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Black Tears

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D5 C5 G5 D5
D5Fragile little thing go lC5ightly on the wing
Don't be G5put off your game
If trD5oubled wind should blow you off your way
NaD5tural love and trust
Have doC5wned their tools and struck
The natG5ion's heart it rusts is no suprise
and seems D5so appropriate today
  EmBlack tFears on a red rCocCk
  D5Fall right thEmrough and they F#5dry Gup
                               C   G  F#/ G   Em  Dsus4  
How could it fail to grab your attention
Black tFearCs on a red rGock
  D#These Ftrees bear a strange fGruit
  Harvesting lD#ies and poisoned bFlossoms of the trGuth
                                                 C   G  F#/ G   Em  Dsus4  
  There's blood on all our hands and blood on our boots
And black tFeaCrs on a red rGock
An Disland watch house bed
A blCack man's lying deadG  D  
An isDland watch house bed
A blaCck man's lying deadG  D  

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Black Tears

by Powderfinger

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

F#5

Dsus4

D5 C5 G5 D5

D5 C5

Fragile little thing go lightly on the wing

Don't be put off your game

If troubled wind should blow you off your way

Natural love and trust

Have downed their tools and struck

The nation's heart it rusts is no suprise

and seems so appropriate today

Em F C C

Black tears on a red rock

D5 Em F#5 G

Fall right through and they dry up

C G F# G Em Dsus4

How could it fail to grab your attention

F C G

Black tears on a red rock

D# F G

These trees bear a strange fruit

D# F G

Harvesting lies and poisoned blossoms of the truth

C G F# G Em Dsus4

There's blood on all our hands and blood on our boots

F C G

And black tears on a red rock

An island watch house bed

C G D

A black man's lying dead

An island watch house bed

C G D

A black man's lying dead

About Black Tears Chords by Powderfinger

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