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Kuiama by Electric Light Orchestra

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🎸 Verse 1:
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My, my Kuiama, she came in the morning
    E
She smiled but the tears on her little face
           E
Showed the pain that had been in that far-off place
   F#m A           E
So sad, treated so bad



🎸 Verse 2:
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My, my Kuiama, don't break your heart tryin'
   E
To say how your ma and your pa passed away
         E
And they left you to wander the ruin and decay
     F#m  A                E
Real mean, that bullet machine

🎸 Verse 3:
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See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles
     E
Is a long, long way and you're here today
        E
And you won't go back so you might say
   F#m A            E
"Hello, how do you do "


🎸 Verse 4:
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Kuia, stop your cryin', there's no bombs a-fallin'
   E
No horsemen in the night a-ridin'
E                                       F#m   A
Through your dreams and tearing at your life
          E
Baby, goodnight


🎸 Bridge: 
C#m                      B
No more silver rain will hit your ground
            G#
And no more guns will sound
        A
No more life be drowned
C#m                         B
No more trenches where the soldiers lie
            G#
And no more people die
             A
Beneath that big black sky

🎸 Verse 5:
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Wake up
Kuiama
I got somethin' to tell you
     E
It's just that I mean, well, that is to say
         E
That I'm trying to explain but I'll start again
    F#m A          E
For you
I must be true


🎸 Verse 6:
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Kuia, in this country, they got rules with no reason
     E
They teach you to kill and they send you away
          E
With your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay
   F#m  A              E
So cool, that no mercy tool


🎸 Verse 7:
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Kuia, please believe me
I just couldn't help myself
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I wanted to run but they gave me a gun
         E                                   F#m   A
And they told me the duty I owed to my fatherland
          E
I made my stand


🎸 Verse 8:
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Kuia
I just shot them
I just blew their heads open
      E
And I heard them scream in their agony
   E
Kuiama, she waits there for me
F#m      A            E
True blue, you saw it through