Xavier Rudd - Spirit bird

^FGive it time and wonder why do wh^Amat we can laugh and we ^Ccry and we sleep in your dust because we've seen this all bef^Gore. ^FCulture fades with tears and grace l^Ameaving us stunned hollow with shame we have ^Cseen this all, seen this all ^Gbefore.

^FMany tribes of a modern kind, doi^Amng brand new work, same spirit by side, ^Cjoining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, an^Gcestral twine.

^FMany tribes of a modern kind, doi^Amng brand new work, same spirit by side, ^Cjoining hearts and hand and ancestral twine, an^Gcestral twine.

Slow^Fly it fad^Ames…?^C??.. Slowly^G we fade Slow^Fly it faa^Amaaades……^C.. Slowly we f^Gade Em^Fanayo yo ^Amyo yo…….. Emanay^Co yo yo yo Emanayo yo yo ^Gyo…...^C Emanayo yo yo yo ^FEmanayo yo yo ^Amyo………??^F?.Emanayo yo yo yo ^CEmanayo yo yo ^Gyo…….. Emanayo yo^F yo yo

^FSpirit bird she creaks and ^Amgroans she knows she has, ^Fseen this all ^Cbefore she has, seen this all b^Gefore she has ^FSpirit bird she creaks and groans ^Amshe knows she has, seen thi^Fs all before s^Che has, seen this all b^Gefore she has

^FSlowly it^Am fades…??^C?.. Slowly ^Git fades Slow^Fly we^Am faaaaade…^C….. Slowly w^Ge faaa^Faaaaaaa^Amaaaade Slowly it faaa^Caaaaaa^Gaaaaaades^F Em^Fanayo yo yo ^Amyo…….. Emanayo yo ^Cyo yo Emanayo yo yo yo…..^G. Emanayo yo yo yo ^FEmanayo yo yo ^Amyo………….Emanayo ^Cyo yo yo ^CEmanayo yo yo yo…??^G?.. Emanayo yo yo yo

^FSoldier on soldier on my good c^Amountry man. Keep fighting for your ^Cculture, now keep fighting for your ^Glaaaaand. I know it’s been thousands ^Fof years and I feel your hurt and I know it’s wrong ^Amand you feel youve been chained and broken and^C burned and those beautiful old people those wise old ^Gsouls have been ground down for far too long by that ^Fspineless man that greedy man that ^Amheartless man deceiving man^C government hand taking blood and land ta^Gking blood and land and still they can but your ^Fdreaming and your warrior spirit lives ^Amon and it is so so so strong in the ^Cearth in the trees in the rocks in the w^Gater in your blood and in the air we

^FSoldier on soldier on my good ^Amcountry man, keep fighting for your chil^Cdren now keep fighting for your l^Gaaaaaaaaaaand^{F F}Slowly i^Amt faaaaaaaaaaaaaa^Cdes slowly it fa^Gaaaaaaaaaaaa^Fdes slowly it^Am faaaaaaaaaaaads ^Cslowly it ^Gfaaaaaaaaaaaaaades

Em^Fanayo yo yo ^Amyo…….. Emana^Fyo yo y^Co yo Emanayo yo ^Fyo yo…...^G Emanayo yo yo^F yo

^FGive it time and we wonder why ^Amdo what we can laugh and we cry ^Cand we sleep in your dust because weve ^Fseen it all befo^Gre