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
AmGDG
I look at the clock on the wall
AmGDG
It says three minutes to midnight
AmGDG
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
AmGDG
But the dancer's hand grips the rail
AmGDG
And fingers will blister on the 88's
AmGDG
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
AmGDG
Remember your childhood
AmGDG
Remember your journey
AmGDG
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
AmD
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