________________________
/ /
/ Father John Misty /
/ Fear Fun /
/________________________/
Since I now happen to have transcribed most of the songs separately, and have just done
the 'I Love You, Honeybear' album tab, I might as well complete this album tab too...
Jon Sebastian Frederiksen - 19th /February /15
Just mail me at [email protected] with questions, comments and corrections!
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LAYOUT
If you wish to print all this, it is designed to be copy-pasted into Microsoft Word,
font Courier New, size 9.
And, for your own sake, please turn off that ridiculous "highlight chords" function.
THE ACOUSTIC GUITAR
Be default, Josh has his acoustic guitar tuned down one whole step or 2 semi-tones,
that is, from standard tuning (E A D G B e), down to (D G C F A d).
To get a richer sound in this low tuning, you can put thicker strings on your guitar.
Thicker strings simply voice the lower register clearer.
THE CHORDS
Josh sticks to the repertoire of basic guitar chords. So anything more complicated
than that occurs when he uses capo or alternative tunings. As always, this creates
the problem of translation between the key relative to the capo and the absolute key.
In other words, if the tuned-down guitar plays an Em chord-shape (its relative key),
the actual key is effectively D minor (the absolute key). For this tab, I could
notate things either way. The relative way would satisfy the guitarist; the absolute
way would satisfy everyone else.
I have chosen to notate things mainly in absolute key, since I believe it is the
player of any instrument's responsibility to know his actual chord names regardless
of capo or alternative tunings; hence it is the guitarist's responsibility to call
his Em chord-shape a 'Dm' when he has tuned his guitar a whole step down.
Another thing worth a notice is Josh's chord voicings, which are not always chosen
by the book. I dare say that some of them are even chosen ill-advised, for example
his Bb (332010) where the lowest note, being the fifth, disturbs the root-note
orientation of the chord. If it were up to my more schooled judgement, I would advise
you to play it as (x32010) and always trust your ears for picking a better voicing.
THE NOTATION
Josh Tillman's main musical instrument is his acoustic guitar play, strumming basic
chords, and the band arrangements are centered around this. So, to get to the bottom
of the songs, it is obvious to begin where Josh does - with bars of guitar chords.
And indeed, the music always does fit neatly into bars. I hope this notation works
pretty intuitively for you.
One "bar" is simply the time passing during every 4 beats (when the time is 4/4).
Usually every bar matches up with one chord, and that is the neat logic behind it.
I use two different notations for bars - a simple and a more detailed one:
| E | E
+=---=---=---=---+
When there are distinct and clear strumming patterns, I will include those.
Otherwise, just listen to the record and strum along, carefree as he does.
For good measure, I will include this basic information at the top of each song:
key: Indicates the general tonal key of the song.
time: Indicates the time signature of the song, always 4/4 (including half bars).
tempo: Indicates the speed/tempo of the song.
For example, "Q=105 bpm" means "Quarter notes equal to 105 beats per minute"
TRACK LIST
All songs composed by Josh Tillman.
1. Funtimes in Babylon
2. Nancy From Now On
3. Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
4. I'm Writing a Novel
5. O I Long to Feel Your Arms around Me
6. Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2
7. Only Son of a Ladies Man
8. This is Sally Hatchet
9. Well, You Can Do It without Me
10. Now I'm learning to Love the War
11. I Went to the Store One Day
12. Everyman Needs a Companion
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1. _______________________
/ /
/ Funtimes in Babylon /
/_______________________/
key: E major
time: 4/4, shuffled
tempo: Q=105 bpm
There 2 acoustic guitars playing on this track:
-1st guitar is tuned in open D (D A D F# A D) + capo on 2nd fret.
Josh also plays on this for solo shows.
