#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## From: s.coombs@mailbox.uq.oz.au (Steve Coombs) Subject: CRD: From St. Kilda to King's Cross by Paul Kelly >From St. Kilda to King's Cross by Paul Kelly (from the "Post" album). A beautiful song (but personally I prefer Brisbane :)). Any comments, corrections or even thanks are welcome Intro: G |Emin |C C/B Amin X2 G |Emin |C C/B Amin | >From St. Kilda to King's Cross is thirteen hours on a bus G |Emin |C C/B I press my face against the glass and watch the white lines Amin | rushing past C |D |Emin And all around me felt like all inside me |Amin |C |D | And my body left me and my soul went running G |Emin |C C/B Amin | Have you ever seen king's Cross when the rain is falling soft G |Emin |C C/B Amin | I came in on the evening bus from Oxford Street I cut across C |D | And if the rain don't fall too hard Emin |Amin | Everything shines just like a postcard C |D |G | Everything goes on just the same C |C |G | Fairweather friends are the hungriest friends C |Emin G | I keep my mouth well shut, I cross their open hands Solo : G |Emin |C C/B Amin X2 C |D |Emin |Amin |C |D | G |Emin |C C/B Amin | I want to see the sun go down from St. Kilda esplanade G |Emin |C C/B Amin | Where the beach needs reconstruction, where the palm trees have it hard C |D I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour Emin |Amin | All that land, all that water, C |D | for that one sweet promenade. C |D I'd give you all of Sydney Harbour Emin |Amin | All that land, all that water, C |D | for that one sweet promenade. End: G |Emin |C C/B Amin | (repeat to fade)