x#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 15:32:14 MET DST To: [email protected] Subject: "Slainte_Mhath" by Marillion "Slainte Mhath" by Marillion First, the piano: --#---------------------------------- ------------------------------------- O = 1/4 note o = 1/8 note -----------------------O------------- ------------------------------------- (4 times) O o o --------------o--------------o------- --- --- --- --- o o o o Then, some chords: [D] [C] [Am] [G] (4 times) Now, a guitar: e ---------------------------- b -4-3-4---------4-3-4------6- g --------3-5-3---------3-5--- (repeat this forever and ever) d ---------------------------- a ---------------------------- e ---------------------------- chords: [F] [Eb] Time for some singing: A [F] hand held over a [Eb] candle in angst fuelled bra[F]vado [Eb] A [F] carbon trail [Eb] scores a moist stretched [F] palm [Eb] (etc.) And you [C] listen with a [F] tear in [Bb] your eye to their [C] hopes and be[F]trayels and your [Bb] only reply is Slainte mhath. The guitar-riff starts again, with the same chords: [F] Princes in exile [Eb] raising the standard Dram[F]buie [Eb] Pa[F]rading their anecdotes [Eb] tired from old cam[F]paigns [Eb] (etc.) Take it a[Ab]way Take it a[Bb]way Take it a[Csus4]way Take it a[Bbsus4]way, take it away Take it a[Csus7]way, take it away Take me a[C]way! [Bb] [F] [C] [Bb] [F] From the [C] dream on a the barbed wire at Flanders and [Bb] Bilston [F] Glen From a [C] Clydeside that rusts from the tears of its [Bb] broken [F] men (etc.) And that's all folks! Stefan (pronounced: Stay-fun) Frank [email protected] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands (With thanks to Mark van 't Zet for the tab-notation)
