Chords for Xavier Rudd - My Own Eyes (theMusic Sessions)

_ Yeah, [Ab] this is a song called My Own [Db] Eyes.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Since I was just a little boy
I've [Eb] been wondering why
[Bb] This great old culture we should be helping to [Db] heal
Is so often pushed aside
So many children taken away
[Ab] So much abuse and rape
[C]
When will it be high priority
To educate and [Ab] make some real change?
I've seen it in [Db] communities
So many that it's hard to believe
[Bb] Elders speaking wisdom
Far beyond what they [Db] choose to teach in history
[Ab] Young hearts just drinking it [Db] away
Understanding [Ab] why the culture was so ashamed
Waiting for a [Bbm] reason
What was [Gb] taken now still [Db] hasn't been [Ab] replaced
[Db] My own eyes
_ I saw [Ab] it with my own eyes
_ [Bb] Did I [Gb] did, yeah I did
That's why I [Db] know [Ab] this is true
Yeah, it's true _ _ _
_ [Db] _ I've seen it down in Sacred Tassie
Where they're cutting [Ab] all those big old trees
_ [Bb] 44 football [Gb] fields a day is what they clear
And it ain't that [Ab] hard to believe
But [Db] oh, for the economy
Rape and country that our children won't see
And even Peter [Bbm] Garrett is lying [Gb] down
When we thought that [Db] he might be the [Ab] key
Yeah, well, my own [Db] eyes
I saw it with [Ab] my own eyes
Did I [Gb] did, yeah I did
That's why [Db] I know this is [Ab] true
Yeah, it's [Db] true _ _
I've _ seen it up in Null and Boy
Bringing alcohol [Ab] to Sacred Sun
A [Bb] place still thriving with language [Gb] and culture
By now [Db] should just fucking be [Ab] preserved
People climbing [Db] up on Uluru
Bound those [Ab] fences are the people who know
_ [Bb] While Qantas is still [Gb] flying to Ayrs Rock
[Db] Despite years and [Ab] years of truth
Yeah, [Db] well, my own eyes
I saw [Ab] it with my own eyes
[Bb] Did I [Gb] did, yeah I did
[Db] That's why I know this [Ab] is true
Yeah, [Db] it's true _ _
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_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
[Ab] Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
[Bb] Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey
Hey [Gb]-ey-ey-oh-oh-oh
Hey [Db]-ey-ey-ey _ _ -ey
Hey-ey-ey-ey-ey
[Bb] Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ _ _ And I've seen it in the Kimberley
Part of the key [Ab] to human history
_ [Bb] See, there's rock art as [Gb] old as the great Ice Age
♪ [Db] Still there for the world [Abm] to see ♪
♪ Demolish [Db] it for industry ♪
♪ We'll create [Ab] so many jobs you'll see ♪
♪ [Bb] In a country so wealthy [Gb] still burning cold ♪
♪ [Db] For electricity, [Ab] parallel [Db] lines ♪
♪ I saw it [Abm] with my own eyes [Bb] ♪
♪ I did, I [Gb] did, yeah, I did, that's [Db] why I know this [Ab] is true ♪
♪ Yeah, it's [Db] true _ _ ♪
_ ♪ Same old thing we always hear ♪
♪ Lies to [Ab] fill the pockets of the rich ♪
♪ No respect [Bb] for culture, the animals, [Gb] the environment, ♪
♪ Our future, [Db] or just the air [Ab] we breathe [Db] ♪
♪ Mm, _ ah, [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] ooh, ah, [Db] ah, _ yeah, with our own eyes ♪
♪ We've seen [Ab] this with our own eyes ♪
[Bbm] ♪ For years we did, [Db] centuries we did, that's why we know this [Ab] is true ♪
♪ [Db] Yeah, with my own eyes, _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bbm] did I, [Db] did, yeah, I did, that's why I know this is true ♪
♪ Oh, this [Ab] is true, yeah, it's [Db] true ♪
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