Midnight Oil
"Warakurna"
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There is enough for everyone .
In Redfern as there is in Alice .
This is not the Buckingham Palace .
This the crown land .
This is the brown land .
This is not our land
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Some folks live in water tanks
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Some folks live in red brick flats
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There is enough, the law is carved in granite .
It's been shaped by wind and rain .
White law could be wrong .
Black law could be strong
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Warakurna, cars will roll
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Don't drink by the water hole
D G
Court fines on the shopfront wall
D G A C D
Beat the grog and save your soul
D GG D
Some people laugh, some never learn
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This land must change or land must burn
GG D
Some people sleep, some people yearn
Bm
This land must change or land must burn
GG D
D GG D
Diesel and dust is what we breathe
This land don't change and we don't leave
D GG D
Some people live, some never die
GG Bm
This land don't change this land must lie
D GG D
Some people leave, always return
GG Bm
This land must change or land must burn
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Warakurna, camels roam
D G A C D
Fires are warm and dogs are cold
D G
Not since Lassiter was here
D G A C D
Black man's got a lot to fear
D GG D
Some people laugh, some never learn
GG Bm
This land must change or land must burn
GG D
Some people sleep, some people yearn
Bm
This land must change or land must burn
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