Midnight Oil – Gadigal Land (Guitar)

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[Intro] A G D A G D A G D G D A G D A G D G D G D [Chorus]
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A      G     D      G      D
Welcome to Gadigal country

A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A      G    D   G    D
Do you know our story?

A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
[Verse 1]
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Don’t you bring your poison

A                     G  D
Don’t you bring your grog

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Don’t you bring your smallpox

A                 G  D
Sure to kill our mob

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Don’t you bring your justice

A                     G   D
Don’t you bring your gaols

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Don’t you bring your armies

A                G    D
Troopers on our trails
[Chorus]
   A   G  D   A        G  D
So welcome to Gadigal land

A       G     D    G      D
Welcome to Gadigal country

A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A        G     D     G    D
Have you heard our history?

A   G  D    A      G   D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
[Verse 2]
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We don’t need your convicts

A                     G   D
We don’t need your thieves

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We don’t need your squatters

A             G   D
Or your emancipees

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Don’t you dam our rivers

A                   G   D
Don’t you fell our trees

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Don’t you carve our wilderness

A                  G   D
Don’t you net our seas
[Bridge]
       A
In the land where time stands still

       A
In the land that’s in a spell

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Every day since the day you came is a day of rage

       G
It’s a day of rage
[Chorus]
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

A     G    D G     D
Wenyo wenyo  wenyo!

A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

G      D    G  D
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!
[Interlude]
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Mudjaru ngaya wunyang

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Ngandu bayabawai….ngara

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Ngarawa darayawai, darimi

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Garamawaimi baya mudjin, wa?

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Birrongaingun ngarawan

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Always will be Gadigal land

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It’s unfolding you’re unloading

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Your high and mighty prison ships
[Break] A G D A G D A G D G D A G D A G D G D G D G D [Verse 3]
       A
We can live without your muskets

       A                  G  D
We can live without your guns

       A
We can live without your strychnine

       A                  G  D
We can live without your rum

       A
We can live without your gallows

       A                 G   D
We can do without your chains

       A
We can do without the massacres

       A            G  D
The sorrow and the pain
[Chorus]
   A   G  D   A        G  D
So welcome to Gadigal land

A     G    D      G  D
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!

A   G   D   A        G   D
Welcome to Wiradjuri land

G   D             G    D
Welcome to Yorta Yorta land

A   G  D   A        G    D
Welcome to Arrernte land

A   G  D    G      D
Welcome to Mirning land

A   G  D      A     G   D
Welcome to Gurindji land
[Outro] G D G D
G  D              C  G
 All of the lands

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Welcome!