Midnight Oil

Accords et partitions

Angels of the Silences

B E A G#m F#m

Well I guess you've left me with some feathers in my hand Didn't make it any easier to leave me where I stand I guess there might not be too many who would stand beside you now Where'd you come from, where'm I going What'd you leave me till I'm only good for

Antarctica

C Em D A

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[Verse] I'm a snow plough I must now plough on I'm a snow plough I'm a settler's son

Antartica

C Em D A

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LYRICS: I'm a snow plough I must now plough on I'm a snow plough I'm a settler's son

Arctic World

D G Bm C A E

I don't want to grow anything in my heart I don't want to write all these things in the sand I don't wish to listen and not understand I don't want to tramp up the footpath of stars Don't want to be an advocate

At The Time Of Writing

F#m D A B C# F#

There’s nothing much hanging from the tree in the Garden of Eden It takes a long long time for the fruit to ripen on the vine We better get together or we’ll end up on the roof with a shotgun Because a chance, we’ve only got one It’s never very smart to try and strip the bark from an old tree

Back On The Borderline

A G E F# D Em

[Verse 1] From the bar to the bedroom I'm swimming in the neon Lighted pictures of a redhead, plasticoated hot on And sometimes when that mirror shows The smile of disbelief

Barest Degree

D#m F# G#m B C#

I am gone can't waste more time, I said not quite joking. The fire has gone, the big trees stand, the underground is smoking. Remember nothing you've been told, means anything to me, And everything you hold, is mine in the barest degree.

Barka-Darling River

G C Am D D7

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[Verse] Who left the bag of idiots open? Who drank the bottle of bad ideas? Who drew the last drop from the bottom?

Bedlam Bridge

B A E G# D C#m

(same chords) In these locked and shackled neighbourhoods Bridge and tunnel diplomats See the golden ghetto's creeper

Beds Are Burning

E D/E A/E G Em C

Out where the river broke The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels Steam in forty five degrees

Best Of Both Worlds

D E A B Am C

You say times are tough We've got the best of both worlds here E7sus/B C Things are rough We've got the best of both worlds here

Bird Noises

A D G B Bm C

Track List 1. No Time for Games 2. Knife's Edge 3. Wedding Cake Island 4. I'm the Cure

Blossom and Blood

Dm A A# C

Transcribed by...Jonathan Hart. VERSE: BRIDGE:

Blue Sky Mining

Am G Dm C F Bdim

Hey hey hey hey There'll be food on the table tonight Hey hey hey hey There'll be pay in your pocket tonight My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken My life that is lived is no more than token Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why

Bullroarer

B A D C#m Em C

In the desert, in the dry Some sit so high Long day's mile and the Radio crackles and the bones bleached white

Bushfire

G Am F C B F#m

In my shoes, In my shoes There is so much to remind me As the stars come out above me, home

Cemetery In My Mind

G D Am Em C F

Locked in the mall in a state of fright Looking for salvation in a car headlight But you can't have What you can't buy

Comfortable Place On The Couch

D Em C Bm Am E5

2.So you got coastline for fence It could be your first line of defence You'll never be ready for this Ignorance is bliss, haven't you heard Haul away

The Dead Heart

Bsus4 A E Bm F#m B5

We don't serve your country Don't serve your king Know your custom don't speak your tongue White man came took everyone Riff 2

Dreamworld

D E F#m B G A

VERSE CHORDS: The Breakfast Creek hotel is up for sale The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail So farewell to the Norfolk Island pines No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine

Drop In The Ocean

Eb Bb Bb/F Gm Ab7/Gb Db2

Here comes the olive branch man He'll press it any way he can He tries so hard to under - stand

Drums Of Heaven

D E C#m B A Dmaj7

By the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds And tablets of strange love are shattered and bruised By the time the oleander is falling from bloom And tears of the crocodile water the sun

Dust

D G A C F F7

[Verse 1] It's 2 am in Town Hall Station Black walls and sleeping drunks are bad companions Ice is there Fear is there

E-Beat

C D Am G Em Dm

There is a place we're going to It is not green, it is not blue I hope that you understand Devil was a-dancin' on the old foreshore Hittin' up on bright lights and the liquor stores

Earth And Sun And Moon

D G Bm D/F# Em

In the morning we will wake up and take to the air Look back at the planet - I'm glued to my chair Southern half is burning as we climb through the sky Sea birds softly falling, smoke way up high

First Nation

Am F Em Dm

[Verse 1] First nation, First nation, First to deserve an explanation First nation,

Forgotten years

Am G C F D G7

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1. Few of the sins of the father are visited upon the son, Hearts have been hard, Hands have been clenched into fists too long. Our sons need never be soldiers, our daughters will never need guns, These are the years between,

Gadigal Land

G D A E C

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[Chorus] Welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal country Welcome to Gadigal land Welcome to Gadigal land

Golden Age

Am D C G F Em

So tell me what you see (tell me what you see) Tell me what you hear (tell me what you hear) And if it's the same as me it's the golden age It's the golden age

Head Over Heels

D G A E C Em

Dsus2 A It just don't add up This summer fever She turns the truth And I don't believe her

