• Song:

    Blue Sky Mine

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    Oil From the Outback

(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)
D5    F5         D5  G5           D5          A5              F5   C5
Hey  hey hey  hey   There'll be food on the table tonight
D5    F5         D5  G5           D5          A5
Hey  hey hey  hey   There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
G5     C5                               A5
My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
  C5                              A5
My life that is lived is no  more than token
      F5                               G5                A5
Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why
B5      C5                        A5
If I yell out at night there's a reply of blue silence
    C5                       A5
The Screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence
   F5                                 G5                    A5
They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why

(refr?o)
A5       D5       F5           D5         G5
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
G5           D5           A5              F5     C5
There'll be food on the table to night
C5       D5             F5         D5         G5
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
G5            D5             A5         F5    G5
There'lll be pay in your pocket tonight

(verse)
C5                                A5
The  candy store pauupers lie to share holders
        C5                              A5
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
F5                    G5                   A5
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
B5         C5                    A5
So I'm caught at junction still waiting for medicine
     C5                           A5
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
          F5                          G5                  A5
Hope the crumbs in my pcket can keep me for another night

(bridge)
A5         Bb5              D5              G5
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
G5     Bb5               D5             G5
If the sugar refinning company won't save me

F5   Bb5              C5
    Who's gonna save me
A5                  C5
    Who's gonna save me
A5                  C5
    Who's gonna save me

(refr?o)
C5           D5       F5          D5        G5
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
G5           D5            A5          F5
There'll be food on the table to night
C5           D5           F5          D5        G5
And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
G5           D5             A5          F5
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
C5    D5        F5               D5       G5
And some have sailed from a distant shore
G5       D5                A5          F5     C5
And the company takes what the company wants
    D5          F5       D5      G5            D5       A5    F5   G5
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 | ------------------- | ----------------------- | 

F5    Bb5            C5
   Who's gonna save me
A5                 C5
   Who's gonna save me
A5  F5                   G5
I pray that sense and reason
G5                  C5
   Who's gonna save me
A5                 C5
   Who's gonna save me
A5                    F5             G5
We go nothing to fear
C5                          A5
In the end the rain comes down
C5                          A5
In the end the rain comes down
F5                       G5                 C5
Washes clean the streets of the blue sky town
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