🎸 Wash It Away chords by Nahko And Medicine For The People

Nahko & Medicine for the People- Wash it Away

   Em   C     G   D
We're a part of something special
    Em   C     G   D
we're a part of something special
    Em   C     G   D
we?re a part of something special
    Em    C
It?s a crack in time
 G   D
A wrinkle
    Em    C      G  D
Fallen from the nest, young eagle
    Em        C
I will pull my feathers out
   G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
  Em   C  G  D
stay humble
 Em    C         G  D
Uncle Mana taught us like an elder
Em  C      G   D
took asunder older brother

he said
 Em   C    G   D
this is powerful country
 Em   C    G   D
this is powerful country
  Em    C    G   D
we felt like we were returning
    Em  C
to our land rebels
    G        D
and the shepherds in the sea
Em     C        G      D
takers are taking what the leavers will leave
  Em   C      G   D
so grieve me the black prince cicada
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such a loud voice for a tiny creature
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teach me to let go of all of my pain
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I do forgive, I don't forget these things
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 I do forgive, I don't forget these things
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We burn the bluegum for a safe passageway
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drink of the earth smoke of the dirt and my warpaint was red
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ochre clay Hoka hey Red ochre clay
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Hoka hey       Red ochre clay
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 Our prayers igniting, cast out into the shire
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 and the song of our struggle came straight from the fire,
it goes:
C    D    Bm
holy holy grandmother,
        C    D    Bm
 we sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering
C        D            Bm
 give us strength for our new beginnings
        C
 In my deepest grace I sing
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it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
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it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
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it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
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It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
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ooh lift ?em up ooh lift ?em up
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In my dreams a whirling aboriginal man
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gave me your hat and your past in one hand he said,
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you've come to be with rainbow serpent
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red hands red land red worship
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 red hands red land red worship
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just then I heard bush mama crying in the chasms
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for the stolen generation and the children who haven't
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 come home come home stay home
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come home come home stay home
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my bullets are my words and my words are my weapons
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 so chain me to the pipeline for our rivers and mountains
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we sing today's a good day for my ego to die
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 today's a good day for my ego to die
    Em   C                G    D
spirit live on in my heart, in my body, my mind
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then sister crow came with the murder that day
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so we tattoed the bird nation onto our faces
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she said we sing to let go of all of our pain
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we dance the story to remember when things changed
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    remember when things changed
Em   C            G    D
    remember when things changed
C    D    Bm
holy holy grandmother,
        C    D    Bm
we sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering
    C    D    Bm
give us strength for our new beginnings
    C
In my deepest thanks I sing
Em   C            G    D
It'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
Em   C            G    D
it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
Em   C            G    D
 it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
Em   C            G    D
 it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ?em up
Em   C            G    D
    ooh lift ?em up    ohh ohhh
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    ooh lift ?em up
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    ooh lift ?em up    ohh ohhh
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    ooh lift ?em up


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We danced the ghost dance in two separate countries
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To this old song so familiar to memory
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the road will teach you how to love and let go
    Em   C                G    D
it can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known
    Em   C                G    D
it can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known
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Our mommas told us let go of jealousy
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and for vagabonds and vagrants, that won't come so easy
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we've come from nothing, nothing
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we have come from nothing, nothing
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teach me to love you in a different way
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 same cuts same guts same crazy
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same cuts same guts same crazy
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I traveled halfway across the country and back
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only to find love undefined and I'm OK with that
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cause I'm gonna be a guardian be a man among men
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be a guardian be a man among men
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or be a woman among women be a guardian
Em   C            G    D
be my friend ooh be my friend
   Em   C     G   D
We're a part of something special
    Em   C     G   D
we're a part of something special
    Em   C     G   D
we?re a part of something special
    Em    C
It?s a crack in time
 G   D
A wrinkle
    Em    C      G  D
Fallen from the nest, young eagle
    Em        C
I will pull my feathers out
   G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
   Em  C  G  D
stay humble
  Em   C  G  D
stay humble