
C
s upon the tide
G

Am
Bound for ports unknown
D

C
Soon he drank for comfort
G

She grew bitter
D
in the weeks between
Em

The nig
C
hts of beer and hollow cheer
G

And lov
Am
e became routine
D

T

C
hey fought, she left him crying
G

Angry word
D
s in a last caf
Em

In de
C
speration on a lonely night
G

She took the bus to
Am
Cairns next day
D

And Gla

C
dstone couples br
G
eak that way
D
Em

Mutual blam
C
e and no regrets
G
Am

And boo
C
mtown blues just
G
fade to grey
D
Em

And all t
C
hat’s left are
G
debts she cried
Am
:
C
I’ve got to leave
G
this dirty old
D
town
Em

The ratt
C
le of broken me
G
n
Am

And bre
C
ak these chains and w
G
ash the pain
D
Em

And put
C
to sea a
G
gain
Am

C
Drained all my passion
G
my anger and my fe
D
ars
Em

And sank
C
them in a flagon
G
Am

Under Gladstone pier”
Em

C
She saw him through the Greyhound window
G

As the dawn
D
glowed on the chrome
E

C
Standing by the pier under sullen skies
G

Am
Sea winds calling home
D

C
From surfers up to Townsville
G

Past the high-r
D
ise colonies
Em

C
Fast food, cheap hotels
G

Two more boom-to
Am
wn refugees
D

If you want to learn Redgum Gladstone Pier guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Gladstone Pier. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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