F Am C
Give it time and wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry and we sleep in
G
your dust because we've seen this all before.
F Am
Culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned hollow with shame we
C G
have seen this all, seen this all before.
F Am
Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work, same spirit by side,
C G
joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.
F Am
Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work, same spirit by side,
C G
joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.
F Am C G
Slowly it fades…….. Slowly we fade
F Am C G
Slowly it faaaaades…….. Slowly we fade
F Am C
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
G C
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
F Am F
Emanayo yo yo yo………….Emanayo yo yo yo
C G F
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
F Am F C
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
G
has, seen this all before she has
F Am F C
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
G
has, seen this all before she has
F Am C G
Slowly it fades…….. Slowly it fades
F Am C G F Am
Slowly we faaaaade…….. Slowly we faaaaaaaaaaaaaade
C G F
Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaaades
F Am C
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
G
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
F Am C
Emanayo yo yo yo………….Emanayo yo yo yo
C G
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
F Am C
Soldier on soldier on my good country man. Keep fighting for your culture,
G
now keep fighting for your laaaaand.
F
I know it’s been thousands of years and I feel your hurt and I know it’s wrong
Am C
and you feel youve been chained and broken and burned and those beautiful old
G
people those wise old souls have been ground down for far too long by that
F Am C
spineless man that greedy man that heartless man deceiving man government hand
G
taking blood and land taking blood and land and still they can but your
F Am
dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on and it is so so so strong in the
C G
earth in the trees in the rocks in the water in your blood and in the air we
breath
F Am C
Soldier on soldier on my good country man, keep fighting for your children
G F
now keep fighting for your laaaaaaaaaaand
F Am C G F Am
Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaads
C G
slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades
F Am F C
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
F G F
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
F Am C
Give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry and we sleep
F G
in your dust because weve seen it all before
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