From: jayv@uiuc.edu (john v verkuilen)
Date: 12 Jan 2003 05:58:42 +0100


				"Overkill"

			   by Colin James Hay

			  from the album Cargo

		transcribed by Jay Verkuilen (jayv@uiuc.edu)

The song as played on the album is clean, chorused, and delayed.  It sounds 
rather like Strats into Twins or some similar clean tube amp (the classic 
Men at Work/Police early '80's tone we all know and love :).  It works fairly 
well acoustic.  There are at least two guitar tracks.  One is a pretty 
straight rhythm.  The other plays some "brittle" sounding atmospheric picked-
apart chords with lots of delay.    


Intro (play twice):  (Sax, possibly with a guitar in unison 
underneath--I can't quite tell)

 G5                A5
--------------------------------------------------
----8-7---------------8-7-------------------------
--------7-----------------7-----------------------
----------9~~~--------------7~~~------------------
--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------


Chords (all palm muted downstrokes, pretty much):

G5	355xxx
D5	x577xx
F5	133xxx
C5	x355xx
Emin	x7998x
D	x5777x
C	x3555x


Verse (rhythm is dotted quarters for guitar, straight eight for bass): 

G5             D5
I can't get to sleep
F5		  C5
I think about the implications
G5               D5
Of diving in too deep
F5		 C5	
And possibly the complications

(rest of verses basically the same)



Chorus:

Emin		   D
Day after day it reappears
Emin		               D
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
C      D          Emin      C   D
Ghosts appear and fade away (come back another day)


Solo (warm but clean, chorused, and delayed strat sound):  

-----5--------------3-------------
---8---8-7~~--3-5b6---5b6---------
--------------------------5-4-0---
----------------------------------
----------------------------------
----------------------------------

(Incomplete, the rest is coming soon :)  


Song structure:

Intro
Verse
Verse
Chorus
Verse 
Verse
Chorus (with "come back another day" inserted)
Solo
Chorus
Verse
Verse 
Chorus (with "ghosts appear and fade away" repeated)

Jay 
--
J. Verkuilen						jayv@uiuc.edu
"It is enough that the people know there was an election.  Those who cast
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							--Josef Stalin 

• overkill