• Song:

    Drums Of Heaven

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    Earth And Sun And Moon

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

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Drums of Heaven  by Midnight Oil
from the album "Earth and Sun and Moon"


INTRO:
hard to tab, but it's something like this:

e-|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
B-|-2---2---2---3---3---3---5---5---5---7---7---7---9---9---10--|
G-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------|

e-|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
B-|-2---2---2---3---3---3---5---5---5---7---7---7---10--10--9---|
G-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------|

e-|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|
B-|-2---2---2---3---3---3---5---5---5---7---7---7---9---9---10--|
G-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------|

e-|-0---0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0---0---0---0---|
B-|-9---10--9---10------9---9---9-------7---7---9---7---5---5---|
G-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------------------|


LYRICS:

INTRO

D Dmaj7 D

        Eby (022100@1)the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds

      E (022100@1)                                     D (xx0232@1)name="chord_xx0222@1">Dmaj7 Dand (xx0232@1)tablets of strangelove are shattered and bruised

       Eby (022100@1)the time the oleander is falling from bloom

      E (022100@1)                            D (xx0232@1)name="chord_xx0222@1">Dmaj7 Dand (xx0232@1)tears of the crocodile water the sun

         C#m (x13321@4)            B (x2444x@1) by the time you make up your mind

C#m (x13321@4)         A (x02220@1) if ever you do

C#m (x13321@4) I hear the drums of heaven too

         C#m (x13321@4)            B (x2444x@1) by the time you make up your mind

E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1) if ever you do

A (x02220@1)           B (x2444x@1)            C#m (x13321@4) I hear the drums of heaven too


E (022100@1)B (x2444x@1)    G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)    A (x02220@1)E (022100@1)    G (320003@1)INTRO

       Eby (022100@1)the time paradise alley is littered with rust

        E (022100@1)                           D (xx0232@1)name="chord_xx0222@1">Dmaj7 Dand (xx0232@1)the arc of dayglo is curtained in gloom

       Eby (022100@1)the time kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust

        E (022100@1)                             D (xx0232@1)name="chord_xx0222@1">Dmaj7 Dand (xx0232@1)the empires and all of the emirated burn

         C#m (x13321@4)            B (x2444x@1) by the time you make up your mind

C#m (x13321@4)         A (x02220@1) if ever you do

C#m (x13321@4) I hear the drums of heaven too

         C#m (x13321@4)            B (x2444x@1) by the time you make up your mind

E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1) remember this too

A (x02220@1)           B (x2444x@1)            C#m (x13321@4) I hear the drums of heaven too

A (x02220@1)           B (x2444x@1)            C#m (x13321@4) I hear the drums of heaven too

E (022100@1)B (x2444x@1)     ice on the mountain

G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)    wind and the dust storm

A (x02220@1)E (022100@1)   sails in the desert

G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)   it's old and exploding

E (022100@1)B (x2444x@1)   seers and the prophets

G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)   dramas of heaven

A (x02220@1)E (022100@1)    attention groud control,

G (320003@1)      Dthere's (xx0232@1)someone coming down, I don't know who

etc...

INTRO

CHORUS until end.


p.s. in the verse, the D Dmaj7 D sequence refers to this:

e-|--------------------|
B-|-3-23-23-23-23232---|
G-|-2-22-22-22-22222---|
D-|-0-00-00-00-00000---|
A-|--------------------|
E-|--------------------|

Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net
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