Warakurna by Midnight Oil
from the album «Diesel and Dust»
INTRO:
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LYRICS:
F#m G A
there is enough
F#m G A
there is enough for everyone
F#m G A
there is enough
F#m G A
there is enough, in Redfern as there is in Alice
F#m G A
there is enough, this is not the Buckingham palace
F#m G A
there is enough
G
this is the crown land
[intro together with verse chords]
F#m G A
this is the brown land
F#m G A G
this is not our land
F#m G A
G D G D
some folks live in water tanks
G D Bm G G D
some folks live in red brick flats
F#m G A
there is enough, the law is carved in granite
F#m G A
there is enough, it’s been shaped by wind and rain
F#m G A
there is enough, white law could be wrong
F#m G A
there is enough, black law must be strong
F#m G A
G D G D
Warakurna, cars will roll
G D Bm C
don’t drink by the waterhole
G D G D
court fines on the shopfront wall
G D Bm G G D
beat the grog and save your soul
G G D G G Bm
some people laugh, some never learn
G G D
this land must change or land must burn
G G D G G Bm
some people sleep, some people yearn
G G D
this land must change or land must burn
VERSE with INTRO x4
G G D G G D
diesel and dust is what we breathe
G G D G G D
this land don’t change and we don’t leave
G G D G G Bm
some people live, some never die
G G D
this land don’t change, this land must lie
G G D G G Bm
some people leave, always return
G G D
this land must change or land must burn
G D G D
Warakurna, camels roam
G D Bm C
fires are warm and dogs are cold
G D G D
not since Lassiter was here
G D Bm G G D
black man’s got a lot to fear
G G D G G Bm
some people laugh, some never learn
G G D
this land must change or land must burn
G G D G G Bm
some people sleep, some people yearn
G G Bm
this land must change or land must burn
G G D
this land must change or land must burn
[G G D sequnce until end]
Jonathan Hart
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