Blue Sky Mine Chords

Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
Capo: 1
 
[Intro]
e|--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0-|--1--1--1-0-0-1-|--1--0--3-3-0--|
B|--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1-|--3--3--1-1-1-3-|--3--1--1-1-1--|
G|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
D|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
A|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
E|----------------|--------------|----------------|---------------|
 
Dm     F        Dm  G             Dm          Am      F   C
Dm     F        Dm  G             Dm          Am      F   G
 
[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       F    G
  Hey  hey hey  hey   There'll be pay in your pocket tonight
   C                          Am
My gut is wrenched out, it is crunched up and broken
   C                        Am
My life that is lived is no more than a token
       F                          G                 Am     Bdim
Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why
     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 tonight
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 paupers lie to the share holders
        C                           Am
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
F                     G               Am         Bdim
 The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
       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 pocket can keep me for another night
 
[Bridge]
Am         Bb              Dm            G
And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
G      Bb             Dm            G
If the sugar refining 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    C
There'll be food on the table tonight
C        Dm           F          Dm        G
And is I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
G           Dm          Am       F    C
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's as precious as the hole in the ground
 
[Solo 1]
  C              Am          C            Am    F
e|-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
B|-------------------|-----------------------|-----1--1--1---3b--|
G|--0---0-0-0-0---2--|-------0--0-0-0-0---2--|-----0--2--2-------|
D|--2---2-0-2-0---2--|-------2--2-0-2-0---2--|---3---------------|
A|----------------0--|----3---------------0--|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
  G                   Am
e|-------------------|-----------------------|
B|-------------------|-----------------------|
G|-------------------|---2--0----------------|
D|--------0----------|----------2---0--------|
A|--2--3------0------|--------------------3--|
E|-------------------|-----------------------|
 
[Solo 2]
Bb  Dm  G  Bb  Dm  G
 
[Outro]
F Bb           C
   Who's gonna save me
Am             C       Am
   Who's gonna save me
  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 got 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
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