BAND: Midnight Oil
SONG: Blue Sky Mine
TABLATURE: Guitar
TABBED BY: Cool-TJ cooltj11@hotmail.com
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Tune Guitar Down 1/2 Step
e=eb
B=Bb
G=Gb
D=Db
A=Ab
E=Eb
Opening Riff
eb-0-0---0---|-0-0---0-0---|-0-0---0-0-|-3-0-0---------|
Bb-0-0-3-0---|-0-0-3-0-0-3-|-0-0-3-0-0-|-3-0-0-3-------|
Gb-----2-----|-----2-----2-|-----2-----|-------2-------|
Db-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|
Ab-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|
Eb-----------|-------------|-----------|---------------|
(Chords written on how they are played, not musically sounded)
Intro
(w/ Opening Riff)
Em Dsus2 Em G Em Dsus2 G1 (Chorus Chord Pattern)
Hey hey hey hey, There`ll be food on the table tonight
(Continue Chorus Pattern)
Hey hey hey hey, There`ll be pay in your pocket tonight
Verse 1:
D Bm
My gut is wrenched out and is crunched up and broken
D Bm
My life that is lived is no more than a token
G2 A
Who`ll strike the flint up on the stone and tell me why
D Bm
If I yell out at night, theres a reply of blue silence
D Bm
The screen is no comfort, I cant speak my sentence
G2 A
They blew the lights at heavens gate and I dont know why
Chorus :
Em Dsus2 Em G1
And if I work all day in the blue sky mine
Em Dsus2 Em G1
There`ll be food on the table tonight
Em Dsus2 Em G1
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
Em Dsus2 Em G1
There`ll be pay in my pocket tonight
Verse 2 :
The Candy Store paupers lie to the share holders
They`re crossing their fingers as they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
So I`m caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat on my brow keeps feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night
Bridge :
Em A
And if the blue sky mining company wont come to the rescue
Em A
If the sugar refining company wont save me
C G6 D A Bm
Whos gonna save me?
D A Bm
Whos gonna save me?
D A Bm
Whos gonna save me?
Chorus :
But if I work all day in the blue sky mine
There`ll be food on the table tonight
but I still walk up and down on the blue sky mine
There`ll be pay on your pocket tonight
and some have sailed from a distant shore
and the company takes what the company wants
and theres nothing as precious, as a hole in the ground
Guitar Solo :
In Bm pentatonic over Verse Chords
Harmonica Solo:
Over first half of bridge chords
Outro :
Uses Bridge Chords
There... That`s It!
Good Luck with it ;)
Cool-TJ (cooltj11@hotmail.com)
