Minutes To Midnight Chords

KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays693

Minutes To Midnight by Midnight Oil is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, G, D, F, Cm and G/B. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Am
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Am
   Everybody say God is a good man
Am
   Ah, clock on the world
Am
Driving a dump truck up to the sun
Am
   A sigh in the human heart

Am     G           D           G
   I look at the clock on the wall
    Am          G         D         G
It says three minutes to midnight
 Am        G           D      G
Faith is blind when we're so near

Am
Phar Lap floating in a jar
Am
Seas full of submarines, A.W.A.C.'s like flies
Am
Truth gets harder to define
Am
     Talking in tongues

Am             G         D            G
   But the dancer's hand   grips the rail
    Am            G             D G
And fingers will blister on the 88's
Am           G        D          G 
Hope drains out the side of the page
          D         
     But ears can't hear
          F             
     What eyes don't see
                        Cm      G/B
     And you can't see me

Cm     G/B

Am
   Everybody say God is a good man
Am
   Everybody say 1,2,3
Am
   Set up those gunsights in H.G.Wells' backyard
Am
   I.C.B.M.'s, S.S.20's, they lie so dormant, they got so many
Am    G          D       G
   Remember your childhood
Am    G          D    G    
   Remember your journey
Am        G       D      G
Hope is what you say and do
          D         
     But ears can't hear
          F             
     What eyes don't see
                        Cm      
     And you can't see me

Am

          D         
     But ears can't hear
          F             
     What eyes don't see
           D         
     But ears can't hear
                 F             
     What those eyes don't see
                 F 
     And you can't see me
    	

Chord diagrams

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100 BPM Andante