Chords for Iconic Songs with Archie Roach - Live at WOMAdelaide 2011

_ An uncle of mine, Uncle Banjo Clark, _ [C#] he said,
hey, you write songs, don't you, boy?
_ I go, yeah, hunk. _
He said, why don't you [Am] write a song about when you was, you know,
when you was taken, taken away?
_ And he's dropped me in me tracks.
I said, oh, my God, why would I want to write about that, revisit that?
Besides, I don't remember much about it.
I was just about three or something,
so I can't remember much about that at all.
I don't know why. _
He looked at me, you know, square in the eyes and said, yeah, but I do. _
_ And I think that's one of the reasons,
that's just one reason why I wrote that song.
It doesn't matter how your history's been,
good or bad or sad things in your history,
you've got to tell it all, you know?
And it has a way of helping to ease the pain.
_ Every time I sing this song, people say,
don't you get sick of singing that song?
I say, nah. _
You see, every time I sing it, I let a little bit of it go. _
_ [C] So that's the power of music.
_ _ [E] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ _ Story like this story's true
_ _ I will not tell lies to you like [C] this
Promise says it did not do
_ [G] _ Now they've drenched us in like sheep
_ _ Said to us, come take our hand _
_ Set us up on mission land
[C] They taught us to read, write and pray
[D] _ And they took children [G] away
Children away
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
Snatched from our [D] mother's breast
Said this is for [G] the best
Took them away _ _ _ _
Welfare and the policemen
_ Well, they said you've got to understand
[C] All we're gonna give to them
What you can't give to me
_ [G] _ Teach them how to really live
_ _ Teach them how to live, they said
_ _ Humiliated
Them instead [C] they taught them that
And taught them this
_ [D] _ Now they're taught to prejudice
When they [G] took them children _ away
_ _ _ [C] Children away _
_ _ _ [G] Snatched from their [D] mother's breast
Said this is for [G] the best
Took them away _
_ _ _ One dark day on Tramlin Hill
_ Well, they come and did not
Didn't give a damn
[C] Oh, my mother cried
Go get their dad
Well, they said _ [G] he came running
Fighting me
_ _ Mother's tears were falling down
And my dad shaved up
And he stood his ground
And [C] he said, touch my kids
Well, you've got to fight me _
[D] _ Then they took from our family
[G] _
Took us away _ _ _
[C] They took us away
_ _ _ [G]
Breaking our [D] mother's heart
Tearing us [G] all apart
Took us away
_ _ Hey _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Told us what to do and say
_ So they tore us up
These white man's ways [C] of life
Then they spilt us up again
_ _ [G] Gave us gifts to ease the pain
_ _ Sent us off to the foster home
And as we grew up
Oh, we felt alone
As we [C] were acting white
And feeling black
_ _ [D] _ One sweet day
The [E] children came [G] back
The children came back _
Yeah, yeah, [C] those children came back _
_ _ [G] Back where their hearts [D] grow strong
Back where they [G] all belong
Children came back _
Yeah, the children came back _
[C] Yeah, all those children came back _
_ [G] Back where they understand
[D] Back to their mother's land
[G] The children came back _ _
Back to their mother
Back _ _ to [C] their father
_ _ _ Back [G] to their sister
_ _ _ Back [D] to their brother
_ _ _ Back [G] to their people
_ _ _ Back [C] to their land
_ While the children [G]
came back
_ [C] _ Yeah, the children [G]
came back
_ [C] _ _ The children [G]
came back
_ [C] _ _ _ Yes, I [G] came back _ _ _ _ _
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