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Subject: Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 15:31:50 EET
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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--|
Verse:
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
Hey hey hey hey There`ll be pay in your pocket tonight
G C Am
My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
C Am
My life that is lived is no more than token
F G Am
Who`ll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why
Bdim 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:
Am Dm F Dm G
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
G Dm Am F C
There`ll be food on the table to night
C Dm F Dm G
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
G Dm Am F G
There`lll be pay in your pocket tonight
Verse:
C Am
The candy store pauupers lie to share holders
C Am
They`re crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
F G Am
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
Bdim C Am
So I`m caught at 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 pcket can keep me for another night
Bridge:
Am Bb/E Dm G
And if the blue sky mining company won`t come to my rescue
G Bb/E Dm G
If the sugar refinning 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:
C Dm F Dm G
But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
G Dm Am F
There`ll be food on the table to night
C Dm F Dm G
And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
G Dm Am F
There`ll be pay in your pocket tonight
C Dm F Dm G
And some have sailed from a distant shore
G Dm Am F C
And the company takes what the company wants
Dm F Dm G Dm Am F G
And nothing as precious as the hole in the ground
Solo:
E-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
B-------------------|-----------------------|-----1--1--1---5---|
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-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
E-------------------|-----------------------|
B-------------------|-----------------------|
G-------------------|---2--0----------------|
D--------0----------|----------2---0--------|
A--2--3------0------|--------------------3--|
E-------------------|-----------------------|
F Bb C
Who`s gonna save me
Am C
Who`s gonna save me
Am F G
I pray that sense and reason
G C
Who`s gonna save me
Am C
Who`s gonna save me
Am F G
We go 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
