Song:     Great Southern Land - Live
Artist:   Iva Davies
Location: Live, The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) Graduation ceremony, Sydney, February 2015
URL:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1&v=TjBkRjKMa-w
Tempo:    6|8
Tuning:   Half-Step Down
Method:   6 & 12 string Acoustic Duo

Capo 4

Chords:   654321
         X33211
         X55433
        X02210
       332010
         XX0232
        022XXX
        002XXX


INTRO:
|  |  |  |


VERSE 1:
              
Standing at th

             
e limit of an 

   
endless ocean,
              
Stranded like 

             
a runaway lost

             
 at sea.

City on a rain

y day down in 

the harbour,
             
Watching as th

            
e gray clouds 

shadow the bay

.
             
Looking everyw

here, ‘ had to

 find you,
            
This is not th

e way that I r

emember it her

e.
             
Anyone, will t

ell you it's a

 prisoner isla

nd,
          
Hidden in the 

summer for a m

illion years.


REFRAIN 1:
              
Great Southern

        
 Land,
              
They burned yo

            
u black.


VERSE 2:
             
So you look in

 
to the land, i

t will tell yo

u a story,
              
Story about a 

  
journey ended 

long ago.
              
Listen to the 

             
motion of the 

           
wind in the mo

untains,
              
Maybe you can 

   
hear them talk

ing, like I do

?
              
They're gonna 


betray you, th

ey're gonna fo

rget you,
              
Are you gonna 

         
let them take 

you over that 

way?


CHORUS 1:
              
Great Southern

         
 Land,
              
In the sleepin

                 
g sun.
              
You walk alone

       
,
              
With the ghost

              
 of time.
              
And they burne

                  
d you black,
              
Black against 

                
the ground.
              
And they make 

             
it work,
              
With rocks and

           
 sand.


VERSE 3:
            
I hear the sou

       
n-d,
            
Of the strange

          
rs' voice-s.
            
I see their hu

          
ngry eye-s,
            
Their hungry e

     
ye-s.


CHORUS 2:
              
Great Southern

         
 Land,
              
Great Southern

            
 Land.
              
You walk alone

       
,
              
Like a primiti

             
ve man.
              
You walk alone

       
,
              
With the ghost

               
 of time.
              
And they burne

                  
d you black,
              
Yeah, they bur

                   
ned you black.


CHORUS 3 & CODA:
              
Gr-eat South-e

               
rn La-nd.

:: INSTRUMENTAL (Riff plays over) ::
              
Great Southern

            
 Land,
              
Great Southern

            
 Land,
              
Great Southern

          
 Land.        

  
  (Slow arpegi

atted fade-out

)


Iva Davies:  “Thank you very much, indeed!”
 

[End]

NOTES.
1.  Despite attention to Iva’s chord changes, I apologise in advance if there’s a subtle change I 
didn’t pickup?  I didn't realise initially, that this performance was a Half-Step Down.
2.  “Icehouse - Great Southern Land - Performed live on campus at the Australian Institute of Music 
Graduation ceremony 2015.”