Chords for Paul Kelly, A.B. Original, Dan Sultan pay tribute to Archie Roach 'Took the Children Away' #APRAs

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_ _ _ _ _ All right.
[G] _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
[C] _ _ ♪ The _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ story's right, the story's true ♪
_ ♪ I would not tell lies to you ♪
[C] _ _ _
♪ Promises are decayed _ ♪
[G] ♪ How they frenzed us in like sheep ♪
_ ♪ They said to us, come take our hand ♪
♪ Set us up on a mission land _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
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And they took [G] the children away, _ took the children away. _ _
_ _ _ _ They [C] took the children away.
_ _ _ _ [G] They would snatch from their [D] mother's breast,
and [G] it would force _ _ _ _ _ _ them away. _ _ _ _ _
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Ladies and gentlemen, _ _ _ [G] stand up, _ _ watch your urge. Check. _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Check.
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Check.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G]
I'm Fitzroy with the Slasbee.
I'm Wayne Gane [A] in [C] 93.
I'm Muntin, I'm Captain.
Man that fire inside of [G] me.
I'm Adam Goods and Adam should be applauded when he stands [D] up.
You can look to watch from that time stop.
I'm Patti Mills with the live [G] shot of good.
I'm Archie, I'm everything that they ask [C] me.
I'm everything that they can't be.
I'm a dead hot, hot [G] bitch.
I'm Choco, I'm Archie.
I'm Choco Lane, I'm Archie.
The children [C] came back.
[Em] I'm [G] Archie.
Back when the house was strong, back when they all swung.
The children came back. _ _ _
I'm Doc Nickers, I'm Jimmy Little with the Royal Tidal Fung.
[C] I'm the world champion in 68.
Boy I'm Lionel Rose.
[G] I'm William Cooper, I take the stand when no one even knows.
[D] I'm the walker, I'm the slumberer.
Those children coming home.
[G] Boy I'm Gormel, I'm Archie.
I'm everything that they ask [C] me.
I'm everything that you can't be.
I'm a dead hot, hot [G] bitch.
The children came back.
I'm Gormel, I'm [C] Archie.
The children came back.
I'm Gormel, I'm [G] Archie.
Back when the house [D] was strong, back when they all [G] swung.
The children came back.
_ _ Jump that beat, take it on, motherfucker.
Understand, pills on cover.
[C] Hook that bricks on four bricks.
I'm Maka Ringo with all [G] them kids.
I'm Maka B.
Everybody love me.
Ain't nothing below me.
Ain't nothing [D] popping on me.
Copping at the empty sky, three of them.
First rice, second [G] thots.
Now Mr.
Evans, he's thinking better.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] I'm Gormel, I'm Archie.
I'm everything that you can't [D] be.
I'm everything that you ask me.
I'm a dead hot, hot [G] bitch.
Let's go.
The children came back.
_ _ [C]
The children came back.
I'm Gormel, I'm [G] Archie.
Back when they [D] understand, back when they mother [G] swayed.
The children came back.
Table 22.
How much?
The children came back.
How much?
[C]
The children came back.
Chop on that, how much?
[G]
Back [D] where the house was from,
back where they all belonged.
[G] The children came back. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Ah, [C] _
ah.
Ah, _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ ah. Ah, ah.
Well, the same is to show.
_ I'm the one who should be [G] lying [Am] low.
So, now that
I've turned my back,
I heard the train coming.
[G] Stay right on [F] that track.
In the [C] middle,
in the middle,
[Em] _ in the middle of a dream.
[G] _ [Am] I lost [Em] my shit,
I [F] bought my [G] ring.
I've [A] done all that dumb thing.
[Am] Yeah, that dumb thing.
It's just going out to my brothers down [E] there in Dovetail.
Feeling for that [Am] disaster, that damn
car's a damn, it's not jail.
Thinking we getting that health care high.
Thinking we getting that welfare high.
Think about if that was your song.
Now think about sending some help there.
What's dumber than that, mate?
What's dumber [D] than dressing a black [Am] face?
What's dumber than doing it, blowing the hoods,
and don't [G] even work to make that [F] change?
Let's go.
In the middle, [C] _ in the [Em] middle,
in the middle [F] of a dream.
[Am] I lost [Em] my shit,
[F] I bought my [G] ring.
I've done [D] all that [Am] dumb thing. _ _ _
We've got
islands, but it's ones
who's seeking asylum.
We've got silence, but it's ones who
thought they could find me.
If you're complacent, put the words
of a racist. _ _
_ That's what's beating your nation.
Send me in the clouds.
That black face
that's locking up brothers, that's locking up
that ain't leaving [A] the station.
The place [F] is changing.
In the [C] middle,
in the [Em] middle,
in the middle of a [G] dream.
[Am] I lost [Em] my shit,
I [F] bought my ring.
[G] I've [D] done all
[Am] that dumb thing.
Ladies and [F] gentlemen, the keys, the drums,
[C] six, four.
_ [Em] On the guitar, my brother,
[F] Dan Sultan.
[G] _ _ [Em] And to my right, the [F] magnificent
Mr.
[C] Paul Kelly.
[G] _ _ [Am] Let's go. _
Yeah, them dumb
bitch, about to look for
peace before they find it.
They holding this back from closing their gap.
But even [D] them close-minded [Am] see
the surprise is there.
Even going for them sirens blare.
I'm from a kind of [G] fair.
When you find a [Am] fair_
To the ones who _ _ live on a mission.
To the ones that's killed by the system.
By the [G] ones that's been to a system.
[Am] I can hand you the policeman.
He's got the policeman.
They killing us, what is the number?
I [E] need to release [F] them.
Let's go.
_ [C] _ In the middle,
[Em] _ in the middle of a [A] dream.
[Am] I lost [Em] my shit,
I bought [C] my ring.
[G] I've [D] done all
[Am] that dumb thing.
Mr.
John Bartlett.
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
My brother, Dan Sultan.
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[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [F] _ In the middle,
[C] _
in the [Em] middle,
in the middle of [F] a dream.
[Am] I lost [Em] my shit,
[F] I bought [C] my [G] ring.
[D] I've done all
[Am] that dumb thing. _
_ [A] Yes, I melted
[Em] wax to fix my [F] wing.
[C] _ _ I've done all
I thought that I just had to [G] sing.
_ _ [Em] I threw my hat [D] into the ring. _ _ _ _ _ _
I've done all
that dumb thing.
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