E F#m7 B7(1) B7(2) Am A E/G#
oooooo __o_oo xo__oo xo___o xo__oo o_o_oo _ooooo
|||||| |||●|| |||●|| :::::: |||||| |||●|| ||||||
|||||| ●●|||| ||●||| 5||●||| |||||| |●|||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||●●| |||●|| |||||| ●|||||
||●|||
-2nd guitar is tuned in standard tuning + capo on 2nd fret.
This only seems to appear as backing on the album version.
E F#m7 B7 Am A E/G#
xoo___ o__o_o xo_o_o x_oo_x __ooox _oo__x
|||||| |||||| |||||| |●|||| |||||| ||||||
|||●|● |●●||| ||●|●| |||||| |●|||| ●||●||
||||●| ||||●| |||||| ||||●| ●||||| ||||●|
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('%' = same chord as the last one)
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FOREPLAY
E % % %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
VERSE 1
F#m7 % % %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
1. Fun times in
2. Fun times in
B7(1) % % %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Babylon That's what I'm
Babylon Momma, they've
F#m7 % % %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
counting on
just begun
(2/4)
E % F#m7 % 3x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
1. Before the dam goes up at the foot of the sea
Before the new wing of the prison ribbon ceremony
Before the star of the morning comes looking for me
2. Before they put me to work in a government camp
Before they do my face up like a corpse and say "Get up and dance!"
Before the beast comes looking for last year's rent
CHORUS 1
Am B7(2) E F#m7 % 3x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
I would like to abuse my lungs
Smoke everything in sight with every girl I've ever loved
Ride around my wreckage on a horse knee-deep in mud
A E/G# B7(1) E E %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Look out, Hollywood, here I come
VERSE 2
(similar to the previous one)
CHORUS 2
(similar to previous one, except the last line is replaced with the following)
A E/G# B7(1) E E 2x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
Look out, Hollywood, here I come
Look out, Hollywood, here I come
A E/G# B7(1) E
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=...
Look out, Hollywood, here I come
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2. _____________________
/ /
/ Nancy from Now On /
/_____________________/
key: F major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=108 bpm
The acoustic guitar is tuned one full step down (D G C F A D).
F G7 C7 Dm F(#5) A7 Gm7
_xooo_ xo_o_o xoo___ o__ooo _x_oo_ x_____ xo_o_o
|||||| |||||| ||||●| |||||| ||●||| |||||| ||||●|
|||||| ||●|●| |||●|● |●●||| |||||| |●╪●╪● ||●|||
●||||● |||||| |||||| |||||| ●||||● |||||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||●|●| ||||||
Alternatively, he tunes the guitar in the open C6-tuning (C G C E A C).
This tuning does indeed add some folk-ish flavors of notes to the chords.
F G7 C7 Dm F(#5) A7 Gm7
_xooo_ xo___o oooo_o ____ox ______ x__oox xo___o
:::::: |||●|| ||||●| |||●|| :::::: ||●||| |||●●|
5●●●●●● ||●|●| |||||| ●●●||| 5●╪●●●● |●|||| ||●|||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |●|||| |||||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||●||| |||||| ||||||
||||●|
The general strumming pattern:
4/4
+ + + +
|3-3---3-3-3---3-|
|0-0-S-0-0-0-S-0-|
|0-0-L-0-0-0-L-0-|
|0-0-A-0-0-0-A-0-|
|x---P-------P---|
|3-3---3-3-3---3-|
- = same chord again
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Intro: | F | F | F | F |
Verse: | F | - | - | - |
| G7 | - | C7 | - |
| Dm | - | G7 | - |
| C7 | - | - | - |
| F | - |
" oh, pour me another drink
And punch me in the face
You can call me Nancy
Every man wears a symbol
And I know I have mine
I've got my right hand stamped
in the concentration camp
where my organs scream "Slow down, man!"
Chorus 1: | F | - | F(#5) | - |
| A7 | - | G7 | G7 C7 |
| F | - |
" ooh, how was I to know
that milk and honey flow
just a couple states below
| F | - | F(#5) | - |
| A7 | - | Gm7 | A7 |
| Gm7 | Gm7 C7 | F | - |
" ooh...
