BAND: Midnight Oil SONG: Blue Sky Mine TABLATURE: Guitar TABBED BY: Cool-TJ cooltj11@hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tune Guitar Down 1/2 Step E=Eb B=Bb G=F# D=C# 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)