Bullroarer

Bullroarer by Midnight Oil

from the album "Diesel and Dust"

INTRO and VERSE chord sequence:

 

A B C#m (with E at the very end)

LYRICS:

in the desert in the dry

before the breaking of the rain

the temperature in the shade

had reached a hundred and ten again

in the desert in the dry

on the overland telegraph line

don't take the law into your own hands

don't go looking for a fight

nah nah nah nah,

I've heard the bullroarers

in the desert, in the dry

some sit so high

long day's mile and the

radio crackles and the bones bleached white

it's a knock-em-down storm

see the tin roof shake

wild dog howls and the long grass

whistles and the tall trees break

nah nah nah nah,

I've seen the wild horses

I've heard the bullroarers

I've seen the wild horses

x4

etc...

p.s. I play the B chord throughout the verse, muted with my right hand.

p.p.s. there's a little solo-thing in a couple of the verses... here it is:

e-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

B-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

G-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

D-|---------------------------------------------------------------|

A-|--2----4-5---0----2----232---0----2----4-5---0-----------------|

E-|-----------------2---------------2-----------------------------|

and at the end:

e-|---------------------------|

B-|---------------------------|

G-|--2-4-2--------------------|

D-|--------4-0---0-2-0--------|

A-|--------------------4-2----|

E-|---------------------------|

then:

e-|----------------------------------------------|

B-|----------------------------------------------|

G-|----------------------------------------------|

D-|----------------------------------------------|

A-|--4--0-----4-0----2----4-5-4-0----2----232----|

E-|--------2-----202-------------202-------------| etc...

Jonathan Hart

Oils@total.net