INTRO: 
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LEAD GUITAR RIFF: 
 
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I was born in a hat town, raised on the Warrego 
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It's hard out here but you tough it out like an old brigalow 
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From the back of the channel country across the western plains 
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The roads are straight & dusty and the folks are much the same 
 
 
CHORUS: 
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Roots run strong and deep out here in a hat town 
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And we'll carry on down through the years in a hat town 
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Well it might be Thargomindah, it might be Barclay Downs 
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If there's a pub and a store and not much more 
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You're livin' in an old hat town. 
 
 
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Stuck out in a heat haze on a half mile sixty zone 
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Just a rag-tag bunch of buildings made of wood and tin and stone 
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But there's a swag of stories and most of them are true 
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Of how the locals passed the hat around and pulled each other through 
 
 
REPEAT CHORUS 
 
 
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Well we're rouseabouts and drovers 
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We're bushies tried and true 
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And we're out here for the long haul 
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We're not just blowin' through 
 
 
CHORUS: 
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Roots run strong and deep out here in a hat town 
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And we'll carry on down through the years in a hat town 
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From the back of the channel country and across the dusty downs 
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If there's a pub and a store and not much more 
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You're livin' in an old hat town. 
 
 
 
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Ooooh 
 
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Yodeleyeeeeeeee 
 
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Livin' in a hat town, livin' in an old hat town 
 
     D   Am7   G    D 
Yodeleyeeeeeeee 
 
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Livin' in a hat town, livin' in an old hat town