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Minutes to Midnight  by Midnight Oil
from the album "Red Sails in the Sunset"

Am (x02210@1)  Everybody say God is a good man

Am (x02210@1)  Ah, clock on the world

AmDriving (x02210@1)a dumptruck up to the sun

Am (x02210@1)  A sigh in the human heart

Am (x02210@1)   G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)  I look at the clock on the wall

    Am (x02210@1)        G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)       GIt (320003@1)says three minutes to midnight

 Am (x02210@1)      G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)    GFaith (320003@1)is blind when we're so near

AmPhar (x02210@1)Lap floating in a jar

AmSeas (x02210@1)full of submarines, A.W.A.C.'s like flies

AmTruth (x02210@1)gets harder to define

Am (x02210@1)    Talking in tongues

Am (x02210@1)           G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)  But the dancer's hand   grips the rail

    Am (x02210@1)          G (320003@1)           DG
And fingers will blister on the 88's

Am (x02210@1)         G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)        GHope (320003@1)drains out the side of the page

          D (xx0232@1)    But ears can't hear

          F (133211@1)    What eyes don't see

                        Cm(?) (x3101x@1)    G/B (143121@7)    And you can't see me


Am - with solo: (played on a 12-string)
e-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|
B-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|
G-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|
D-|---/7-----5-------------------------------------7--------------|
A-|----------------7-----5---3-5-7-----------------7--------------|
E-|------------------------------------------------5--------------|


Am - with solo:
e-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-/7-----5------------------------------------------------------|
A-|--------------7-----5---3-5-7---555555530-3-----555555530-3----|
E-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Dwith (xx0232@1)solo:                  then Fwith (133211@1)solo:
e-|------------------------|   e-|------------------------|
B-|------------------------|   B-|------------------------|
G-|-/7-------4-----5-------|   G-|-/7-------4-----5-------|
D-|------------------------|   D-|------------------------|
A-|------------------------|   A-|------------------------|
E-|------------------------|   E-|------------------------|

Cm (?)    G/B

Am (x02210@1)  Everybody say God is a good man

Am (x02210@1)  Everybody say 1,2,3

Am (x02210@1)  Set up those gunsights in H.G.Wells' backyard

Am (x02210@1)  I.C.B.M.'s, S.S.20's, they lie so dormant, they got so many

Am (x02210@1)  G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)     G (320003@1)  Remember your childhood

Am (x02210@1)  G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)  G (320003@1)  Remember your journey

Am (x02210@1)      G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1)    GHope (320003@1)is what you say and do

          D (xx0232@1)    But ears can't hear

          F (133211@1)    What eyes don't see

                        Cm(?) (x3101x@1)     And you can't see me

Am (x02210@1)          D (xx0232@1)    But ears can't hear

          F (133211@1)    What eyes don't see

           D (xx0232@1)    But ears can't hear

                 F (133211@1)    What those eyes don't see


     And you can't see me

End

p.s. I'm still not sure if that's a Cminor or a Cmajor?!

Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net