Xavier Rudd – My Own Eyes chords

[Verse 1]
D                               ASince I was just a little boy, I’ve been wondering why
Bm                                                       GThis great old culture we should be helping to heal is so often pushed aside
D                            ASo many children taken away, so much abuse and rape
Bm                                GWhen will it be high priority to educate and make some real change?
                D                              AI’ve seen it in communities, so many that it’s hard to believe
              Bm            G                                    D   AElders speaking wisdom, far beyond what they choose to teach in history
                      D                                         AAnd young hearts just drinking it away, understanding why their culture was so shamed
              Bm               G                D          AWaiting for a reason, what was taken off still hasn’t been replaced


[Chorus]
       DMy own eyes...
                 AI saw it with my own eyes
Bm             GI did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D             A                D      A DThat’s why I know this is true (yeah, it’s true)


[Verse 2]
A                    DI’ve seen it down in sacred Tassie
                                AWhere they’re cutting all those big old trees
        Bm                   G                                     D               AForty-four football fields a day is what they clear and ain’t that hard to believe?
                D                                ABut all for the economy, raping country that our children won’t see
               Bm               G                         D               AAnd even Peter Garrett is lying down when we thought that he might be the key


[Chorus]
                   DYeah, well, my own eyes...
                 AI saw it with my own eyes
Bm            GI did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A                D      A DThat’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


[Verse 3]
A                  D                              AI’ve seen it up in Nhulunbuy, bringing alcohol to sacred soil
               Bm                         G                     D              AA place still thriving with language and culture by now should just fucken’ be preserved
                      D                                  APeople climbing up on Uluru, behind those fences are the people who know
       Bm                        G                    D                 AWhile Qantas is still flying to Ayers Rock, despite years and years of truth


[Chorus]
                   DYeah, well, my own eyes...
                 AI saw it with my own eyes
Bm            GI did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A                D      A D AThat’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


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[Verse 4]
A                        D                                   AAnd I’ve seen it in the Kimberley, part of the key to human history
            Bm                     G                    D                      ASee there’s rock art as old as the great ice age, still there for the world to see
                D                              ADemolish it for industry. We’ll create so many jobs you see
      Bm                       G                D          AIn a country so wealthy, still burning coal for electricity


[Chrus]
                   DYeah, well, my own eyes...
                 AI saw it with my own eyes
Bm            GI did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A                D      A DThat’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)


[Verse 5]
A                  DSame old things we always hear
                 ALies to fill the pockets of the rich
               Bm                        GNo respect for culture, the animals, the environment
              D               AOur future or just the air we breathe
D              A                   Bm        GMmmmmmmm aaaaaaaa nananaa nananaaa oooooo aaaaaaaa


[Chorus]
              DYeah, our own eyes...
                         AWe’ve seen this with our own eyes
    Bm                GFor years we did, for centuries we did
       D                   AThat’s why we know this is true
                   DYeah, well, my own eyes...
                 AI saw it with my own eyes
Bm            GI did, I did (yeah, I did)
             D            A                DThat’s why I know this is true (yeah, it's true)