Oblivious chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: C majorC

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
C majorC      FF        C majorC  FF
What will it take to make us angry?
A minorAm      FF         C majorC  G+G
Where is the spark to light our flame?
      A minorAm    FF      C majorC   FF
We've been sold out taken in yet blindly
      G+G  FF           E minorEm  FF
We'll do it all again, we'll fuel that grave train,
DmDm       FF         DmDm
oblivious, it's like were oblivious
   C majorC                   E minorEm
We stick with the tribe and we Stand by our man
A minorAm             FF
Whipped into shame by this great master plan
C majorC            E minorEm          FF
Stuck in a spiral still fighting an old civil war

C majorC           E minorEm
Back in the day we had men of esteem
A minorAm            FF
Risked their lives for a national dream
  C majorC       E minorEm        FF
A augmentedA century away and what was it all for

Verse 2:
              C majorC
Hear their voices down the decades
FF          C majorC
Calling to me and to you
FF               E minorEm
All that they dreamed for and died for
     FF              DmDm
Has been squandered by scoundrels and fools
     FF          G+G
Is this really the best we can do.

Verse 3:
    C majorC      FF        C majorC  FF
Tell me What will it take to make us angry ?
A minorAm         FF       C majorC   G+G
Where is that line that can't be crossed
A minorAm         FF       C majorC   FF
We've been sold out taken in yet blindly
      E minorEm     FF     E minorEm       FF
We'll do it all again, we'll fuel that grave train,
DmDm    G+G    C majorC   G+G   C majorC
Oblivious,,,, Oblivious.

Verse 4:
   FF                      C majorC
So when they give all that you treasure away for a half nothing
   FF                      C majorC
Or banish your children to toil on a rich foreign shore
      FF                       E minorEm   A minorAm
When they prey on the weakest and bow to the ones that have plenty,,
   DmDm                     G+G
They know that you'll follow blindly as you did before.

C majorC           E minorEm          A minorAm            FF
Imagine a nation where people are free not slaves to some gombeenman economy
C majorC           E minorEm         FF   C majorC   FF
Sold into bondage one ill fated September night,
   C majorC               E minorEm
where smooth talking sleeveens don't spin and pretend
     A minorAm        FF          C majorC          E minorEm
Their promises not just a means to an end and justice isn't what's legal
       FF
It's what is right

            C majorC   FF            C majorC   FF
But the king of Island ready echoes the cries of the clown
   FF          E minorEm    FF            DmDm
Heaps pain on the sick and needy to soften the Ice-maiden's frown
  FF          G+G
And we take it all lying down