Blue Sky Mine chords by Midnight Oil

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice





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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:


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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