My Island Home Chords
by Warumpi Band
My Island Home by Warumpi Band is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em and Am. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
This a song by Neil Murray, performed by the Warumpi Band on the 1987 album "Go Bush"
Intro
|G |C |G | |C | |G |
|G |C |G | |D |C |G |
verse 1
G C G
Six years I've been in the desert
C G
And every night I dream of the sea
G C G
They say home is where you find it
D C G
But will this place ever satisfy me
verse 2
G C G
For I come from the salt water people
C G
We always lived by the sea
G C G
Now I'm out here west of Alice Springs
D C G
With a wife and a family
Chorus
Em
And my island home
G
My island home
D C G
My island home is a waiting for me
verse 3
Em D G
In the evening the dry wind blows
G C
From the hills and across the plains
Em D G
I close my eyes and I'm standing
G C
In a boat on the sea again
Em D G
And Iâ??m holding that long turtle spear
G C
And I feel Iâ??m close now to where it must be
D C G
And my island home is a waiting for me
Instrumental
|G |C |G | |C | |G |
|G |C |G | |D |C |G |
verse 4
G C G
For I come from the salt water people
C G
We always lived by the sea
G C G
Now I'm out here west of Alice Springs
D C G
With a wife and a family
Chorus
Em
And my island home
G
My island home
D C G
My island home is a waiting for me
Verse 5
Em D G
In the evening the dry wind blows
G C
From the hills and across the plains
Em D G
I close my eyes and I'm standing
G C
In a boat on the sea again
Em D G
And Iâ??m holding that long turtle spear
G C
And I feel Iâ??m close now to where it must be
D C G
And my island home is a waiting for me
Chorus
Em
And my island home
G
My island home
D C G
My island home is a waitinâ?? for me
Exit Chorus 1
Em
And my island home
G
My island home
D
My island home
Am |Em |C
My island home
Exit Chorus 2 (repeat x3 times)
G
My island home
D
My island home
Am
My island home
C
My island home
Finish on
Em
My island home