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Drums of Heaven

Midnight Oil
Tab
4.8(5)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

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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

E

by the time the luminous descent of the bright star unfolds

E D Dmaj7 D

and tablets of strangelove are shattered and bruised

E

by the time the oleander is falling from bloom

E D Dmaj7 D

and tears of the crocodile water the sun

C#m B

by the time you make up your mind

C#m A

if ever you do

C#m

I hear the drums of heaven too

C#m B

by the time you make up your mind

E F#

if ever you do

A B C#m

I hear the drums of heaven too

E B G D A E G

INTRO

E

by the time paradise alley is littered with rust

E D Dmaj7 D

and the arc of dayglo is curtained in gloom

E

by the time kidney bone cities are crumbling to dust

E D Dmaj7 D

and the empires and all of the emirated burn

C#m B

by the time you make up your mind

C#m A

if ever you do

C#m

I hear the drums of heaven too

C#m B

by the time you make up your mind

E F#

remember this too

A B C#m

I hear the drums of heaven too

A B C#m

I hear the drums of heaven too

E B

ice on the mountain

G D

wind and the dust storm

A E

sails in the desert

G D

it's old and exploding

E B

seers and the prophets

G D

dramas of heaven

A E

attention groud control,

G D

there's 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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