• Song:

    Warakurna

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    Oil From the Outback

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Warakurna  by Midnight Oil
from the album "Diesel and Dust"


INTRO:

e-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------0---2-------------0---------------------------------------|
D-|---4-----------0-------------0-----0-----0---0-----0-------------|
A-|-----------------4---2---------4-----4---------4-----4-0---------|
E-|-2-------------------------------5-----5---------5-------2-------|


LYRICS:

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough for everyone

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, in Redfern as there is in Alice

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, this is not the Buckingham palace

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough

Gthis (320003@1)is the crown land

[intro together with verse chords]
F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)              this is the brown land

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)              this is not our land

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)  G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1) some folks live in water tanks

  G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     Bm (x24432@1)      G (320003@1)G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1) some folks live in red brick flats

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, the law is carved in granite

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, it's been shaped by wind and rain

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, white law could be wrong

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   Athere (x02220@1)is enough, black law must be strong

F#m (244222@1) G (320003@1)   A (x02220@1)  G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1) Warakurna, cars will roll

  G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)    Bm (x24432@1)  C (x32010@1) don't drink by the waterhole

  G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1) court fines on the shopfront wall

  G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)     Bm (x24432@1)      G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1) beat the grog and save your soul

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G   Bmsome (x24432@1)people laugh, some never learn

                                   G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Dthis (xx0232@1)land must change or land must burn

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G   Bmsome (x24432@1)people sleep, some people yearn

                                    G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Dthis (xx0232@1)land must change or land must burn


VERSE with INTRO  x4

           G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Ddiesel (xx0232@1)and dust  is what we breathe

               G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G Dthis (xx0232@1)land don't change and we don't   leave

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Bmsome (x24432@1)people live, some never die

                                       G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G Dthis (xx0232@1)land don't change, this land must lie

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1)       G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G Bmsome (x24432@1)people leave, always return

                                   G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Dthis (xx0232@1)land must change or land must burn

  G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1) Warakurna, camels roam

  G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)      Bm (x24432@1)     C (x32010@1) fires are warm and dogs are cold

  G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1) not since Lassiter was here

  G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)   Bm (x24432@1)      G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1) black man's got a lot to fear

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G   Bmsome (x24432@1)people laugh, some never learn

                                   G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Dthis (xx0232@1)land must change or land must burn

            G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  D (xx0232@1)           G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G   Bmsome (x24432@1)people sleep, some people yearn

                                    G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G  Bmthis (x24432@1)land must change or land must burn

                                    G (320003@1)name="chord_320003@1">G Dthis (xx0232@1)land must change or land must burn


[G G D sequnce until end]


Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net

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