I think your tab is the closest I have ever found on the net… But I think if you look
at my version you will see that the one you have posted is not quite right.
Colin Hay Acoustic version of Overkill
This is an alternate tuning First and Sixth stings tuned to D.
This is a great blues slide tune, so try a slider on it after you
learn the song and have some fun. I don’t know the names of
these cords so I have numbered them. C1 =Cord #1 and so on.
D --0-- --x-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --0-- --x-- --x--
B --7-- --7-- --7-- --7-- --5-- --5-- --3-- --0-- --0--
G --0-- --7-- --0-- --6-- --0-- --4-- --4-- --7-- --6--
D --7-- --7-- --7-- --7-- --5-- --5-- --4-- --5-- --5--
A --5-- --5-- --5-- --4-- --3-- --2-- --2-- --0-- --0--
D --0-- --5-- --x-- --x-- --x-- --x-- --0-- --7-- --7--
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/c/colin_hay/overkill_crd.html ]
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9
D --x-- --x-- --0-- --0-- --0--
B --0-- --0-- --3-- --3-- --2--
G --3-- --3-- --4-- --2-- --2--
D --4-- --2-- --5-- --2-- --2--
A --4-- --4-- --5-- --0-- --0--
D --x-- --x-- --x-- --x-- --x--
C10 C11 C12 C13 C14
Intro is C1 and C2 cords.
The intro is used as a break during the song also.
C3 C4
I can't get to sleep
C5 C6
I think about the implications
...
C7 C13 C14
Day after day it reappears
C7 C8 C9
Night after night my heartbeat, shows the fear
C10 C11 C12
Ghosts appear and fade away
Format copied, music figured out by Gary Hutchings 2004
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