• Song:

    Read About It

  • Artist:

    Midnight Oil

  • Album:

    1984-04-10: Park West, ...

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

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Read About It  by Midnight Oil
from the album "10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1"

INTRO: (7 beats/bar)

B (x2444x@1)C#m (x13321@4) E (022100@1)C#m (x13321@4)A (x02220@1)C#m (x13321@4)timed something like this:

e-|--------------------------------------------------------|
B-|-4---5-5---5-9-9-5---5---5---4---5-5---5-9-9-5---5---5--|
G-|-4---6-6---6-9-9-6---6---6---4---6-6---6-9-9-6---6---6--|
D-|-4---6-6---6-9-9-6---7---6---4---6-6---6-9-9-6---7---6--|
A-|-2---4-4---4-7-7-4---7---4---2---4-4---4-7-7-4---7---4--|
E-|---------------------5---------------------------5------|

(It's pretty hard to play this way, so I suggest ignoring the notes
on the B-string)


VERSE: (8 beats/bar)

B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)   B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)   B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)  G#m (133111@4)B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)   B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)   B (x2444x@1) E (022100@1)  C#m (x13321@4)   A (x02220@1)
CHORUS: (6 beats/bar)

e-|-------------------------------------------------5-------------|
B-|-------------------------------------------------7-------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------7-------------|
D-|-------------2-2-----6---------------2-2-----6---7-------------|
A-|-2---4-4---4-----4-------2---4-4---4-----4-------5-------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------5-------------|


BRIDGE: (8 beats/bar)

A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3)  A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3)  A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3) Gm (355333@1)A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3)  A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3)  A# (x1333x@1)D# (x43121@3) Cm (x3101x@1)  G# (xx1114@1)
LYRICS:

INTRO

    B (x2444x@1)      E (022100@1)         B (x2444x@1)         Ethe (022100@1)rich get richer, the poor get the picture

    B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)                   G#mthe (133111@4)bombs never hit you when you're down so low

   B (x2444x@1)      E (022100@1)      B (x2444x@1)    Esome (022100@1)got pollution, some revolution

      B (x2444x@1)           E (022100@1)            C#m (x13321@4)           Athere (x02220@1)must be some solution but I just don't know

    B (x2444x@1)          E (022100@1)            B (x2444x@1)         Ethe (022100@1)bosses want decisions, the workers need ambitions

       B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)                   G#mthere (133111@4)won't be no collisions when they move so slow

B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)       B (x2444x@1)           Enothing (022100@1)ever happens, nothing really matters

B (x2444x@1)          E (022100@1)             C#m (x13321@4)                 Ano (x02220@1)one ever tells me what am I to know, so what am I to know


   you wouldn't read about it, read about it

   D (xx0232@1)  just another incredible scene, there's no doubt about it

B (x2444x@1)       E (022100@1)          B (x2444x@1)         Ehammer (022100@1)and sickle, the news is at a trickle

    B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)               G#mthe (133111@4)commisars are fickle but the stockpile grows

B (x2444x@1)         E (022100@1)       B (x2444x@1)         Ebombers (022100@1)keep coming, engines softly humming

     B (x2444x@1)               E (022100@1)                  C#m (x13321@4)         Athe (x02220@1)stars and stripes are running for their own big show

B (x2444x@1)           E (022100@1)         B (x2444x@1)            Eanother (022100@1)little flare up, storm brewed in a teacup

B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)            G#mimagine (133111@4)any mixup and the lot would go


nothing ever happens, nothing really matters

B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)               C#m (x13321@4)                 Ano (x02220@1)one ever tells me what am I to know, so what am I to know


  you wouldn't read about it, read about it

   D (xx0232@1) one unjust ridiculous steal, ain't no doubt about it


  you wouldn't read about it, read about it

   D (xx0232@1) just another particular deal, ain't no doubt about it

INTRO

BRIDGE

    B (x2444x@1)      E (022100@1)         B (x2444x@1)         Ethe (022100@1)rich get richer, the poor get the picture

    B (x2444x@1)        E (022100@1)                   G#mthe (133111@4)bombs never hit you when you're down so low

   B (x2444x@1)      E (022100@1)      B (x2444x@1)    Esome (022100@1)got pollution, some de-evolution

      B (x2444x@1)           E (022100@1)            C#m (x13321@4)           Athere (x02220@1)must be some solution but I just don't know


B (x2444x@1)    E (022100@1)  B (x2444x@1)   E (022100@1) ahh-ahhh,   ahh-ahhh    etc...

INTRO

End.

Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net
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