Burnie

Song

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Burnie by Midnight Oil

from the album "Scream in Blue"

(tabbed for one guitar)

Verse:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------0-2-|
D|-----------------------------2-3-------------------------2-3-2-3-|
A|---------1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------1-1-1-0/5-5-5-0---------|
E|-1-1-1-1-------------------------1-1-1-1-------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------2-3-----------------------------2-3-|
A|---------1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------1-1-1-0/5-5-5-0-0-0-----|
E|-1-1-1-1-------------------------1-1-1-1-------------------------|

The last 2 bars leading into the bridge go:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------8---------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------6---------|
D|-----------------------------2-3-----------------------8---------|
A|---------1-1-1-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------1-1-1-0/5-5---6---------|
E|-1-1-1-1-------------------------1-1-1-1-------------------------|

Bridge#1:

D#7 (2 bars) C# (7 bars) A (1 bar)

Chorus:

E C G D E C G D E C G D E C D

E C G D E C G D E C G D E C

Bridge#2:

e|-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3-------3---|
B|-0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-1-----0-|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------0-------------------------------0-------------|
A|-----0-------------------------------0-----------------------------|
E|-------------0---------------1---------------0---------------1-----|

and back into the verse.

In the second verse there are a couple of little adlibs/solos:

adlib#1:

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-------------3-----7---------0-2---|
D|-----3-----3---3-----7---2-3-2-3---|
A|---0---0-1------/5-----5-----------|
E|-1---------------------------------|

adlib#2:

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-------------------6-----5---------|
G|-------------3-----------------7---|
D|-----3-----3---3-----7-----7-------|
A|---0---0-1------/5-----5-----5-----|
E|-1---------------------------------|

*The second Bridge#2 sort of fades into a variation of adlib#2...

and then back into Bridge#2...

That's about it!

LYRICS

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brought up in a world of changes

part time cleaner in a holiday flat

I stare out to sea at the ships at night

no anaesthesia, I'm going to work on it day by day

no zephyr, no light relief it seems

but maybe it's a dream

I'm lying back in a row of timber

cases placed out on the dock

with nightmare faces looking at me

and I can see now, I wanna be free now

this is my home

this is my sea

don't paint it with the future of factories

I want to stay

I feel ok

there's nothing else that's perfect

I'll have my way

brought up in a world of changes,

waste-product, pedestrian limb from limb

short-changed by the surfin' priest again

two children in the harbour,

they play their games storm water drain

write their contract in the sand, it'll be grey for life

but you can draw the blind,

but you can't stop the sun from shining

on and on and getting you there

the tide forever beckons you to leave

but something holds you back,

it's not the promise of a swell or a girl

just a hope that someday, some way,

it'll be ok. You stop and say

This is my home

This is my sea

Don't paint it with the future of factories

this is my life

this is my right

I'll make it what I want to

I'll stay and I'll fight

END

This song absolutely rocks. Hail to the kings.

Jonathan Hart

Oils@total.net