C
E
In Australia we’ve got deadly animals a plenty.
F
We’ve got funnel web spiders who’ll murder you and your family.
C
E
Under every second rock is a red back spider.
F
And they’ll kill ya just cause, I dunno, they’re bored or whatever.
C
E
We got invisible brown snakes who’ll bite you on the foot,
F
And you’ll be dead in seven minutes, like that, kaput.
C
E
We’ve got the world’s deadliest creatures all over the place.
F
We’ve got magpies who’ll steal the eyeballs from your face –
Am
G
F
But at least we don’t have AR-15’s.
C
E
We’ve got great white sharks who’ll ascend from the deep,
F
And rip ya in half with their razor sharp teeth.
C
E
We’ve got salt water crocs who’ll death-roll you to death,
F
and sea-snakes who’ll gladly snatch your last breath.
C
E
We’ve got a blue ringed octopus no bigger than this,
F
that just sits around in rock pools waiting to kill kids.
C
E
And even the platypus, a cute beaver-duck thing,
F
has got a spur on it’s ankle that’ll kill ya in one sting.
Am
G
F
But at least we don’t have AR-15’s.
Am
G
And at least they can’t end up
F
in the hands of psychopathic teens.
C
E
We’ve got stonefish and stingrays and sea-urchins and shit,
F
and hectic fucken homicidal box jellyfish,
C
E
and these Jellyfish they aren’t even sentient beings,
F
they don’t even really do stuff or know about things.
C
E
They just float around on the whim of the currents,
F
being pointless non-cognitive murderous cunts.
C
E
And if that weren’t enough in terms of natural hazards,
F
here in Australia the sun causes cancer.
Am
G
F
But at least we don’t have AR-15’s.
Am
G
And at least they can’t end up
F
in the hands of suicidal teens.
C
F
And at least we don’t have an NRA,
F
who pay millions of dollars every day,
C
E
F
buying off politicians not to change old laws.
C
E
We got bull sharks, cone shells, salt water crocodiles.
F
Honey bees, european wasps, and blue ringed octopi’s.
C
E
Death adders, blue bottles, red back spiders.
F
Tiger sharks, tiger snakes, and lizards that’ll bite ya.
C
E
We got Sea snakes, taipans, cassowaries, copperheads,
F
all the creatures of the land and sky and sea that want you dead.
C
E
Toadfish, stonefish, irukandgi jellyfish –
F
Bull ants, centipedes, and ticks that cause paralysis.
Am
G
F
But thank fuck we don’t have AR-15’s.
Am
G
And thank fuck they can’t end up
F
in the hands psychopathic suicidal teens.
C
E
And thank fuck we don’t have an NRA
F
who pay millions of dollars every day,
C
E
F
buying off politicians not to change some law.
C
E
F
A law that was written 200 years ago,
C
E
F
in a time when it took three minutes to reload,
Am
G
a single round of ammunition,
F
and we knew nothing about depression,
Am
G
F
and you couldn’t fire 45 rounds in sixty seconds.
C
E
F
And there wasn’t even such a thing as automatic weapons.
C
E
F
And there weren’t thirty one mass-shootings monthly…
C
but what would I know cause I’m from another country.
C
F
E
Am
G
