Graeme Connors - Ringer And The Princess (recording Version) guitar chord

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everybody called him dingo he didn't seem to mind the name

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aboriginal and asian blood ran fifty fifty in his veins

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with skin like saddle leather an inscrutable kind of smile

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beneath the brim of his akubra he had the dreaming in his

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eyes

She had a bloodline back to Europe the boss' daughter Mary Ann

Home for Christmas at the station from a boarding school in Cairns

with such a perfect face and figure, the boys'd blush when she walked by

behind her back they called her princess coz she had the distance in her eyes

Chorus:

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oh the ringer and the princess the dingo and the deer

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i'll tell you their story if you want to hear

december rain fell with a vengeance from a cyclone in the gulf

bone dry gullies turned to rivers and plains became a sea of mud

so the boss brought everyone together the family and the station hands

to open gates and knock down fences and give the stock a fighting chance

well the princess she was out there riding riding along beside the men

leading horses up to safety trying to bring the stragglers in

till she heard a wild commotion a little further down the way

a mare was trying to cross the gully and her foal was being washed away

now the young have always been impulsive the princess had no second thoughts

she rode her mount into that gully trying to save the drowning horse

but in the midst of the raging waters her pony lost its step and fell

with her foot caught in the stirrup the princess disappeared as well

dingo saw the whole thing happen and like a man possessed he rode

straight into that swollen gully about a hundred yards below

and by the time the others got there all hope of finding her was gone

till dingo staggered from the water with the princess in his arms

Chorus (as above)

Now the princess owns the station her dad the boos has long since died

and although she never married dingo was always by her side

still the gossips talk about them even after all these years

about the ringer and the princess, the dingo and the deer

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about the ringer and the princess, the dingo and the deer

Outro: E x2 E - strum