{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1473491,"song":"Shopping On A Saturday","artist":"Gary Shearston","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11265799-shopping-on-a-saturday-chords-by-gary-shearston/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1473491?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Shopping on a Saturday – Gary Shearston\r\n\r\nIntro: [ch]D[/ch]\r\n\r\nVERSE 1\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]\r\nShopping on a Saturday in 1945,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nGoing in to Tenterfield, a two mile buggy ride,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nGrandma, mum and grandfather, he did all the driving,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nMe perched up beside him, old dog alongside.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nGo Ted let the pony have a head now,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWe'll fly along Casino Road.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nHey Ted, remember what you told me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nEasy, whips don't lighten load.[/tab]\r\n\r\nVERSE 2\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nPull up at Hopsing & Co, Store and General Merchants,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nGrandad heads inside to buy some seed and bailing wire.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nTwelve gauge shotgun cartridges, saltlick for the bayron,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nIce cream for the half grown young man at his side.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nThen on to Kinipin Son Leathergoods and Saddles,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nTopics for discussion there are weather, beasts and fires.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nThey've repaired the bridle that busted on a gum tree,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWhen my pony through me, tried to jump barbed wire.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nOn we go to Royal Hotel tucker, grog shop talking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nNeighbour farmers say g'day, exchange the harvest news.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nSeason come and season go, life remains a battle,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nDrovers talk of cattle, rocky river ewes.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nGo Ted let the pony have a head now,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWe'll fly along Casino Road.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nHey Ted, remember what you told me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nEasy, whips don't lighten load.[/tab]\r\n\r\nVERSE 3\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nStretched along the homeward track, tigersnake sunbaking,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nGranddad hits the brake to try and kill it with a slide.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nJust missed – look out! Now the thing is tangled in the back spokes,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nBlimey this is no joke, everybody fly.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nBuggy stands abandoned ship, grandma holds the pony,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nWe all watch with baited breath as granddad kneels a stride,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nThe back seat of his Cadillac, aiming for the right spot,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nSlowly squeezes one shot, all that is required.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nClamber back on board again, set off at a fast trot,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nGranddad takes some flack about the nature of his slide,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nHears it out good-humouredly, hard to raise his hackles,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWinks at me and cackles, don't know till you've tried.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nGo Ted let the pony have a head now,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWe'll fly along Casino Road.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nHey Ted, remember what you told me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nEasy, whips don't lighten load.[/tab]\r\n\r\nVERSE 4\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nThere's the farm up on the hill, shining like a beacon,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nSoon we're home unloaded and the gear is stashed away.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nSupper time by lantern light, then round the piano,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nFamily in tableau, sing to end the day.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nMountain bush and southern sky still the same as ever,[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch] \r\nGraves upon the hillside mark the time that's passed away.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nNow I come to think of it memory has no curtain,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nLife was lived for certain, old and in the way.[/tab]\r\n\r\nCHORUS\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nGo Ted let the pony have a head now,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nWe'll fly along Casino Road.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nHey Ted, remember what you told me,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] \r\nEasy, whips don't lighten load.[/tab]\r\n\r\nOUTRO\r\n\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]A[/ch] [ch]D[/ch]","plain_text":"Shopping on a Saturday – Gary Shearston\n\nIntro: D\n\nVERSE 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVERSE 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVERSE 3\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVERSE 4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHORUS\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOUTRO\n\nG D G D G D A D","chords":["D","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}