Tabbed by Tim Byron (tpb04@uow.edu.au) 
 
This song is from the album "Strange Bird", but mostly tabbed from  
a live version played in early 2002. It's in 12 8, standard guitar 
tuning, with only two chords.  
 
ocultar tablatura
 
INTRO: 
(orchestral bit. then:) 
|Em Em F# Em G Em F# | x16 
    
  4 . . 1 . . 2 . . 3 . . 4 . . 1 . . 2 . . 3 . .  
e-------------------------------------------------- 
b-------------------------------------------------- 
g-------------------------------------------------- 
d-------------------------------------------------- 
a-4-----------------------4------------------------ 
e---3-2-0-------------------3-2-0------------------
 
 
(in that bit, adam mostly plays this guitar line, glenn 
mostly just plays an Em chord, Kiernan does stuff over the top) 
 
|Em   |Em  Am  |Em  Am | Em     | 
 
Em                                     
they married, a dandy and a back alley tough  
       Am 
on the foreshore while kids in the needling rough 
     Am 
stayed low, in, and laid til they'd had enough 
       Em 
in the somersaulting hot roll of revolting september 
 
    Em 
but thickets beneath the hot halo above 
Am 
The plague bodies bathed in their talentless love 
     Am 
it's hot in the town with his back to the sea 
Em 
O darling don't put your veil over me. 
 
|Em   |Em  Am  |Em  Am | Em     | 
 
Em 
From thinking your life was about them, when long 
Am 
they were the thorns in his side 
    Am 
the hard men got plucked and by measures were gone 
   Em 
at pride it plucked and out, out it pried. 
 
Em                                  Am 
where's the shame in a gentle man?  Stand him next to me? 
Am 
it's hot in the town with its back to the sea 
Em 
O darling don't put your veil over me. 
 
|Em   |Em  Am  |Em  Am | Em     | 
 
Em                                         Am 
honey we'll go without, honey grow old and thin 
  Em              Am          Em 
i love you like i love my own skin 
 
|Em   | x8 
 
Em 
from thinking a life was about them but stranger 
    Am 
the soft women lowed, came in and were in, 
   Am 
to swoon, 'O welcome hot united sailor' 
Em 
welcome from unsteady decks and from danger 
 
        Em 
did you see a new sun in the sky? 
    Am  
the sun is blood and blood is a lie  
     Am 
it's hot in the town with its back to the sea 
Em 
O darling don't put your veil over me... 
 
Em 
did you see a new sun in the sky? 
    Am 
the sun is blood and blood is a lie 
     Am 
it's hot in the town with it's back to the sea 
Em 
darling don't put your veil over me 
 
Em                                         Am 
honey we'll go without, honey grow old and thin 
Em                Am          Em 
i love you like i love my own skin 
   Em                                                 Am 
my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie grows old and thin 
  Em              Am          Em 
i love her like i love my own skin 
  Em              Am          Em 
i love her like i love my own skin. 
 
Em Emadd2 F# Em G Emadd2 F# | x8