Blue Sky Mine

Midnight Oil

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capo 1 — sounds a semitone higher

Intro

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Hey hey hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight

Hey hey hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

Verse 1

My gut is wrenched out, it is crunched up and broken

My life that is lived is no more than a token

Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why

If I yell out at night, there's a reply of blue silence

The screen is no comfort, I can't speak my sentence

They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why

Chorus

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine

There'll be food on the table tonight

Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine

There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

Verse 2

The candy store paupers lie to the share holders

They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers

The balance sheet is breaking up the sky

So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine

The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine

Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night

Bridge

And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue

If the sugar refining company won't save me

Who's gonna save me

Chorus

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine

There'll be food on the table tonight

And if I walk up and down on the blue sky mine

There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

And some have sailed from a distant shore

And the company takes what the company wants

And nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

Solo 1

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