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INTRO 
 
 
D 
Honey pack your bags, grab your old blue jeans, 
      C                     G                D  Dsus  
We're gonna go fishin' in a mountain stream. 
       D 
Well I know a little shack way up in the hills, 
C                      G 
Twenty-five miles from Harrietville,  
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In the high country. 
 
 
D 
Honey you should see all the stars up there, 
     C                           G               D  Dsus 
They shine so bright through the cold night air. 
          D 
I'm gonna build you a fire that'll burn real hot, 
         C                    G 
And I'll stay with you at the old camp hut, 
            D 
In the high country. 
 
 
            A 
I've got my four-wheel drive and I'm ready to roll, 
   G 
I wanna go flyin' up an old dirt road. 
A 
Up in the hills where the brumbies roam , 
     G                Gsus     G    Gsus 
This land must surely be God's own 
            D       C            D 
In the high country, in the high country. 
 
 
       D 
In the drought of 1882, 
    C                      G               D 
The Maddison's brought the cattle through. 
                 
From Mountain Creek to the Staircase Spur, 
      C                            G 
We'll follow the tracks where they pushed the herd 
               D 
Up to the high country. 
 
 
            A 
I've got my four-wheel drive and I'm ready to roll, 
   G 
I wanna go flyin' up an old dirt road. 
A 
Up in the hills where the snow gums stand, 
        G            Gsus            G  Gsus 
You can see forever across this land 
            D               A 
In the high country, that's where I wanna be, 
G 
Walkin' with you by a mountain stream. 
D                    A 
High country, that's where I wanna go, 
Gsus 
Got my bags packed and I'm ready to roll. 
 
 
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INSTRUMENTAL 
 
 
            A 
I've got my four-wheel drive and I'm ready to roll, 
   G 
I wanna go flyin' up an old dirt road. 
A 
Up in the hills where the snow gums stand, 
        G            Gsus            G  Gsus 
You can see forever across this land 
 
 
                    D  A  G 
I'm headin' for the hi-gh country. 
                D  C  G 
Headin' for the hi-gh country. 
                    D  A  G 
I'm headin' for the hi-gh country. 
                     D      C  G 
That's where I wanna go, hi-gh country.  (repeat similar to fade)