There are only 4 chords in this song, but many nuances: simple chords to let ring, arpeggios (we will add the tab soon), and strumming patterns. This is an opportunity to work on the interpretation of a song. If you sing while playing, be careful to keep the rhythm, and pay attention to the sync. with the arpeggios. It is also possible to play the song with a capo on fret 5, if you just want to play open chords (C, Em, G, D), perfect for beginners!
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Chords (4)
How to read and play chords for beginners Tab
How to read a TabStick a Capo on
5Intro:
(arpeggios:)
[
F][
Am][
C][
G] x3
(let ring:)
F Am
Give it time and wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry
C G
And we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before
F Am
Culture fades with tears and grace leaving us stunned hollow with shame
C G
We have seen this all, seen this all before
F Am |
Many tribes of a modern kind doing brand new work, same spirit by side |
C G | x2
Joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine |
(arpeggios:)
F Am |
Slowly it fades |
C G | x2
Slowly we fade |
(let ring:)
F Am |
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
C G | x2
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
F Am |
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, |
C G | x2
Seen this all before she has, seen this all before she has |
(arpeggios:)
F Am
Slowly it fades
C G
Slowly we fade
F Am
Slowly it fades
C G> let ring
Slowly we fade___________
(strum:)
[F][Am]
C G
Slowly we fade__________
F Am |
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
C G | x2
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
F Am
Soldier on, soldier on my good country man
C G
Keep fighting for your culture now, keep fighting for your land
F Am
I know it’s been thousands of years and I feel your hurt and I know it’s wrong
C
And you feel you've been chained and broken and burned and those beautiful old
G
people those wise old souls have been ground down for far too long by that
F Am
spineless man, that greedy man, that heartless man, deceiving man
C G
That government hand taking blood and land taking blood and land and still they can
F Am
But your dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on
C G
and it is so so so strong in the earth in the trees in the rocks in the water in your blood and in the air we breath
F Am
Soldier on, soldier on my good country man
C G
keep fighting for your children, now keep fighting for your land______
F Am
Slowly it fa_______________des
C G
Slowly we fa_______________de
F Am
Slowly it fa_______________des
C G>let ring
Slowly we fa_______________de
(let ring:)
F Am |
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
C G | x2
Emanayo yo yo yo... Emanayo yo yo yo |
(arpeggios:)
[F][Am][C][G]
F Am
give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry
C
and we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all before...
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