Oblivious chords by Christy Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice

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

C           Em
Back in the day we had men of esteem
Am            F
Risked their lives for a national dream
  C       Em        F
A century away and what was it all for

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

Verse 3:
    C      F        C  F
Tell me What will it take to make us angry ?
Am         F       C   G
Where is that line that can't be crossed
Am         F       C   F
We've been sold out taken in yet blindly
      Em     F     Em       F
We'll do it all again, we'll fuel that grave train,
Dm    G    C   G   C
Oblivious,,,, Oblivious.

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

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

            C   F            C   F
But the king of Island ready echoes the cries of the clown
   F          Em    F            Dm
Heaps pain on the sick and needy to soften the Ice-maiden's frown
  F          G
And we take it all lying down