Chords for Oils on Water - 6. Short Memory - Midnight Oil

It's just a multimedia cross-section, multilateral, every other sort of double development spectacular here this afternoon.
I tell you what, Sydney has never seen anything like this in its entire existence. _ _
With the possible exception of the look of the eyeballs of Captain Phillip and Co when they finally discovered fresh water and green veggies [Am] after greeting our original [N] inhabitants, but never mind.
Fort Garrison lives as a memory.
Keep the frogs out and stop them bombing [Gm] Muratta too, the rotten [G#] frogs.
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[G] _ _ [E] [G] Crested Arr of Mexico, _ [E] the Zulu [G] and the [E]
[C] Navajo, [E] the [G] Belgians in [D] the Congo, [E] short [G] of memory.
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_ [C] [E] Partition [G] of Arabia, _ the Raja in British India, _ [D] [E] the deadline [D] in South [E] Africa, [G] short of [Em] memory. _ _ _
[D] The [E] story [G] of El [Bm] Salvador, [C] _ [D] [E] the silence [G] of [Em] Hiroshima, _ [C] [E] the [G] sunshine of [E] Cambodia, [C] short of [B] memory.
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_ _ [B] [G] Short memory [D] must have a [E] short [G] _ _ [D] _
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memory.
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[F#m] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] sight of hotels by the Nile, the sight of motels at [D] Nesbrock, [E] with running [G] water [E] specially for [G] short [E] memory.
[G] _ [E] _ _ [C] [Em] A Scottish man, Afghanistan, _ [E] a once [G] darkened [D] and [E] nervous [G] land, [E] yet only [D] there to let [E] the [G] hands of [D] [Em] memory lie by bare.
The sacred smile, we all live right, yet go to sleep if need be, stop.
_ And in [D] the morning [E] say those tears that [C] short [Bm] memory are.
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [B] Short [G] memory must [D] have a [E] short [G] _ _ [D] memory.
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_ _ [E] _ [G] And [D] you read up his people, [B] see the same things happen again and again.
Repeat, repeat, short memory is all we're gonna be.
Short [G] [D] memory must have _ [E] a short [G] _ [D] _
memory.
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_ [N] _ When you won't believe what's happening now, _ _ _ you know that really large square one that looks like it's got a couple of [Em] buses in it?
[A] It's gonna come down and appear here very shortly.
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