MIDNIGHT OIL - "Warakurna" Tablature

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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 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
Oils@total.net

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