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Best Of Both Worlds

Biography:

Midnight Oil are an influential alternative rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1976. The band originally formed as "Farm" in 1972. The band is best known for their political activism and environmentalism and their 1987 worldwide hit single "Beds Are Burning". For most of their career, the band consisted of Peter Garrett (vocals), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboards), Martin Rotsey (guitar), Bones Hillman (bass, vocals) and Rob Hirst (drums).

The band split in 2002 to allow Garrett to focus on his political career.

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Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

Intro: Play 4 times
(riff 1.)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2-2---1-1-----0--------------------------------------------|
D|-0-0---2-2-----5-----4-4---4-4---3-3---3-3------0-------------|
A|-------------3-3---5-5---2-2---1-1---0-0-----5----------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-3----------------|

Verse 1:

E D/A E7sus/B C
You say times are tough
D N.C E D
We've got the best of both worlds here
E7sus/B C
Things are rough
D N.C E D
We've got the best of both worlds here
E7sus/B C
Times are tough
D N.C
We've got the best of both worlds

Riff 1. Two Times

Repeat Verse 1.

Chorus:

BbM7 Bb5 F/A
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
Am G/B
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
BbM7 Bb5 F/A
The old world is not as safe with the new world closing in
Am G/B
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
Bm G
The one it could have been
Am F/A
The one it could have been

Solo Break:

Am E Am E

Chorus:

BbM7 Bb5 F/A
The real world is not as calm as it appears to be from here
Am G/B
The small world is not as strong and the testing ground is near
BbM7 Bb5 F/A
The old world is not as strong as the one we could have seen
Am G/B
The great south land can be as great as the one it could have been
Bm G/B
The one it could have been
Bm G/B
The one it could have been
Am F/A
The one it could have been

Solo:

Chords over Solo:

Am E A E
Bm G Am F/A
Am E Am E

E D/A E7sus4/B C D
E D/A E7sus4/B C D

Last Verse:

E D/A E7sus/B C
You say times are tough
D N.C E D
We've got the best of both worlds here
E7sus/B C
Things are rough
D N.C E D
We've got the best of both worlds here
E7sus/B C
Times are tough
D N.C
We've got the best of both worlds Here
E D/A E7sus4/B C
And I know that Things are rough
D
We've got the best of both worlds

(riff 1.)
e|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2-2---1-1-----0--------------------------------------------|
D|-0-0---2-2-----5-----4-4---4-4---3-3---3-3------0-------------|
A|-------------3-3---5-5---2-2---1-1---0-0-----5----------------|
E|-------------------------------------------3-3----------------|

D N.C
We've got the best of both worlds
E D/A E7sus4/B C
We've got the best of both worlds
D N.C
We've got the best of both worlds
E D/A E7sus4/B C
We've got the best of both worlds
D N.C
We've got the best of both worlds

End on D5