My Own Eyes chords by Rudd Xavier

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

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Since I was just a little boy, I’ve been wondering why

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This great old culture we should be helping to heal is so often pushed aside

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So many children taken away, so much abuse and rape

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When will it be high priority to educate and make some real change?

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I’ve seen it in communities, so many that it’s hard to believe

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Elders speaking wisdom, far beyond what they choose to teach in history

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And young hearts just drinking it away, understanding why their culture was so shamed

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Waiting for a reason, what was taken off still hasn’t been replaced

Chorus:

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My own eyes...

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I saw it with my own eyes

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I did, I did (yeah, I did)

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That’s why I know this is true (yeah, it’s true)


Verse 2:

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I’ve seen it down in sacred Tassie

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Where they’re cutting all those big old trees

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Forty-four football fields a day is what they clear and ain’t that hard to believe?

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But all for the economy, raping country that our children won’t see

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And even Peter Garrett is lying down when we thought that he might be the key

Chorus:

          D MajorD
Yeah, well, my own eyes...

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I saw it with my own eyes

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I did, I did (yeah, I did)

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That’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


Verse 3:

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I’ve seen it up in Nhulunbuy, bringing alcohol to sacred soil

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A majorA place still thriving with language and culture by now should just fucken’ be preserved

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People climbing up on Uluru, behind those fences are the people who know

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While Qantas is still flying to Ayers Rock, despite years and years of truth


Chorus:

          D MajorD
Yeah, well, my own eyes...

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I saw it with my own eyes

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I did, I did (yeah, I did)

       D MajorD      A augmentedA        D MajorD   A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA
That’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


Solo:

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Heyyy Ohhh


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Heyyy Ohhh

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Verse 4:

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And I’ve seen it in the Kimberley, part of the key to human history

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See there’s rock art as old as the great ice age, still there for the world to see

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Demolish it for industry. We’ll create so many jobs you see

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In a country so wealthy, still burning coal for electricity


Chrus:

          D MajorD
Yeah, well, my own eyes...

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I saw it with my own eyes

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I did, I did (yeah, I did)

       D MajorD      A augmentedA        D MajorD   A augmentedA D MajorD
That’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


Verse 5:

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Same old things we always hear

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Lies to fill the pockets of the rich

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No respect for culture, the animals, the environment

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Our future or just the air we breathe

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Mmmmmmmm aaaaaaaa nananaa nananaaa oooooo aaaaaaaa


Chorus:

       D MajorD
Yeah, our own eyes...

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We’ve seen this with our own eyes

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For years we did, for centuries we did

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That’s why we know this is true

          D MajorD
Yeah, well, my own eyes...

         A augmentedA
I saw it with my own eyes

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I did, I did (yeah, I did)

       D MajorD      A augmentedA        D MajorD
That’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)