Sell My Soul

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):

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:

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:

 

LYRICS:

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

sell my soul to him

shed my skin, I just wanna shed my skin

I don't wanna sell my soul to him

mechanize, city bursts and farmers die

they cry, sell my soul to him

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

sell my soul to him

in this world I often think you'd understand me

in these words I often think you'd recognize me

'cause I just wanna swim with the fish in the sea

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

I just wanna celebrate

I'm not going to sell my soul to him

when you look right in

sell my soul to him

you're gonna come on done

sell my soul to him

sell my soul to him

End.

Jonathan Hart

Oils@total.net