Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining2 guitar tab

BAND: Midnight Oil

SONG: Blue Sky Mine

TABLATURE: Guitar

TABBED BY: Cool-TJ  cooltj11@hotmail.com

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Tune Guitar Down 1/2 Step

e=eb

B=Bb

G=Gb

D=Db

A=Ab

E=Eb

Opening Riff

eb-0-0---0---|-0-0---0-0---|-0-0---0-0-|-3-0-0---------|

Bb-0-0-3-0---|-0-0-3-0-0-3-|-0-0-3-0-0-|-3-0-0-3-------|

Gb-----2-----|-----2-----2-|-----2-----|-------2-------|

Db-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|

Ab-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|

Eb-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|

(Chords written on how they are played, not musically sounded)

Intro

(w/ Opening Riff)

Em  Dsus2   Em  G Em         Dsus2             G1 (Chorus Chord Pattern)

Hey hey hey hey, There'll be food on the table tonight  

(Continue Chorus Pattern)

Hey hey hey hey, There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

Verse 1:

D       Bm

My gut is wrenched out and is crunched up and broken

   D                        Bm

My life that is lived is no more than a token

       G2   A

Who'll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why

     D                           Bm

If I yell out at night, theres a reply of blue silence

    D                       Bm

The screen is no comfort, I cant speak my sentence    

     G2 A

They blew the lights at heavens gate and I dont know why

Chorus :

Em       Dsus2      Em       G1

And if I work all day in the blue sky mine

            Em          Dsus2 Em     G1

There'll be food on the table tonight

        Em          Dsus2       Em       G1

Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine

            Em        Dsus2  Em     G1

There'll be pay in my pocket tonight

Verse 2 :

The Candy Store paupers lie to the share holders

They're crossing their fingers as they pay the truth makers

The balance sheet is breaking up the sky

So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine

The sweat on my brow keeps feeding the engine

Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night

Bridge :

           Em                           A

And if the blue sky mining company wont come to the rescue

       Em                          A

If the sugar refining company wont save me

C  G6            D        A  Bm

Whos gonna save me?

   D        A  Bm

Whos gonna save me?

   D        A  Bm

Whos gonna save me?

Chorus :

But if I work all day in the blue sky mine

There'll be food on the table tonight

but I still walk up and down on the blue sky mine

There'll be pay on your pocket tonight

and some have sailed from a distant shore

and the company takes what the company wants

and theres nothing as precious, as a hole in the ground

Guitar Solo :

In Bm pentatonic over Verse Chords

Harmonica Solo:

Over first half of bridge chords

Outro :

Uses Bridge Chords

There... That's It!  

Good Luck with it ;)

Cool-TJ  (cooltj11@hotmail.com)

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