The Last Frontier

 

Intro

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There's a corrugated highway

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Leading north from Port Augusta lined

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With ratted cars that didn't rate a tow

 

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Salt plains out of Pimba

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And your eyes begin to stream

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On to Kingoonya huddle dusty by the road

 

Romantic notions shattered

Like the tyre's that didn't hack it

This has got to be, the countries last frontier

 

Where a sports car's next to useless

Running cattle grids and river beds

We drove a van from 1963

 

 

Chorus

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Some mentioned walkabout

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And kiss your job goodbye

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Just to see the country shimmer thought the windscreen

 

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Drinking beer, telling stories

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While laughter filled the night

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Flexi-time�s behind you like a bad dream

 

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Got a flat on ANZAC highway

And Lawson on your shelf

It's a southern comfort air-condition rage

 

Where a homestead is more than

Just a cheap print, dangling from a wall

And mateships� more than line's upon a page

 

We went looking for Australia

In between the TV lines

�Cause the ABC just couldn't make it real

 

A colour documentary

From a bean bag on the floor

Never show's as much as it conceals

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A Stark and blistered Alice Springs

And a river runs with shame

And you wipe the sheets of bull dust from your eyes.

 

Another countries uniform

And the mirage it falls apart

To the open gap between the truth and lies

 

Go and see your country mate

The Travel agents scream

Politicians sell it heart just for a past time

 

Sign's and high wire fences

Of a land where I belong

It's as if I'm in the outback for the last time

 

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