Warakurna
Transcribed by...Jonathan Hart.
INTRO:
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LYRICS:
F#m G A there is enough
F#m G A there is enough for everyone
F#m G A there is enough
F#m G A there is enough, in Redfern as there is in Alice
F#m G A there is enough, this is not the Buckingham palace
F#m G A there is enough
G this is the crown land
[intro together with verse chords] F#m G A this is the brown land
F#m G A G this is not our land
F#m G A
G D G D some folks live in water tanks
G D Bm G G D some folks live in red brick flats
F#m G A there is enough, the law is carved in granite
F#m G A there is enough, it's been shaped by wind and rain
F#m G A there is enough, white law could be wrong
F#m G A there is enough, black law must be strong
F#m G A
G D G D Warakurna, cars will roll
G D Bm C don't drink by the waterhole
G D G D court fines on the shopfront wall
G D Bm G G D beat the grog and save your soul
G G D G G Bm some people laugh, some never learn
G G D this land must change or land must burn
G G D G G Bm some people sleep, some people yearn
G G D this land must change or land must burn
VERSE with INTRO x4
G G D G G D diesel and dust is what we breathe
G G D G G D this land don't change and we don't leave
G G D G G Bm some people live, some never die
G G D this land don't change, this land must lie
G G D G G Bm some people leave, always return
G G D this land must change or land must burn
G D G D Warakurna, camels roam
G D Bm C fires are warm and dogs are cold
G D G D not since Lassiter was here
G D Bm G G D black man's got a lot to fear
G G D G G Bm some people laugh, some never learn
G G D this land must change or land must burn
G G D G G Bm some people sleep, some people yearn
G G Bm this land must change or land must burn
G G D this land must change or land must burn
[G G D sequence until end]
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