Key: F# minor
Intro 1
C#m
F#m
G#m
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C#m
F#m
G#m
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Verse 1
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That thing, I walk by the river
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C#m
Remembering the days of young
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My mum, the food she delivered
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C#m
Our bellies were so full and fun
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We heard a plane in the air flying up above
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C#m
The enemy from overseas (The sea)
I grabbed my family
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by the hands and we ran away
G#m
C#m
We're running from the enemy
Chorus 1
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F#m
No roots, no roots, no culture
G#m
C#m
We're running from the enemy
F#m
No roots, no roots, no culture
G#m
C#m
I'm hiding with my family
Verse 2
C#m
Insidе a room we would hide
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when thе sun was gone
G#m
C#m
So quiet as we hid through the night
I heard a man through
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the window on the telephone
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They're searching for my family and I
I take a chance with the gun
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holding in my hand
G#m
C#m
Behind it, we would seek through the night
I pulled the trigger to his head,
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now his life is gone
G#m
C#m
My family we are free for the night
Chorus 2
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F#m
Say, no roots, no roots, no culture
G#m
C#m
We're hiding in the thick of the night
F#m
No roots, no roots, no culture
G#m
C#m
My family will fight for our lives
Bridge 1
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F#m
There's no price they can put on our name
G#m
C#m
My hearts fighting in the game
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They tried to take my apart
G#m
C#m
It's a war that you don't want to start
Verse 3
C#m
And now the tables
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have turned on the enemy
G#m
C#m
Almighty God has answered my cries
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Sometimes a friend is also a frenemy
G#m
They're smiling
C#m
with them lying eyes
Just like in life, there's a war
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everywhere around
G#m
C#m
And you can be the shining light
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They took their bombs, their guns, the enemy
G#m
C#m
They're running in the dead of the night
Chorus 3
C#m
F#m
Our roots, our roots, our culture
G#m
C#m
No one can take that feeling from me
F#m
Our roots, our roots, our culture
G#m
C#m
The power of the totara tree, yeah
F#m
Our roots, our roots, our culture
G#m
C#m
No one can take that feeling from me
F#m
Our roots, our roots, our culture
G#m
C#m
The power of the totara tree,
Outro 1
C#m
F#m
G#m
C#m
C#m
F#m
G#m
C#m
[Repeat and fade]
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