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. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Received: from udavxb (udavxb.oca.udayton.edu [131.238.1.11]) by post-office.nevada.edu (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id WAA14641 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 1994 22:00:26 -0800 From: [email protected] Received: from udavxb.oca.udayton.edu by udavxb.oca.udayton.edu (PMDF V4.2-10 #2481) id <[email protected]>; Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:57:54 EDT Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: /pub/guitar/j/Jethro.Tull/BackToTheFamily TAB To: [email protected] Message-id: <[email protected]> X-VMS-To: WINS%"[email protected]" MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Back to the Family -- Jethro Tull (Stand Up) Capo 2, or transpose up 1 full step. Lyrics not guaranteed! Intro Lick: C G Em A Asus2 e|---------------|---------------|----------------|---------------|---0--> B|---------------|---------------|----------------|---------------|---0--> G|--0h2-p0----0--|---------------|----------------|---------------|---2--> D|---------------|--0h2-p0-------|--0--------0h2--|------------2--|---2--> A|--3->----------|------------3--|-----------0h2--|--0---------0--|---0--> E|---------------|--3->----------|-------3--------|-------3----0--|------ x x x x x x x x x x x x Lick #2: This one is played behind most of the verses, during the 'G' chord. The tab below assumes you're playing an open G (300023); just work this pattern into your finger-picking, if any. It also sounds nice when moved down an octave, but you need to go to dropped-D tuning. e|----------------|----------------| (Played twice behind 1st B|--0--0h1--0-----|----------------| line of each verse) G|-------------2--|--0--0----------| D|----------------|--------0h2--0--| A|----------------|----------------| E|----------------|----------------| Verse 1: G My telephone wakes me in the morning. Have to get up to answer the call, F C G F C G So I think I'll go back to the family, where no one can ring me at all. Verse 2: G Living this life has its problems, so I think that I'll give it a break. F C G F C G Oh, I'm going back to the family, 'cause I've had about all I can take. Repeat intro lick, then: Am C D C Master's in the counting house, counting all his money. D C Sister's sitting by the mirror, she thinks her hair looks funny. G Bb C D And here am I thinking to myself, just a-wondering what it pays to do. Solo 1 (bass/flute) Alternate D & C, then end on Asus2 Verse 3: G I think I enjoyed all my problems, where I did not get nothing for free. F C G F C G Oh, I'm going back to the family, doing nothing is bothering me. Verse 4: G I'll get a train back to the city. The soft life is getting me down. F C G F C G There's more fun away from the family, get some action when I roll into town. Repeat intro lick, then: Am C D C Everything I do is wrong. What the hell was I thinking? D C Phone keeps ringing all day long, I got no time for thinking. G Bb C D And every day has the same old way, they're giving me too much to do. Solos (bass/flute, then guitar, then all fade) D C D C ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comments/corrections to: [email protected] (Bob Brockman)
