Gadigal Land tab by Midnight Oil

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
A G D
A G D
A G D
G  D
A G D
A G D
G  D
G  D

Chorus:
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A      G     D      G      D
Welcome to Gadigal country
A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A      G    D   G    D
Do you know our story?
A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land

Verse 1:
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Don’t you bring your poison
A                     G  D
Don’t you bring your grog
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Don’t you bring your smallpox
A                 G  D
Sure to kill our mob
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Don’t you bring your justice
A                     G   D
Don’t you bring your gaols
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Don’t you bring your armies
A                G    D
Troopers on our trails


Chorus:
   A   G  D   A        G  D
So welcome to Gadigal land
A       G     D    G      D
Welcome to Gadigal country
A   G  D   A        G  D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A        G     D     G    D
Have you heard our history?
A   G  D    A      G   D   G  D  G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land


Verse 2:
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We don’t need your convicts
A                     G   D
We don’t need your thieves
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We don’t need your squatters
A             G   D
Or your emancipees
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Don’t you dam our rivers
A                   G   D
Don’t you fell our trees
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Don’t you carve our wilderness
A                  G   D
Don’t you net our seas


Bridge:
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In the land where time stands still
       A
In the land that’s in a spell
Bsus2                                 G
Every day since the day you came is a day of rage
       G
It’s a day of rage


Chorus:
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
A     G    D G     D
Wenyo wenyo  wenyo!
A   G  D   A        G  D
Welcome to Gadigal land
G      D    G  D
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!


Interlude:
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Mudjaru ngaya wunyang
E
Ngandu bayabawai….ngara
E
Ngarawa darayawai, darimi
E
Garamawaimi baya mudjin, wa?
E
Birrongaingun ngarawan
E
Always will be Gadigal land

E
It’s unfolding you’re unloading
E                    A
Your high and mighty prison ships


Break:
A G D
A G D
A G D
G  D
A G D
A G D
G  D
G  D
G  D


Verse 3:
       A
We can live without your muskets
       A                  G  D
We can live without your guns
       A
We can live without your strychnine
       A                  G  D
We can live without your rum
       A
We can live without your gallows
       A                 G   D
We can do without your chains
       A
We can do without the massacres
       A            G  D
The sorrow and the pain


Chorus:
   A   G  D   A        G  D
So welcome to Gadigal land
A     G    D      G  D
Wenyo wenyo wenyo!
A   G   D   A        G   D
Welcome to Wiradjuri land
G   D             G    D
Welcome to Yorta Yorta land
A   G  D   A        G    D
Welcome to Arrernte land
A   G  D    G      D
Welcome to Mirning land
A   G  D      A     G   D
Welcome to Gurindji land


Outro:
G  D  G  D
G  D              C  G
 All of the lands
A
Welcome!