{"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":1791356,"song":"Native Born Albert Namatjira","artist":"Archie Roach","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11394303-native-born-albert-namatjira-chords-by-archie-roach/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1791356?type=chord","rating":4.67217,"votes":3,"content":"\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAlbert Namatjira painted not so much the things he saw[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                                  [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nBut what he felt inside and how he loved the Flinders Range[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe only thing he ever wanted the reason that he painted for[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                             [ch]B7[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWas that everybody share the dream his land would never change[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAh But change it did and through the years they introduced some foreign plants[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                                                        [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nFamiliar things are strange while strangers play upon the lawn[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd mother land has shed her tears for lives that never stood a chance[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]B7[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd Albert Namatjira cried, as we all cry the Native Born[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo bow your head old eucalypt and wattle tree[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B7[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAustralia's bush is losing it's identity[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile the cities and the parks that they have planned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLook out of place because the spirit's in the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLook out of place because the spirit's in the land[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDo you remember Joseph Banks who stood upon this sacred earth[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                             [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nAnd what he felt inside when he looked around and saw[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nthe land to whom we give our thanks our mother land who's given birth [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]B7[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo trees and plants and animals he'd never seen before?[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]                             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo bow your head old eucalypt and wattle tree[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B7[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAustralia's bush is losing it's identity[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B7[/ch]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhile the cities and the parks that they have planned[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLook out of place because the spirit's in the land[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                                         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLook out of place because the spirit's in the land[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut no one knows or no one hears the way we used to sing and dance[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                                         [ch]B7[/ch]\r\nAnd how the gum trees stood and stretched to greet the golden morn[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand mother land still sheds her tears for lives that never stood a chance[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                         [ch]B7[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd Albert Namatjira cried as we all cry the native born[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]B7[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe cry the native born [/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["E","A","B7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,3,0,4],"frets":[-1,2,1,2,0,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}