Hercules

B E A F# D G

2ND VERSE We give the best we can give We won't forget we can't forgive Keep us radioactive free

Home

G# F# C# A#m C G

There is a town I was born It is a place I?ve never seen Don?t even know where it is Don?t even know my name

Im The Cure

A B E G D F#

[Vwerse 1] Tell all your friends I'm the cure Tell them again and again Watching the walls, spinning in doors I can bring you peace of mind

In The Valley

F C G A Bb D

My grandfather went down with the Montevideo Rising son took him floating to his rest And his wife fled south to Sydney seeking out safe harbor A North Shore matron she became, with some paying guests

King Of The Mountain

A E D F#m C#m F#sus

Verse: Walking through the high dry grass Pushing my way though slow

Knifes Edge

D A C# Bb E G

On a knife edge razor day If you listen long enough they've got nothing to say It's a time warp place don't change The rhythm of the night, the beating rain

Koala Sprint

E a D G Cm Bm

And out from the echoes of the night Concrete caverns catch the sky and hold the stars to ransom A thousand dreams, it's getting late Thousand runners standing still I can smell the sand and sea again

Kosciusko

A G D Bb C

1. Older than Kosciusko, Darwin down to Alice Springs, Dealers in the clearing-house, the settlements explode. 2. High up in the homelands, miners drive across the land, Encounter no resistance, when the people block the road

Last Of The Diggers

Em C G D Am F

Same for this verse.... Who will feed the poor Now that the saint of the gutters is gone Who will hear the call You lately come or native born

Lost At Sea

A G Em D E B

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[Verse 1] In the age when the loudest voices win, words are now worth less than silence In these days of so much suffering it's the punch you don't see coming starts the violence We could hear the shoreline pounding in the distance, for a moment we were free Then the sons of White Australia came with guns, and pushed us back to sea

Lucky Country

Dm Am C F Em G

Verse: Speed, and and this There's a feeling I get when I look to the sun Love, it's so tough Cause it raises your hopes and then it makes you run

Luritja Way

A E E5 F#m7 Bm7 G

[Intro] E5 E7sus4 E5 E5 E7sus4 E5 E5 E7sus4 E5 E5 E7sus4 E5

Minutes To Midnight

Am G D F Cm G/B

Everybody say God is a good man Ah, clock on the world Driving a dump truck up to the sun A sigh in the human heart

Mountains of Burma

A F D C G Bm

The tucker box is empty now, the heart of Kelly's country cleared And the gangers on the southern line, Like the steam trains have disappeared Pelicans glide, miracles up in the sky We vote for a government with axes in its eyes

My Country

Am C G F D Dm

Was it just a dream, were you so confused Was it just a giant leap of logic? Was it the time of year, that makes a state of fear Methods, were their motives for the action And did I hear you say

Nobodys Child

D C G Am Bb F

[Verse 1] Beauty love and compassion Look around the world Cause nothing less will do Yeah, I say

One Country

C G D Am Em F

Who'd like to change the world Who wants to shoot the curl Who gets to work for bread Who wants to get ahead Who hands out equal rights

Outbreak of love

D Gm C F# Em Am

1. The world is crashing down on me tonight. The world is crashing down on me tonight. 2. The walls are closing in on me tonight. The walls are closing in on me tonight.

Pictures

A Em D F#m B G

[Verse 1] I just wanna walk through paradise I just want to see that clear clear light Don't want to be a member of a species that's deceasing Keep on making those promises that they ain't keeping

Power And The Passion

Bm C# D#m F# Em B

[Verse 1] People wasting away In paradise Going backwards, once in a while Taking your time, give it a try

Profiteers

C Bb G F# Em Am6

Fade in (time 5 8) Etc. Riff 1

Progress

C Em Am G D Dm

Transcribed by...Pugwall. RIFF VERSE (with singing over top)

Put down that weapon

C Em D Am B7

Pas de barré

1. Under the water line, no place to retire, To another time the eyes of the world now turn And if we think about it, and if we talk about it, And if the skies go dark with rain, Can you tell me, does our freedom remain ?

Read About It

B E A C#m G#m D

You wouldn't read about it, read about it One unjust ridiculous steal, ain't no doubt about it You wouldn't read about it, read about it Just another particular deal, ain't no doubt about it

The Real Thing

D F E G A# C

Tryin hard to make things happen When the real thing can be so thin But theres a meaning here Is there a meaning here

Redneck Wonderland

Em C E D B A

[Intro] [Riff 1] [Verse 1]

Rising Seas

Eb F Gm Dm Cm Bb

Every child, put down your toys And come inside to sleep We have to look you in the eye And say, "We sold you cheap" Let's confess, we did not act

River Runs Red

G D F C Em A

So you cut all the tall trees down You poisoned the sky and the sea You've taken what's good from the ground But you left precious little for me

Run By Night

D A F# G Am C

[Verse 1] I'm on the whiskey flying, and I'll run by night I'm on the whiskey running, and I'll run by night I'm on the winter cycle, shut my eyes to the bite I'm on the winter cycle, shake my fist at the bite

