This has been updated to correct the main riff (thanks Richard!) and add the solo.
Main Riff:
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-3p2p0--------------
-------0h2p0-----0--
-------------0h2----
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After each time through the riff play chords (G G G G C)
Verses:
G
first time I saw it half asleep and broken hearted
C
they strapped half stacks to roof racks and drove to the parties
Am
nothing like home with the cold summer nights
F________________________________________C
they played songs for the girls and they drank til daylight
G____________________C_____________Riff
sunk my heart at the bottom of the bay
G____________________C_______________Riff
gonna wash up on the black rocks one day
G_________________________C____________Riff
like unlucky sailors just swept out to sea
D
I think all the girls I've loved walked through your streets
C
but the waves and the fog always took 'em from me
the Oakland apartments with the bars underneath 'em
the girlfriends and sweethearts and the bay in between 'em
I buried my heart at the bottom of the hill
if the girlfriends don't get you the sweethearts sure will
Solo
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------------------7s9-9-9-7-7-7-7-7-
-7s9--9s7-7-5-7-5-------------------
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-----------------7s9-9-9--------
-7s9-9-7-5-5-7-5---------7~-7~--
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-10^v-8-10^v-8----10^v-8-10^v-8---------
---------------9----------------9-9s12--
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The last bit of the solo also appears at the very end of the song.
only nineteen, so easy to forget
do you wake up every morning and thank god for those legs
north to Santa Rosa and south to Santa Cruz
the humboldt house, the boardwalk, and the homemade tattoos
Friday, July 24, 2009
San Francisco
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9 comments:
I play the intro a little different based on an old message board tab.
I start on the G and go up (G)3p2p0 (D)0h2p0 (A)0h2p0.
A little easier to play and sounds right to me...
Thanks for the feedback. The other way still sounds better to me, but lord knows I've been wrong before, so I'd be interested to hear others weigh in.
I think Richards way sounds closer, and I'm pretty sure that's how ben was playing it at sxsw this year, but I was too drunk to remember to ask him when I talked to him after the third show.
I've been playing the into riff on a loop, and I'm starting to think it's actually:
(G)3p2p0
(D)0h2p0
(A)0h2
(D)0
Same as Richard's, but ending on open D instead of A.
I've been playing with this song for a week or so now, and I'm fairly sure the main riff starts with a bend and not a pulloff... check this out and see if it fits?
(G) 2(bend up and back, then pull off.) So you get:
(G) 2^2p0
(D) 0h2p0
(A) 0h2
(D) 0
if that makes any sense? I've never written tab out, but this way sounds more correct to my ear.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right. Funny thing is, I'm also pretty sure that the original tab I learned from back on the old message board started with a bend. I guess it got changed because 3p2p0 is just easier, but Ben seems like he's bending it.
Thanks for commenting.
thanks for all your great tabs! Yr site has become my new lucero bible, hahaha.
I fret the third fret of the B string along with the first note, then keep it fretted through the whole phrase. I pull off the G string after the bend but keep the B string fretted at the third. sounds awesome.
Your site is awesome Noah. I play along to Lucero songs every day using your site. We really appreciate it.
Mike, I'll have to give that a try. And thank you for the compliment.
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