Show-Biz Blues

 as played on the album Then Play On

tabbed by Kay-Uwe Graw ([email protected]) on the 25th of May 1997


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Playing Notes:

/ - slide up
\ - slide down
p - pull off
s - slide between notes
~ - vibrato

played in Open D (D A D F# A D)


Intro:
D-|-/4~----/4-s-2-s-4-s-7---/9-s-7-s-9-s-12-s-9-s-7---/4-s-2-s-4-s-7-s-4-s-2--|
A-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D-|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|



Riff:
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|-------------------------------------------|
|-0------0----0-0-----0--0----0-0-----0--0--|
|-0------0----0-0-----0--0----0-0-----0--0--|
|-0-h-2--0----0-0-h-2-0--0----0-0-h-2-0--0--|
|-0------0----0-0-----0--0----0-0-----0--0--|


Chords:

    D    G
|--12----5--|
|--12----5--|
|--12----5--|
|--12----5--|
|--12----5--|
|--12----5--|



Riff
Tell me anybody,
do you really give a damn for me

                        D  G
I say, tell me anybody,     
do you really give a damn for me

Riff                                G 
Oh, 'Cause, I just got to tell you,  
about a thing that bothering me


Riff
I was a ramblin' pony, I was rollin',
I was rollin', I was rollin' from town to town

                       D
I was a ramblin' pony,
I was rollin' from town to town

Riff                               D G
Yes, just looking for sweet woman,

                                  Riff
I'm making my love come on down


1st solo:
  (several times    )       (              repeat two times               )
|---------------------------/12-12-12-12-12\-0-0-0---/12-12-12-12-12-0-0-0--|
|---------------------------/12-12-12-12-12\-0-0-0---/12-12-12-12-12-0-0-0--|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------0----------0--------------------------------------------------------|
|-0-h-2---2--0-h-2----------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|



|--/7-/9-/12--/9-\7---/9-\7-\4--4-s-2-p-0----/7-/9-/12--/9-\7---/9-\7--/4---|
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|-----------12--10--12\----------------------------12--10--12\--0-/12-0-/3--|
|-----------12--10--12\----------------------------12--10--12\--0-/12-0-/3--|
|-0-12--10--12--10--12\---0-/3--0--/3----0-12--10--12--10--12\--0-/12-0-/3--|
|-0-12--10----------------0-/3--0--/3----0-12--10---------------------------|
|-0-12--10----------------0-/3--0--/3----0-12--10---------------------------|
|-0-12--10----------------0-/3--0--/3----0-12--10---------------------------|



|--------------------|
|-0--/5~---5-s-3--0--|
|-0--/5~---5-s-3--0--|
|-0--/5~---5-s-3--0--|
|-0--/5~---5-s-3--0--|
|--------------------|


Riff
If I need anybody,
baby I would take ya home with me

                   D G
If I need anybody,     baby I would take ya,
baby I would take ya, baby I would take you home with me

Riff                         D G
Oh, but I don't need nobody,
I don't need anybody but him and me


Riff
And you're sittin' there so green, believe me man,
I'm just the same as you

                                      D G
I said, you're sittin there so green,
believe me man, I'm just the same as you

Riff                    D                          G
You want me to make a laugh, cry or to satisfy her
And that's exactly what I mean to do

2nd solo:
|-/12----------------------------------------------/12--10---12--10--/12----|
|-/12----------------------------------------------/12--10---12--10--/12----|
|-/12--10---12--10--0-/12---0-/12-s-3--0--/3~----0-/12--10---12--10--/12----|
|-/12--10---12--10--0-/12---0-/12-s-3--0--/3~----0-/12--10---12--10--/12----|
|------10---12--10--0-/12---0-/12-s-3--0--/3~----0--------------------------|
|------10---12--10--0-/12---0-/12-s-3--0--/3~----0--------------------------|



|-12-s-3-------------/12--10---/12--10--12---12\--0---/12--10--12-----------|
|-12-s-3-------------/12--10---/12--10--12---12\--0---/12--10--12-----------|
|-12-s-3--0--/3~---0-/12--10---/12--10--12---12\--0---/12--10--12-----------|
|-12-s-3--0--/3~---0-/12--10---/12--10--12---12\--0---/12--10--12-----------|
|---------0--/3~---0--------------------------------------------------------|
|---------0--/3~---0--------------------------------------------------------|
                                                                  etc. etc.


|-/7~-(-s-2-p-0)--/9-s-7--s--2-p-0--/4-s-2-s-4-s-7~---\--|
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