When The Generals Talk Guitar Tabs by Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil
Red Sails in the Sunset
When The Generals Talk

Copyrighted © by Columbia Records, 1984
Version 1.0 October 1984

Tabbed by: Alexander Westers
infernal_purge@hotmail.com

Note:
\\ = slide down
~~ = vibrato


Bass opening:
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-----4--4--0-|

Riff 1’:
|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------------|
|--------------5--7\\---|-----------------------------|
|-0-0-2--3--0-----------|-0-0-2--0-0-2--0-0-2--0-0-2--|

Riff 1:
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------5~~---|
|-0-0-2--3--0-----------|-0-0-2--3--0--------|


Chorus:
|-7~~--|-7~~--|
|-7~~--|-7~~--|
|-7~~--|-7~~--|
|-9~~--|-9~~--|
|------|------|
|------|------|

Riff 1”:
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|
|--------------7--9\\---|--------------7~~---|
|-2-2-4--5--2-----------|-2-2-4--5--2--------|
|-----------------------|--------------------|


Riff 2:                         
|--------------------|-------------------|
|--------0------0----|------0-3------3-1-|
|------1------1---/2-|----1--------1-----|
|--0-3------2--------|--3--------2-------|
|--------------------|---------|---------|
|--------------------|---------|---------|
                               *
* = Third time, riff stops here



Song structure:

Riff 1’
Riff 1 (3x)

Chorus (2x)

Riff 1”

Chorus (2x)

Riff 2 (3x)

Riff 1
Riff 1’
Riff 1 (3x)

Chorus (2x)

Riff 1
Riff 1 (first half)
Riff 1

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