# 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. # # Artist: The New Pornographers Album: Brill Bruisers Song: Backstairs tabber: John Baer ([email protected]) tabbed on 09/02/2014 (INTRO VERSE: ELO voice and snyths): G#m B Bbm "Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs, G# G#, G#m taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs" B Bbm "Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs, G# taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs" (VERSE:) G# G#m Before I knew, to chose the music of celebrity B Bbm G# C# I sang backups on the backstairs, the backstairs, G# the backstairs (taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs) G# G#m I wore out grooves, sneaking around the servants quarters, oh B Bbm G# So I knew my way around the backstairs (CHORUS:) B F# G# There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous B F# G# There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us B F# C# And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive... (BREAK 1): G#, G#m, B, Bbm, G# (VERSE:) G# G#m I move so slow, I didn't know that I was backing out B Bbm G# It was getting backed out on the backstairs C# G# The backstairs, the backstairs (BREAK 2): B, G#, B, G#... (BRIDGE:) B (F#) G# And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won B (F#) G# And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won C#m (F#) G# G# And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won.......(buildup to a pause) (CHORUS:) B F# G# There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous B F# G# There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us B F# C# And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive... B F# C# And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive... (OUTRO:) G# G#m Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs B Bbm G# (And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/ taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, G#m G# Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs B Bbm G# (And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/ taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, G# G#m Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs B Bbm G# (I knew my way around the backstairs) (....fade out) Cheers, and Buy Mass Romantic, Electric Version, Twin Cinema, Challengers, Together, and BRILL BRUISERS! www.thenewpornographers.com John Baer
