John Williamson – Home Among The Gum Trees Chords

I’ve been around the world a couple of times or maybe more
I’ve seen the sights and had delights on every foreign shore
But when my mates all ask me of the place that I adore
I tell them right away

Give me a home among the gum trees
with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

You can see me in the kitchen a cooking up a roast
Or vegemite on toast just you and me a cup a tea
And later on we’ll settle down and go out on the porch
And watch the possums play

Give me a home among the gum trees
with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

Give me a home among the gum trees with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

There’s a Safeway on the corner and a Woolies down the street
And a brand new place they’ve opened up where they regulate the heat
But I’d trade them all tomorrow for a little bush retreat
Where the kookaburras call kook kook kook ka ka ka

Give me a home among the gum trees
with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

Give me a home among the gum trees with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

Some people like their houses built with fences all around
Others live in mansions and some beneath the ground
But me I love the bush you know with rabbits runnin’ round
And a pumpkin vine out the back

Give me a home among the gum trees
with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair

Give me a home among the gum trees with lots of plum trees
A sheep or two a kangaroo a clothes line out the back
Verandah out the front and an old rocking chair