Alright by Cast

Intro:  G#  F#  C#  (x2)

G#              F#                C#
   I guess I’m alright, guess I’m alright,
G#                   F#                   C#
   I guess I’m doin’ fine, guess I’m doin’ fine,
F#          C#        F#             C#
D’y'think I miss you, do you think I care,
F#          C#           G#
D’y'think I lay down and die.

               C# F#  G#
You never even tried,
               C# F#  G#
You never even tried.

G#                F#                   C#
   Now it’s about time, it’s the right time,
G#                    F#                      C#
   If you willed your mind, if you willed your mind,
F#        C#        F#              C#
So fly on swift now, on your journey home,
F#               C#            G#
And you fled the nest now, and you have flown.

                        C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you don’t know,
                        C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you don’t know.

(solo)

                        F#       G#              C#
   Look out to sea, and tell me what we came here for,
F#                 G#               C#               F#
   Is it what they say, or is there more than we can know,
       G#
and if so,
                  C#  F#  G#
Which way am I to go,
                  C#  F#  G#
Which way am I to go.

G#              F#                C#
   I guess I’m alright, guess I’m alright,
G#                   F#                   C#
   I guess I’m doin’ fine, guess I’m doin’ fine,
F#           C#        F#       C#
Can’t see no reasons, for not pushing through,
F#               C#          G#
So make like the wind that’s blowing you,

                      C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you can do,
                      C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you can do,
                      C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you can do,
                      C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you can do,
                      C# F#  G#
Ain’t nothing you can do.

Just by Radiohead – love it on acoustic

C (x3555x)
Eb (x6888x)
D (x5777x)
F (x8(10)(10)(10)x)
Am (577555)
G# (466544)
Eb* ((11)(13)(13)(12)(11)(11))
Bb (688766)
G (355433)
F* (133211)

INTRO:        | C    | Eb    | D    | F    |  (x3)

        Am                      G#                             Eb*    Bb
VERSE 1:                  Can’t get the stink off, he’s been hanging round for days
        Am                 G#                            Eb*   Bb
         Comes like a comet, suckered you but not your friends
        Am                       G#                         G    G#   F*
BRIDGE 1:                 One day he’ll get to you and teach you how to be a ho – ly   cow

                         C        Eb     D                  F
COURUS 1:                You do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts
                            C         Eb   D              F
        Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
                         C  Eb  D  F                 C  Eb  D  F
        You do it to yourself____    you do it to yourself____

        Am                      G#                         Eb*   Bb
VERSE 2:                  Don’t get much sympathy hanging out the fifteenth floor
        Am
         Changed the locks three times
        G#                                  Eb    Bb
         He still comes reeling through the door

        Am                        G#                           G     G#  F*
BRIDGE 2:                 And soon he’ll get to you and teach you how to get to pur – ist hell

                         C        Eb     D                  F
COURUS 2:                You do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts
                            C         Eb   D              F
        Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
                         C  Eb  D  F                 C  Eb  D  F
        You do it to yourself____    you do it to yourself____

SOLO:        | C     | Eb     | D     | F     | C     | Eb     | D     | F     |
        | Am    | G#     | Eb*   | F*    | Am    | G#     | G  F# | F*    |
        | C     | Eb     | D     | F     | C     | Eb     | (F)   |

           (F)           C        Eb     D                  F
COURUS 3:                You do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts
                            C         Eb   D              F
        Is you do it to yourself just you, you and no-one else
                         C  Eb  D  F                 C  Eb  D  F
        You do it to yourself____    you do it to yourself____

OUTRO:        | C     | Eb     | D     | F     |  (x9)  

        | C     | Eb     | D     |

Day 7 – Into Namibia

That’s a whole week.

It wasn’t until we were filling in our entry cards that I realised that in fact most of the tour was in Namibia, doh!  Still didn’t change what I knew we were going to see, I just though the last part was in Botswana.  Still, I will get to that later.

If yesterday was a drive an do little day, today was a drive but do a little day.

There was a bit to see and the landscape was becoming very deserted, the roads had become the same, no tarmac, asphalt or bitumen in site.  We drove across the boarder painlessly and it was a pretty nice one as borders go, and impressive rock face and river.  Then we bombed it into the camp, put up our tents and went to see the Fish River Canyon (pictured).

Day 4 – Cape town + Robben Island

A quick lesson on Cape town and then a brief history lesson.  Cape town is like all the other South African cities; scared! Scared of crime and in particular violent crime, almost every private residence has a 10 foot fence and where at the top the spikes are ill effective, most fences have 3 rows of electric fence.  It is sad to see, and is as much to do with the effect of fear on human behaviour and affordability of fences as it has to do with reality.  No South African I spoke to had first hand experience of crime, although ‘that is hardly suprising no’. 

