Midnight Oil
"Dead Heart"
Bm
B E A
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Bm
We don't serve your country .
Don't serve your king .
Know your custom don't speak your tongue .
White man came took everyone
Bm
We don't server your country .
Don't serve your king .
White man listen to the songs we sing .
White man came took everything
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Bm A G
We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A
And that cannot be stolen
Bm A G
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
F#m D A
And that cannot be broken
Bm
Bm
We don't serve your country .
Don't serve your king .
Know your custom don't speak your tongue .
White man came took everyone
Bm
We don't need protection .
Don't need your hand .
Keep your promise on where we stand .
We will listen we'll understand
Bm
Bm A G
.
We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A
And that cannot be stolen
Bm A G
We follow in the steps of our ancestry
F#m D A
And that cannot be broken
Bm
(do do do do do) .
Mining companies, pastoral companies .
Uranium companies .
Collected companies .
Got more right than people
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Got more say than people .
Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state
of things .
The dead earth lives here
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