Redgum - It Doesn't Matter To Me
A song about that great Australian sport - Apathy !
This is predominantly the version from the the album Virgin Ground as documented in
The Redgum Songbook - Stubborn Words, Flagrant Vices
It has an extra verse which is verse 2
This song is played with various changes in words to suit the political times
C Am
I'm in the RSL, I joined the Lions club Friday
F G
My support of sport is thought of highly
C Am
I'm a Class 6 clerk in the P. C.D.
F G
And who the hell is Ayatollah Khomeni? - alternatively (Osama Bin Laden)
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
C Am
Well I never look further than my own back door
F G
Except when wrapped up in my Commodore - alternatively (checking the cricket score)
C Am
I was reading Nostradamus or 1984
F G
(but) I ran out of Valium and then I got bored
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
C Am
Well I prune in June and I plant in October
F G
And I write to the council when a sign gets knocked over
C Am
I always say that channel 10 news is best
F G
Especially when the weather girl wears a low cut dress
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
[Saxaphone solo)
C Am F G repeat 5 times
G
Sheep, Sheep,
C Am F G repeat 2 times
G
Sheep, Sheep
(an additoinal verse from the Caught In The Act version)
C Am
Well I lost a bit of money on Newganhand
F G
To be quite frank i bought a piece land
C Am
The cops dug it up it really was a drag
F G
A whole pile of guns and 2 tonnes of scag
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
[Saxaphone solo)
C Am F G repeat 5 times
G
Sheep Shit !
C Am
Well, my wife ran of to a Women's Shelter
F G
She didn't understand me or why I had to belt her
C Am
My Daughter carries candles for the festival of light - alternatively (for Mary Whitehouse)
F G
The fridge is full of beer and I'm all right
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
C Am
My son's gone of to the Eastern war - alternatively (Afgan War, Third World War)
F G
And Killen wrote a letter explaining what for - alternatively (Howard, someone !)
C Am
It's the very first job the boy's ever held
F G
He'll learn a good trade while he sees the world
(And)
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am
It doesn't matter to me
C G Am F C G C
I'll sit home and watch you all on my colour TV
C Am
I'm watching colour TV
C Am
Thanking God it's not me
C Am F
OPEC, Exxon and ITT - alternatively Telstra, Ergon, GFC
C G C
Presenting World War Three (darh, narh na !)
