🎸 Verse 1: E My, my Kuiama, she came in the morning E She smiled but the tears on her little face E Showed the pain that had been in that far-off place F#m A E So sad, treated so bad 🎸 Verse 2: E My, my Kuiama, don't break your heart tryin' E To say how your ma and your pa passed away E And they left you to wander the ruin and decay F#m A E Real mean, that bullet machine
🎸 Verse 3: E See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles E Is a long, long way and you're here today E And you won't go back so you might say F#m A E "Hello, how do you do " 🎸 Verse 4: E Kuia, stop your cryin', there's no bombs a-fallin' E No horsemen in the night a-ridin' E F#m A Through your dreams and tearing at your life E Baby, goodnight 🎸 Bridge: C#m B No more silver rain will hit your ground G# And no more guns will sound A No more life be drowned C#m B No more trenches where the soldiers lie G# And no more people die A Beneath that big black sky 🎸 Verse 5: E Wake up Kuiama I got somethin' to tell you E It's just that I mean, well, that is to say E That I'm trying to explain but I'll start again F#m A E For you I must be true 🎸 Verse 6: E Kuia, in this country, they got rules with no reason E They teach you to kill and they send you away E With your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay F#m A E So cool, that no mercy tool 🎸 Verse 7: E Kuia, please believe me I just couldn't help myself E I wanted to run but they gave me a gun E F#m A And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland E I made my stand 🎸 Verse 8: E Kuia I just shot them I just blew their heads open E And I heard them scream in their agony E Kuiama, she waits there for me F#m A E True blue, you saw it through