Safety Chain Blues

B D# E Gb Eb G#

Hanging on like hell to the safety chain Lifebuoy crash lands in pain All the lovers are in retreat Out on the edge of the nervous street

Scream In Blue

C F#m D/A Am A/G Dsus4/F#

Verse 1 Come to me now, be careful of what you say Don't make a sound, there's noise enough in this Come with me now, let night move into day

Seeing Is Believing

C5 D5 E5 D5/C# A G

I was asleep with eyes wide open Dream freeze sprinklers in the sun Beer soaked mansions block the sky, dingos howl and white flags fly The future's put on hold and you're still young

Sell My Soul

Am G F C D F#m

This is the way I play it on acousitic guitar. It is somewhat simplified. INTRO rhythm (chords): INTRO lead:

Shakers and Movers

A D F#m E Bm C

Won't you come on down the line Away from barren ground The harlot and the autocrat Are they driving you further down

Ships of Freedom

Bb F C A Dm Gm

VERSE Jets fly low at the general garden hotel, at St.Peters

Short memory

C Dm F Am G A

1. Conquistador of Mexico, the Zulu and the Navajo The Belgians in the Congo, short Memory. Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India, The deadline in South Africa, short Memory. The story of El Salvador, the silence of Hiroshima,

Sleep

Am Dm F C Em G

Transcribed by...Jonathan Hart. The verse has no guitar, but the bass line goes: (key of )

Sometimes

F Em A C D G

I know That the sunset empire shudders and shakes And I know There's a floodgate and a raging river I say

Species Deceases

B Am A Dm G C

01. Progress 02. Hercules 03. Blossom and Blood 04. Pictures

Stand In Line

Am D G Em C e

[Chorus] Everything's set, everything's fine You've just got to stand in line Everything's set, everything's fine You've just got to stand in line

Stars Of Warburton

F#m A E D G Em

[Verse 1] I, I was I was shaken down in a toy town He, he's out there You know it's Kennedy's shadow from White Cross to Michigan

Surf's up tonight

A E C#m F#m Eb B

Where-ever the wind blows When it blows over the sea The moon sitting high Waves will rise Water shapes

Tarkine

G F Am Dm C Fm

There's a red bridge in the mountains Where the Tarkine trees reauch multi-colored skies They cast shadows on the painted ground And to get there, well, I just close my eyes

Tell Me the Truth

F# A D F#7 E G

I believe we're crossing a great ravine Still yearning, half-way a stranger I believe in our multiplicity Still part-blind, no reason for anger I believe we pull up our roots and retreat

Terror Australia

F# B C# F#maj7 F#7 D#m

You can't think about the future still running from the past Tall tales lie in history and flames burn through the memories There's a country that is aching for a way to call its own You can feel the mansions shaking as the first real seed is sown

Time to Heal

C G Am D Em

Pas de barré

In the cities and the towns The word is coming down No more hurt, no more pain There has been a dragging of the chain Now there is a price we have to pay

Tin Legs And Tin Mines

G E D F# C#m Em

[Verse 1] I'm gonna wait for the moment to come I'm gonna wait till we all stop from running A E Cdim Boxed in like candles, polar bear pride

To The Ends Of The Earth

Bb C F Gm Dm A

[Verse 1] People of the world rise up We have been unconscious for too long Every creature drinks from the same cup Makes you want to dance and praise with song

Truganini

G Em A Dm D C

There's a road train going nowhere Roads are cut, lines are down We'll be staying at the Roma bar Till that monsoon passes on

Under The Overpass

F Am C G Em Dm

Oh the news will travel slowly Over broken glass And I bet you heard that story Under the overpass

Undercover

Em Bm D C E G

[Verse] Drive the Bowral road in autumn The gibs on fire like a red plum The burning colours beat the humdrum As time goes by

U.S. Forces

D C A B7 F# F#m

Bridge L. Ron Hubbard can save your life Super boy takes a plutonium wife In the shadows of ban the bomb we live

Warakurna

G D F#m A Bm C

There is enough There is enough for everyone There is enough There is enough, in Redfern as there is in Alice There is enough, this is not the Buckingham palace

We Are Not Afraid

Am Em B7 G D C

[Verse 1] There's a dark cloud on the horizon And it's coming closer every day No one, no one understands why its happening

We Resist

Em Bm D C Am G

Putting flowers into guns This is not the summer of love Throwing tea into the sea Indigenous apology

Wedding Cake Island

Am F C G D Dm

I found the chords for this song orignally on another web site and i owe credit to Morrison for submitting it. I have brought it to this web site and cleaned it up, and I have kept some parts, i have also made some changes. Thank you to Lindsay Morrison for Supply the back bone of it. This is one of Midnight oils great songs, and is quite To the fact of it has no words, only nice melodic tunes. Anyway, here it is.

What Goes On

F Am

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2.It's such a shame Such a useless shame That they have to play Such a hopeless game And it makes me shake

White Skin Black Heart

A F D C Bb Em

2.What are you gonna do now Now that it's spoken These words have a habit of not fading away Our memory's clear Conscience gets opened like a wound

Whoah

D F#m E C#m F# G#m

The lord is my temple God is by my side You pay the rates on that temple Build materials at the side He gives reasons