#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## <199303171331.AA02314@kaira.hut.fi> Subject: Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 15:31:50 EET X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil Intro: E--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0-|--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0--| B--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1-|--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1--| Verse: Dm F Dm G Dm Am F C Hey hey hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Dm F Dm G Dm Am Hey hey hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight G C Am My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken C Am My life that is lived is no more than token F G Am Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why Bdim C Am If I yell out at night there's a reply of blue silence C Am The Screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence F G Am They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why Chorus: Am Dm F Dm G But if I work all day on the blue sky mine G Dm Am F C There'll be food on the table to night C Dm F Dm G Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine G Dm Am F G There'lll be pay in your pocket tonight Verse: C Am The candy store pauupers lie to share holders C Am They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers F G Am The balance sheet is breaking up the sky Bdim C Am So I'm caught at junction still waiting for medicine C Am The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine F G Am Hope the crumbs in my pcket can keep me for another night Bridge: Am Bb/E Dm G And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue G Bb/E Dm G If the sugar refinning company won't save me F Bb C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Chorus: C Dm F Dm G But if I work all day on the blue sky mine G Dm Am F There'll be food on the table to night C Dm F Dm G And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine G Dm Am F There'll be pay in your pocket tonight C Dm F Dm G And some have sailed from a distant shore G Dm Am F C And the company takes what the company wants Dm F Dm G Dm Am F G And nothing as precious as the hole in the ground Solo: E-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------| B-------------------|-----------------------|-----1--1--1---5---| G--0---0-0-0-0---2--|-------0--0-0-0-0---2--|-----0--2--2-------| D--2---2-0-2-0---2--|-------2--2-0-2-0---2--|---3---------------| A----------------0--|----3---------------0--|-------------------| E-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------| E-------------------|-----------------------| B-------------------|-----------------------| G-------------------|---2--0----------------| D--------0----------|----------2---0--------| A--2--3------0------|--------------------3--| E-------------------|-----------------------| F Bb C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Am F G I pray that sense and reason G C Who's gonna save me Am C Who's gonna save me Am F G We go nothing to fear C Am In the end the rain comes down C Am In the end the rain comes down F G C Washes clean the streets of the blue sky town
