The Dead Heart

Midnight Oil

  • A
  • A/C#
  • B5
  • Bm
  • D
  • E
  • F#m
  • G
  • G#m
    4
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Key:
Intro: Riff 1
E|------------------|------------- B|---------2--3--2--|------------- G|-----4------------|--4----2-2--- D|--4---------------|------------- A|------------------|------------- E|------------------|------------- E|-| |--0--| B|-| |--0--| G|-| 3x with |--4--| in the D|-| |--4--| end A|-| |--2--| E|-| |-----|
Repeat "riff 1" 2X (in the second time guitar two ends with Bm) follow by guitar 1 playing 1X:
Bm E A Bm E A Bm Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
E A Bm Bm And guitar 2 playing:
Bm E A Bm E A Bm Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
E A F#m Bm
B5 We don't serve your country Don't serve your king Know your custom don't speak your tongue White man came took everyone Riff 2
E|--0--|------------------|------- B|--0--|---------2--3--2--|------- G|--4--|-----4------------|--4---- D|--4--|--4---------------|------- A|--2--|------------------|------- E|-----|------------------|------- E|-------| B|-------| G|2-2----| 2x D|-------| A|-------| E|-------|
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B5 We don't serve your country Don't serve your king White man listen to the songs we sing White man came took everything
B5 We dont serve your country Dont serve your king White man listen to the songs we sing White man came took everything Riff 2
Bm A G We carry in our hearts the true country
F#m D A/C# And that cannot be stolen
Bm A We follow in the steps of our
G ancestry
F#m A D A/C# And that cannot be broken Riff 2 Repeat the first verse Riff 2 Riff 2
B5 We don't need protection Don't need your land Keep your promise on where we stand We will listen we'll understand Riff 2 Chorus (twice) with B5 in the end Riff 1 Till the end guitar 1 play:
Bm E A Bm E A Bm
E A Bm Bm And guitar 2 play:
G#m F#m G#m F#m
G#m F#m Bm Mining companies, pastoral companies, Uranium companies, Collected companies Got more right than people, Got more say than people Forty thousand years can make a difference to the state of things The dead heart lives here
Song details

Composition: Jim Moginie, Peter Garrett, and Rob Hirst

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