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Minutes to Midnight

Midnight Oil
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Minutes to Midnight by Midnight Oil

from the album "Red Sails in the Sunset"

Am

Everybody say God is a good man

Am

Ah, clock on the world

Am

Driving a dumptruck up to the sun

Am

A sigh in the human heart

Am G D G

I look at the clock on the wall

Am G D G

It says three minutes to midnight

Am G D G

Faith is blind when we're so near

Am

Phar Lap floating in a jar

Am

Seas full of submarines, A.W.A.C.'s like flies

Am

Truth gets harder to define

Am

Talking in tongues

Am G D G

But the dancer's hand grips the rail

Am G D G

And fingers will blister on the 88's

Am G D G

Hope drains out the side of the page

D

But ears can't hear

F

What eyes don't see

Cm (?) G/B

And you can't see me

Am - with solo: (played on a 12-string)

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

Am - with solo:

e-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G-|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|-/7-----5------------------------------------------------------|
A-|--------------7-----5---3-5-7---555555530-3-----555555530-3----|
E-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

D with solo: then F with solo:

e-|------------------------|   e-|------------------------|
B-|------------------------|   B-|------------------------|
G-|-/7-------4-----5-------|   G-|-/7-------4-----5-------|
D-|------------------------|   D-|------------------------|
A-|------------------------|   A-|------------------------|
E-|------------------------|   E-|------------------------|

Cm (?) G/B

Am

Everybody say God is a good man

Am

Everybody say 1,2,3

Am

Set up those gunsights in H.G.Wells' backyard

Am

I.C.B.M.'s, S.S.20's, they lie so dormant, they got so many

Am G D G

Remember your childhood

Am G D G

Remember your journey

Am G D G

Hope is what you say and do

D

But ears can't hear

F

What eyes don't see

Cm (?)

And you can't see me

Am

D

But ears can't hear

F

What eyes don't see

D

But ears can't hear

F

What those eyes don't see

And you can't see me

End

p.s. I'm still not sure if that's a Cminor or a Cmajor?!

Jonathan Hart

Oils@total.net

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