Midnight Oil – Warakurna (Guitar)

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Chords

[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-------|
[VERSE]
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

F#m   G     A
               this is the brown land

F#m   G     A   G
               this is not our land
F#m G A [CHORUS]
G          D       G     D
some folks live in water tanks

G          D       A         C    D
some folks live in red brick flats
[VERSE]
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 [CHORUS]
G   D      G         D
Warakurna, cars will roll

G           D      A    C
don't drink by the waterhole

G           D      G         D
court fines on the shopfront wall

G         D       A         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
[CHORUS]
G   D      G      D
Warakurna, camels roam

G         D        A        C
fires are warm and dogs are cold

G         D    G       D
not since Lassiter was here

G           D     A      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]