Dreamworld Chords

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Dreamworld by Midnight Oil is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, B, G, D, F#m, A and G#m. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			INTRO RIFF: (Do twice) 
 
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INTRO CHORDS :  E  B  G  D   E  B  G  D 
 
 
 
VERSE CHORDS: G  D    G  D    E  B    G  D 
The Breakfast Creek hotel is up for sale 
The last square mile of terra firma gavelled in the mail 
so farewell to the Norfolk Island pines 
No amount of make believe can help this heart of mine 
 
CHORUS: 
 
E  D    F#m A 
End...... 
 
E  D               F#m       B 
your dreamworld is just about to 
  
E  D    F#m A 
end 
 
E  D    F#m A 
Fall - 
  
E  D               F#m       B 
your dreamworld is just about to 
  
E  D    F#m A 
fall 
 
E      D               
Yours dreamworld will fall 
 
INTRO (twice): 
 
VERSE 2: 
So shut that buckle and turn that key again 
Take me to a place they say the dreaming never ends 
Open wide drive that mystery road 
Walk through eden's garden and then wonder as you go 
 
CHORUS (but end on E  D    Am..........) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BRIDGE LEAD: 
e-|--------------------0-----|    e-|--------------------0-----| 
B-|---------------4----------|    B-|---------------4----------| 
G-|--------4-----------------|and G-|--------4-----------------| 
D-|--6--------6--------------|    D-|--4--------4------4-------| 
A-|--------------------------|    A-|--------------------------| 
E-|-----------------4--------|    E-|--------------------------| 
                    ^ 
                   better fret this note with your thumb! 
 
e-|--------------------0-----| 
B-|--------0------0----------| 
G-|------------------6-------| 
D-|--4--------4--------------| 
A-|--------------------------| 
E-|--------------------------| 
 
 
BRIDGE RHYTHM:   G#m 
 
Sign says honymoon to rent 
Cloudland into dreamland turns 
The sun comes up and we all learn 
Those wheels must turn 
 
 
THEN do  INTRO riff once followed by  
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Then TWO more CHORUSES 
 
then use VERSE chords until end 

    	

Chord diagrams

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante