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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
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Ashley Rhythm Player |
#1 by Ashley 666 at Sep 15, 1993 at 4:06 PM EST |
| According to what i learned sell my soul had to do with the Lost Generation and indiginous people of australia who faced colonization by biritain and persecution and economic presssure to modernize like in the song 'mechanize, city bursts and famers die'. Overall he cries for freedom and that he just wants to be himself and be free like a 'fish in the sea'. | |
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No Picture
drw Average |
#2 by drw drw at Aug 19, 1999 at 6:49 PM EST |
| Yes whatever101, u are right... Midnight Oil are so powerful with all of their songs, read their lyrics and you can see. Personally, this song brings back memories of being a teenager out for the night at a party with the girls and a girlfriend of mine said "NO" to her then boyfriend and he was pissed off... Later on that night we all sang "I'm not going to sell my soul to him" Thank gooodness she didn't, he wasn't worth it!!!! | |
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