The Futures Exchange chords by Judy Small

Chords with lyrics

Artist: Judy Small

Song: The Futures Exchange

Album: One Voice In The Crowd (1985)


[Verse]


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It rises in the sunlight, Silver domes upon our sand


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encircled by the wire like a blight upon our land

      D MajorD
and to the people of the dreaming, who's sacred land this is


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must wonder who this uncle Sam could be, and to think that it could be his.


[chorus]


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And for the silver that these men have paid, who think they own this land

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it is the silver of Iscariot, the silver of the dammed

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it is part of the accounting in which we all must pay

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for trading in our children's futures, for false promises today


[Verse]

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Because this land belongs to dreaming, and the people are its own

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they have lived there fifty thousand years, this desert it's their home

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and the woman go a weeping, and a wailing for it's loss

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and I join them in their grieving , and in the counting of the cost.

[chorus]

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And for the silver that these men have paid, who think they own this land

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it is the silver of Iscariot, the silver of the dammed

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it is part of the accounting in which we all must pay

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for trading in our children's futures, for false promises today


[verse]
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And the mines from which their poison comes sits cold beneath our stars

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for the landscapes they have ravaged will forever bear the scars

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Roxby Ranger Jabaluka will be words that conjure shame

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because the spark they help to kindle, It will ignite the devils flames


[chorus]

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And for the silver that these men have paid, who think they own this land

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it is the silver of Iscariot, the silver of the dammed

    D MajorD             G+G         A augmentedA
it is part of the accounting in which we all must pay

      D MajorD         B minorBm        G+G  A augmentedA  D MajorD
for trading in our children's futures, for false promises today