MIDNIGHT OIL - "Sell My Soul" Tablature

#

Sell my Soul by Midnight Oil
from the album "Diesel and Dust"

This is the way I play it on acousitic guitar. It is somewhat simplified.

INTRO rhythm (chords):

D F#m Bm D9

INTRO lead:

D chord, hammer on/off with the third finger, i.e.:

e-|-2-2-2-2---2-2-2----|
B-|-3-3-2-3---3-2-3----| etc.. and end with D9
G-|-2-2-2-2---2-2-2----|
D-|-0-0-0-0---0-0-0----|
A-|--------------------|
E-|--------------------|


VERSE lead:

e-|-------------------|
B-|--1-1-0-1---1-0-1--|
G-|--2-2-0-2---2-0-2--| etc..
D-|--2-2-0-2---2-0-2--|
A-|--0-0-0-0---0-0-0--|
E-|-------------------|


VERSE rhythm:

Am G Am Am G Am

CHORUS lead:

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

CHORUS rhythm:

F Am C G Am G Am

BRIDGE:

Em F#m D A Bm G G




LYRICS:


let's begin, I am ready let's begin

F Am C G Am
sell my soul to him

Am
shed my skin, I just wanna shed my skin

F Am C G
I don't wanna sell my soul to him

Am G Am Am G Am
mechanize, city bursts and farmers die

F Am C G
they cry, sell my soul to him

Am G Am Am G Am
sleep face down in a goods train heading south in the rain

F Am C G
sell my soul to him

Em F#m D A Bm G
in this world I often think you'd understand me

Em F#m D A Bm G
in these words I often think you'd recognize me

D F#m
'cause I just wanna swim with the fish in the sea

Bm D9
and I want faith to heal so that I can be clean


[solo]

[insert Peter's rant here]

Am
I just wanna celebrate

F Am C G Am
I'm not going to sell my soul to him


when you look right in

F Am C G Am
sell my soul to him


you're gonna come on done

F Am C G Am
sell my soul to him

F Am C G Am
sell my soul to him


End.

Jonathan Hart
Oils@total.net