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Version 1Blue 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