As a result of this visitors are all funnelled to the private areas of town and in Cape Town this is the Waterfront which is a collection of overpriced shops and the like.  The Waterfront is the gateway to Robben Island and thanks to a fella from my old work this is where we booked in the morning for the 3pm ferry.  Actually we were very lucky as this tour is booked up days in advance normally, however the Tri-Nations were in town and so by 3pm no one wanted to risk missing kick off.  On this note we saw hundreds of springbok shirts, as you would expect, however, and read into this as you will, all were worn by whites only.

I did get a chance to buy a pair of appropriate footwaer for the tour and this meant I could get out of the Dunlop Volleys and as I sat down to change a begger caught me and asked for the usual.  I said I had no change, you get used to this when you live in a city, and just as I thought he would piss off, he said “how about your old shoes then?”, the bold request earned him a few Rand, a smile from me and a mention here.

Robben island is about 20 minutes from cape town by ferry and in case you weren’t aware it is where Mandella was imprisioned for 18 years.  We got a tour from one of his fellow prisoners who was also imprisoned for political reasons and it was one off the most eye opening tours I’ve ever attended.  We saw the tiny cell Mandella was kept in, but really the fella who showed us arround is what made the experinece so powerfull. I can’t begin to do the story justice but will whack the wiki link here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela

 

Day 3 – Into Cape town by train

A third day on the preverbal road and still no closer to seeing lions.  Train travel beats planes any day of the week, even when there is close to nothing out of the window and it take 20x longer, central South Africa is a whole world of nothing.

Arriving into Cape town was a little exciting, we were late and so were arriving as the sun set and having cruised up to and around table mountain we got a nice view of the slums and sea just before the sun set.  Arriving late meant having to find our taxi in the dark, not a prospect I was looking forward to.

Guest house was a winner, very nice little place and better value than the bigger places.  We hardly ventured out except down to the main road between the guest house and the famous Waterfront area next to which the new World Cup stadium is being constructed. Although it felt largely safe the, cars were all BMWs and the like, there was private security everywhere which was a little unsettling.

Day 2 – Out of Jo’burg by train

Another pretty uneventful day. Up at 8am (midday Sydney time) and after a big hotel breakfast, always is big when there’s a buffet, we had a short wait for the taxi to pick us up and take us to the station.  The station was hectic and our driver pointed out the guys who come in from Zimbabwe to buy food by bus.

We were in the lounge at the station and so aside from our walk from the taxi we saw very little of the centre.  Having got out of the underground station and into the light we left Jo’Burg at dusk, the city is like a big Stoke on Trent except the train line doubles as a footpath and Alton Towers.

Day 1 – The Airport Grand (aka The Apple Grand)

First we needed to get from Sydney to Jo’Burg and I never know whether to love or hate those early flights! Our flight was at 10am and so that’s up at 5:30, but then at least there is no waiting around.  We had a nice breakfast courtesy of our neighbours, Lydia and Tony who were very kind to pop around the night before with a packed lunch; who knows how they knew Ivana hadn’t prepared one.

Flying west always means a long day, so we set off at 10am and landed at about 5pm after 12 hours in the air.  We flew over Antarctic and some lucky window seats saw snow capped mountains and enormous icebergs.  I was not in a window seat.  The long flight wasn’t made any easier by sharing it with the 1969 Aussie rugby squad, all half deaf and all still like VB.

Long day and no sleep until until the Airport Grand, a typical hotel at the end of the runway next door to an industrial estate, were daren’t go out in the dark.

That was the first day of the holiday and our first steps on African soil (tarmac).

Botswana to South Africa

27th August – 30th August

27th : Chobe to (19) Nata

28th : Limpopo to (20) Johannesburg

29th : (21) Johannesburg breakfast and Lunch + Hotel

30th : 6pm flight home

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Zambia to Botswana

25th August to 27th August

24th – 25th : Kandro river to (16-17) Livingstone

26th : Livingstone to (18) Chobe

27th : Chobe to (19) Nata

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Namibia to Zambia

11th August – 22nd August

11th : Namaqualand to (3) Fish River Canyon

12th – 13th : Fish River Canyon to (4-5) Sesriem

14th – 15th : Sesriem to (6-7) Swakopmund

16th : Swakopmund to (8) Spitzkoppe

17th : Spitzkoppe to (9) Damaraland

18th –20th : Damaraland to (10-12) Etosha (Okavango)

21st – 22nd : Etosha (Okavango) to (13-14) Capitvi

23rd : Capitvi to (15) Kandro

24th – 25th : Kandro river to (16-17) Livingstone

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