Colin Hay Acoustic version of Overkill 
 
Though more work has gone in the writing of other verions  
of this tab I belive if you take the time to play it with both 
the CD and the preformance on the TV show SCRUBS 
you will find this to tab to be the closest yet. 
 
On SCRUBS Colin plays a blues jam before breaking into  
the song that shows he is using this tuning. 
 
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-- 
 
   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  
[email protected]