Kev Carmody - Thou Shalt Not Steal

http://www.kevcarmody.com.au/news.html
Film clip for a song from Kev`s great 1989 album "Pillars Of Society".
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THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
In 1788 down Sydney Cove
The first boat-people land
Said sorry boys our gain's your loss
We gonna steal your land
And if you break our new British laws
For sure you're gonna hang
Or work your life like convicts
With chains on your neck and hands

CHORUS
They taught us
Oh Oh Black woman thou shalt not steal
Oh Oh Black man thou shalt not steal
We're gonna civilize
Your Black barbaric lives
And teach you how to kneel
But your history couldn't hide
The genocide
The hypocrisy to us was real
'cause your Jesus said
you're supposed to give the oppressed
a better deal
We say to you yes whiteman thou shalt not steal
Oh ya our land you'd better heal

Your science and technology Hey you can make a nuclear bomb
Development has increased the size to 3,000,000 megatons
But if you think that's progress
I suggest your reasoning is unsound
You shoulda found out long ago
You best keep it in the ground

Job and me and Jesus sittin'
Underneath the Indooroopilly bridge
Watchin' that blazin' sun go down
Behind the tall tree'd mountain ridge
The land's our heritage and spirit
Here the rightful culture's Black
and we sittin' here just wonderin'
When we get the land back

You talk of conservation
Keep the forest pristine green
Yet in 200 years your materialism
Has stripped the forests clean
A racist's a contradiction
That's understood by none
Mostly their left hand hold a bible
Their right hand holds a gun

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[TutuFerret]

I'm currently working on Kev's new website. Seeing the number of requests for chords in these comments alone, I'll see if I can get him to include the basic chords with the song lyrics if that will help... just give us a couple of months and hopefully the new site will be up and running.

[Mouldytone]

@TutuFerret Great news about Kev`s new website. I wish you all the best with it.

[ZAKEREE]

does anybodt have the chords for this song or tabs i am desperate

[Mouldytone]

@ZAKEREE Hello. Why don`t you contact Kev via his website. He`s a beautiful man and there`s a good chance you`ll get a reply I recon. I`ve put a link to his website in the info section under the clip.

Tony

[Andy10607]

This version of Thou Shalt Not Steal was recorded in 1989 with Mixed Relations and was released in 1993 as the B side to the single of Freedom. It is not the original version that appeared on 1988 Pillars Of Society. I produced this version so I know. I was there.

The clip was produced by Paul Fenech for ABC show Blackout.

All the best and keep up the good work, have not seen this clip for years.

[Mouldytone]

Thanks for taking the time to give the background on this particular version of this great song.

Tony

[wakeupAustralia]

No it's not too late.. you can support the wave of an ever growing culture of respect for indigenous people and reconciliation...to repent for your sins as a teenager you should teach your kids not to steal ...teach them to denounce the bullshit policies of the last 200 hundred years... there you go... adopt the true Australian culture....it's time we start a new ...join with the true spiritual custodians of this place ...

[Bethsheeba7]

Australia should listen more to this guy.

Fabulous song with hard hitting lyrics.

[chelseabaker98]

abo ppl need to get ova themselves it happened ages ago, you cant change the past, stop whining

[chelseabaker98]

lol

[OneStopHomestay]

And please, put up the lyrics so us teachers can use it in classrooms! thanks

[freakinstein69]

Racist asshole.

[santanocci]

hey Mouldy how about posting the rest of this album bro

[LordChoxy]

Anyways, I think he'll be dead soon. black mans liver can't handle the piss, ya know

[LordChoxy]

Whaeves, Kevs. We stole it fair and square. Try and get back boy, go on I dare you!

[waxonify]

@wakeupAustralia people are people from every culture.. the issue is the oligarchy not the ordinary man.. the native man in this country is a "latter" day slave.. you should think on that. 40,000 years of freedom and only 200 years of oppression. the ab(from) original sovereignty should be an awakening for all ... don't you think.. freedom for all men no matter what colour? what would mark mc murtie say.. and what is right has always been so.

[dm7ify]

@TutuFerret don't give em the chords, they can work it out for themselves. Like the old days ;)