LONG RUN - JOHN SCHUMANN (REDGUM)

    Em                                G

You look out your window at the cold grey dawn

    D                   A

It's seven o'clock on a Monday morning

    G                                 A     Abarre Gbarre

Pour a cup of coffee; better make it a strong one

    Em             G          D

Weatherman on the radio says it's going to rain

    A

And it's going to blow

      Em                  G

It'll be all right; it'll be all right

      D             A

It'll be all right in the long run

Em G D A (GDA are played one beat each)

Australia marched out of Vietnam

Out on the streets against Uncle Sam

We won the fight, it was a long one

Uranium demo the other day

One of my mates got dragged away

As they slammed the door I heard her say

It'll be all right in the long run

Italian/Asian bloke who works with me

We swap laughs and company

And he slapped me on the back

And said "You're wrong son"

This isn't the land I was told it would be

It's not so equal and it's not so free

It'll be all right in the long run

From the shadow of history a convict screams

The shearers curse, the people dream

We've taken some right turns; they've been the wrong ones

Troop ships leave and the headlines blaze

Australia remembers happier days

And the faith lives on within the haze

It'll be all right in the long run

So you sit in your camp and you stare at the fire

The doubts drop away as the hopes get higher

And you sing to yourself

It'll be all right; It’ll be all right in the long run

And the sun gives ground to a long cold night

And you screw up your courage for another fight

But you know in your heart

It'll be all right in the long run

And the sun streams in with power and might

And you look at your kids in a different light

And you know in your heart as you kiss them goodnight

It'll be all right in the long run