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Smiling At Strangers On Trains - Frank Turner
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Tabbed by: Neil Wicker
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
capo 2
Amadd9 - 020210
Riff chords: strum each a few times and a single strum of the last one on the last
time, I made a sound clip to explain this better, https://soundcloud.com/wicker101/
smiling-at-stranger-on-train?in=wicker101/sets/tabs-guitar-only
first full speed then slower.
e|--0--0--0--0--3------------3--|
B|--1--1--1--1--0--0h1--1p0--0--|
G|--0--0--2--0--0--0----0-------|
D|--3--5--2--2--0--0h2--2p0-----|
A|--3--5--0--3--0--0----0-------|
E|--x--x----(3)-3--3----3-------|
repeat this riff for the verses (listen to the song for timing)
Chorus:
Dm (hammer on the high e string here (0h1) and end on 000230)
smoke.
and you were always
Dm Am
as far as Mongolia, as close as my clothes
Amadd9 C/G
your presence pervading, but it still never shows
F
as close as the answer I never quite know, or can’t quite remember
Dm Am
your distance insidious, as soft as a blow
Amadd9 C/G
your shadow is with me wherever I go
F
it’s on the tip of my tongue but still I never quite know, or can’t quite remember
verse
Dm Am
your distance insidious, as soft as a blow
Amadd9 C/G
your shadow is with me wherever I go
it’s on the tip of my tongue it's on the tip of my...
F, F, G, Dm
F, F, G (x55433), Dm
F(x2)
If I'd known
G
if I'd known
Dm
if I'd known
F(x2)
if I'd known x3
G
if I'd known x2
Dm
if I'd known x2
F G
that you weren’t so far away
Dm F
that you weren’t so far away
G
that you weren’t so far away
Dm F
that you were never that far away
G
that you weren’t so far away
Dm F
that you weren’t so far away
G Dm
that you weren’t so far... away
(this is the best way to explain this part as I could find, x4 for example means
hold that chord for 4 counts of 3 (1,2,3..1,2,3))
F x4 G x2, Dm x2
I could of rode
F x4, G x2, Dm x2
this
F x4, G x2, Dm x2, Fx4, G x2, Dm x2
train
F
smiling
