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1.Tjapaltjarri is a bush black fellow He
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travels the desert like a moving shadow with his boomerang and spears
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He's a clever man sings_____________ yeah
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9.He sings a storm to drive them back He sings a storm they're
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bogged in their tracks he's a clever man He's a
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clever man 15.Who'll ever see a-
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nother black fellow walk this country like a moving shadow Living
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strong and free and really alive
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Who'll ever see that a-gain? Who'll ever do that a-gain? Like a
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clever man Like a clever man
2.He lights a fire without a match
He gets his water from a soakage not a tap
He's a clever man, he's a clever man
3.One day he walked into the settlement
He came to meet up with his relatives
And they gave him things to cover his skin
4.Whitefellas came by car and plane
They wanted his photo they wanted his name
They wanted a story of a primitive man
5.This is a land of sixteen million
Towns and cities, roads and bridges
Well he's not impressed, he's a clever man
6.He don't want your money he don't want your clothes
He don't want your gadgets he don't want the microphone
He wants to be left alone, he's a clever man
7.White man's proud of his four wheel drive
Thinks he can go anywhere he likes
But he don't come close, he's a clever man
8.Tjapaltjarri goes to a far western plain
There is a place they make the rain
And he sings, and he sings yeah
9.He sings a storm to drive them back
He sings a storm they're bogged in their tracks
He's a clever man, he's a clever man
10-13.Hey oh
Hey oh
Hey oh
14.You've seen it come you've seen it go
Who'll do it again who'll wanna know
About a clever man, a full doctor business man
15.Who'll ever see another black fellow
Walk this country like a moving shadow
Living strong and free and really alive
16.Who'll ever see that again?
Who'll ever do that again?
Like a clever man, like a clever man
EADGBE
C#m for verses 1-8, 15-16: x46650
C#m for verses 9-14: x46654
Bno3sus4: x24400