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 we
     C                                 G
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
joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.

F                                   Am
Many tribes of a modern kind, doing brand new work, same spirit by side,
         C                                       G
joining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, ancestral twine.

    F        Am    C          G  
Slowly it fades…….. Slowly we fade
    F        Am          C        G  
Slowly it faaaaades…….. Slowly we fade
F                   Am          
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
C                   G       
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
F                   Am          
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
C                   G       
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
 
F                                       Am                           C    
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
                    G                  
has, seen this all before she has
F                                       Am                            C
Spirit bird she creaks and groans she knows she has, seen this all before she
                      G                   
has, seen this all before she has

F        Am         C          G  
Slowly it fades…….. Slowly it fades
    F    Am          C             G     F      Am
Slowly we faaaaade…….. Slowly we faaaaaaaaaaaaaade
              C     G        
Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaaades
  F                   Am          
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
  C                   G       
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo
  F                   Am          
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
  C                   G       
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo

F                              Am                                 C          
Soldier on soldier on my good country man. Keep fighting for your culture now,
                           G
keep fighting for your laaaaand.
                               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 youve 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                            C    
spineless man that greedy man that heartless man deceiving man government hand
                               G
taking blood and land taking blood and land and still they can but your
F                                      Am                           C
dreaming and your warrior spirit lives on and it is so so so strong in the
                                        G          
earth in the trees in the rocks in the water in your blood and in the air we

breath

F                             Am                                   C 
Soldier on soldier on my good country man, keep fighting for your children
                            G            F
now keep fighting for your laaaaaaaaaaand
F       Am               C               G           F            Am
Slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaades slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaades
C         G
slowly it faaaaaaaaaaaaaades

  F                   Am          
Emanayo yo yo yo…….. Emanayo yo yo yo
  C                   G       
Emanayo yo yo yo…... Emanayo yo yo yo

F                              Am                              C
Give it time and we wonder why do what we can laugh and we cry and we sleep
                          F               G
in your dust because weve seen it all before