Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader
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tabbed by BFG4
This is my arrangement of the piano line for the guitar. The chords are 100%
correct (with respect to capo) obtained from an official Elliott Smith guitar sheet.
Capo on the 3rd fret
Tuning: Standard
Intro (playing the F chord use your thumb on the low F)
Am F C Dsus4 D F G
---0--------0-------------------------------------------------|
---1------1-1--3---1-------1----------------1----------1--0---|
-2-2----2----------------2---------0----0-4-0--2-------2--0---|
-2----2----------------3-------3------2--------5-4------------| x2
-0---------------------------------3-----------5---5----------|
-----------------1---1---1---1-------------------------1--3---|
Riff
Am F C Dsus4 D F G
----0-------------1-------0----------------------------------|
----1-------1h3---1--3p1--1-------1----------1--0------------|
----2---0h2-------2-------0---0-4-0--2-2-----2--0------------|
-2------3---------3---------2--------5-4---------------------| X2
-0------------------------3-------3--5-5---5-----------------|
--------1------------------------------------1--3------------|
Verse (strum chords)
Am F
The imitation picks you up like a habit
C Dsus4 D F G
Writing in the glow of the TV's static
Am F
Taking out the trash to the man
C Dsus4 D F G
Give the people something they understand
Am F
A stickman flashing a fine-line smile
C Dsus4 D F G
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style
Am F
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
C Dsus4 D F G
The permanent installment of the daily dose
(Riff)
Am F
And you tell off when you tell it like it is
C Dsus4 D F G
Your world's no wider than your hatred of his
Am F
Checking into a small reality
C Dsus4 D F G
Boring as a drug you take too regularly
Am F
The athelete's laugh, the broken crutch
C Dsus4 D F G
The first true love that folded at the slightest touch
Am F
Brought down like an old hotel
C Dsus4 D F G
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell
A G
"Happy Holidays," said sick saviour
A C/F G/B G
The leaving lover I still favour
A
I won't take your medicine
G
I don't need a remedy
A C/F G/B G
To be everything I'm supposed to be
A
I don't want nobody else
G
I can do it by myself
A C G/B G
We're meant to be together
A G
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-2--------------2---------------------------------------|
-2------2---------4--2----------0-----0-----------------|
----2-----2---2-2-0--2-------0----0------3--2-----------|
-0----------4---0----4----2---------2-------------------|
--------------------------3-----------3-----------------|
Am Am/C G/D G C/F G/D G G#dim
------------------------3--------0---------0-------0------------------------|
-----1--------1--------------------3---------3-------3-------3--------------|
-------2--------2-----0---0----0---------5-------5---------0---0----0---0---|
---2--------2-------0------------------3-------3---------0------------------|
-0--------3-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------3------------------------------------3---4-----|
(riff)
Am F
Now I'm a policeman directing traffic
C Dsus4 D F G
Keeping everything moving, everything static
Am F
I'm the hitchhiker you'll recognize passing
C Dsus4 D F G
On your way to some everlasting
Am F C Dsus4 D F G
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
C/F G/B
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--5-- --3--|
--5-- --0--|
--3-- --0--|
--x-- --2--|
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