Midnight Oil – Blue Sky Mine (Guitar)

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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--|
G|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
D|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
A|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
E|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
Dm F Dm G Dm Am F C Dm F Dm G Dm Am F G
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      F    G
  Hey  hey hey  hey   There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
[Verse 1]
   C                          Am
My gut is wrenched out, it is crunched up and broken

   C                        Am
My life that is lived is no more than a token

       F                         G                 Am     Bdim
Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why

     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]
         Dm       F          Dm       G
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine

            Dm           Am     F    C
There'll be food on the table tonight

        Dm          F           Dm       G
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine

            Dm           Am      F    G
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
[Verse 2]
    C                       Am
The candy store paupers lie to the share holders

        C                           Am
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers

F                     G               Am     Bdim
 The balance sheet is breaking up the sky

       C                            Am
So I'm caught at the 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 pocket can keep me for another night
[Bridge]
           Bb              Dm            G
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue

       Bb             Dm            G
If the sugar refining 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]
         Dm       F          Dm        G
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine

            Dm            Am    F    C
There'll be food on the table tonight

         Dm           F          Dm        G
And if I walk up and down on the blue sky mine

            Dm          Am       F    C
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

    Dm        F             Dm      G
And some have sailed from a distant shore

        Dm       Am             F       C
And the company takes what the company wants

    Dm           F       Dm    G           Dm  Am  F  G
And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

[Solo 1]
    C             Am        C            Am    F
e|-------------------|----------------------|------------------|
B|-------------------|----------------------|----1--1--1---3b--|
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|-------------------|----------------------|------------------|

  G            Am
e|-------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-------------------|
G|-------------------|---2-0-------------|
D|--------0----------|---------2---0-----|
A|--2--3------0------|-----------------3-|
E|-------------------|-------------------|
[Solo 2] Bb Dm G Bb Dm G [Outro]
F   Bb          C
    Who's gonna save me

Am              C       Am
    Who's gonna save me

  F                   G
I pray that sense and reason brings us in

             C
(Who's gonna save me)

Am              C
   (Who's gonna save me)

Am                  F    G
  We got 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