A	A
Well I'm	holed up in	Hokitika

	D	A
I'm	living on whitebait and	Monteith's bitter

	A	E	A
That's	my life without the litter that the	big city	brings

	A	A
	Take to the highway	when it calls

	D	A
	Pull outa town when the	evening falls

	A	E	A
I got the	waves, the hills, and the moon for walls,	carrying my wheels	along

	D	A
	This is the	land

	E	A
	I will bury with	me

	D	A	E
	From the mountains	in the east to the	sea

	D	A
Where the	gold lies in the	river

	A	D
And the	coal lies in the	mines

	D	A	Bm	A
Where the	Karamea	Cowboy loves to	e-ease his restless	mind

	A	A
	Singing songs on the	merry-go-round

	D	A
Of	crowded bars and	crowded towns

	A	E	A
	Leaving Louisiana and West Coast bound,	died and gone to	Westport

	A	A
A	way for a night, a	way for long

	D	A
It	doesn't really matter how	long you're gone

	A	E	A
	There comes a time when you gotta go home, to	fe-ed your sani	ty

	A	A
	I can't explain why I	feel this way

	D	A
Like an	east coast	castaway

	A	E	A
	Too many clouds and not enough rain, to	feed my	soul

	A	A
So I'm	holed up in	Hokitika

	D	A
	Living on whitebait and	Monteith's bitter

	A	E	A
That's	my life without the litter that the	big city	brings

	D	A	Bm	A
Where the	Karamea	Cowboy loves to	e-ease his restless	mind

	D	A	Bm	A
Where the	kid from Kara	mea loves to	spend just a little	time