Misc Traditional - Billy Of Tea guitar tab

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:31:40 +1000

From: Kevin Woodgate

Subject: m/misc_folk/billy_of_tea.tab

Billy Of Tea Australian Folk Song

Transcribed by K Woodgate

Easy melody Version

The song can be found on records by the Bushwackers, Cobbers, William Clauson

and many other Australian Folk records.

D G D

e|----------------|-----------------|--------------------|------------------|

B|----------------|-------------3---|-2--0---------------|------------------|

G|-----0---2----2-|-2---2----2------|--------2-----0-----|-----------------2|

D|-4--------------|-----------------|--------------------|-4----4-----4-----|

A|----------------|-----------------|--------------------|------------------|

E|----------------|-----------------|--------------------|------------------|

1 You can talk of your whis-ky talk of your beer, There's some-thing much

ni-

2 So fill up your tum - bler as high as you can And don't you dare tell

3 I rise in the morning as soon as it's light And go to the nose

bag

4 And while it is boiling the horses I seek And foll - ow them

down

5 And at night when I camp if the days has been warm I give to my

6 Then the fire I make and the wa - ter I get And corned beef and

E7 A7 D G D

e|-------------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-----|

B|-------------------|---------------|-------------|----3-----2---0--|-----|

G|-0-----------------|-------------2-|--2--2---2---|-2---------------|-2---|

D|-----4------2----2-|-2--2-----4----|-----------4-|-----------------|-----|

A|-------------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-----|

E|-------------------|---------------|-------------|-----------------|-----|

1 cer that's wait-ing us here, It sits on the fire be-neath the gum tree,

2 me it's not the best plan, You can let all your beer and your spirits go

free

3 to see it's al- right That the ants on the sugar no mortgage have

got

4 as far as the creek I take off their hobbles and let them run free

5 horses their tucker of corn From the two in the pole to the one in the

lead

6 Damper in order, I set But I don't touch the grub though so hungry

I be-

G A7 D

e|----------------|----------------|----------------||

B|----------------|----------------|----------------||

G|-2--0------2----|-----0--0-------|----------------||

D|--------4-------|-0----------4---|-4-2---0-----0--||

A|----------------|----------------|----------------||

E|----------------|----------------|----------------||

1 There's no-thing much ni-cer than a bil-ly of tea

2 I'll stick to my darl-ing old bil-ly of tea

3 And straight away sling my old black bil-ly pot

4 Then haste to tuck in - to my bil-ly of tea

5 A billy for each holds a com - for - ta - ble feed

6 I wait till it's read - y - the bil-ly of tea