Verse: (similar to the previous one)
" oh, hook me up to the tank
and roll me to the door
I'm going where my body leads me
I can fend for myself
with what looks I have left
I'll put away a few
And pretty soon
I'll be breaking things like Howard Hughes
Chorus 2: | F | - | F(#5) | - |
| A7 | - | G7 | G7 C7 |
| F | - |
" ooh, how was I to know
milk and honey flow
just a couple states below
| F | - | F(#5) | - |
| A7 | - | Gm7 | - |
| C7 | - | C7 | - |
| F | - |
" ooh, give me how it was
a place under the sun
before the Devil made me run
Run boy
Run boy
| F | - | F(#5) | - |
| A7 | - | Gm7 | A7 |
| Gm7 | Gm7 C7 | F | - |, end on F ...
" ooh...
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3. ____________________________________
/ /
/ Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings /
/____________________________________/
key: F# minor
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=94 bpm
Standard tuning
Capo on 2nd fret
[INTRO]
4/4
|----------------|--------------x-|
|----------------|--------------2-|
|---drum---------|--------------2-|
|---beat---------|--------------2-|
|----------------|--------------0-|
|----------------|----------------|
(2/4)
B D F#m E A
|x-------------o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-3---3-o-|
|2---2-----2-2-o-|1---1-o-|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-0---0-o-|
|2---2-----2-2-o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-0---0-o-|
|2---2-----2-2-o-|2---2-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-0---0-o-|
|0---0-----0-0-o-|3---3-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-x-----o-|
|--------------o-|3---3-o-|0---0-------0-o-|------o-3---3-o-|
D
|0-----------0-0-|------------0-0-|------------0-o-|
|1-----------1-1-|------------1-1-|------------1-o-|
|0-----------0-0-|------------0-0-|------------0-o-|
|2-----------2-2-|------------2-2-|------------2-o-|
|3-----------3-3-|------------3-3-|------------3-o-|
|3-----------3-3-|------------3-3-|------------3-o-|
(The notation at the end of the bars (6x "o") notates that noisy upstroke,
on all the open strings, in the switching from one chord to the next, which
is used deliberately here for that lovely noisy sound.)
[PART A1]
(2/4)
B D F#m E A D
|x-------------o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-3---3-o-|0---0-------0-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|1---1-o-|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-0---0-o-|1---1-------1-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|2---2-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-0---0-o-|2---2-------2-o-|
|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-x-----o-|3---3-------3-o-|
|--------------o-|3---3-o-|0---0-------0-o-|------o-3---3-o-|3---3-------3-o-|
1. Jesus Christ, girl What are people gonna think
2. Jesus Christ, girl It hasn't been long so it seems
3. Jesus Christ, girl I laid up for hours in a daze
(2/4)
B D F#m E A
|x-------------o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-3---3-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|1---1-o-|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-0---0-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-0---0-o-|
|2---2-------2-o-|2---2-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-0---0-o-|
|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-x-----o-|
|--------------o-|3---3-o-|0---0-------0-o-|------o-3---3-o-|
When I show up to one of several funerals, I've attended for grandpa this week
Since I was picking out an island and a tomb for you, At the Hollywood Cemetery
Retracing the expanse of your American back, With Adderall and weed in my veins
D
|0-----------0-0-|------------0-0-|------------0-o-|
|1-----------1-1-|------------1-1-|------------1-o-|
|0-----------0-0-|------------0-0-|------------0-o-|
|2-----------2-2-|------------2-2-|------------2-o-|
|3-----------3-3-|------------3-3-|------------3-o-|
|3-----------3-3-|------------3-3-|------------3-o-|
With you With me
You kiss On me
You came I think
[PART B1]
(2/4)
C#7 D A
|x-------------o-|0---0-x-|----3-------3-o-|
|0---0---0---0-o-|1---1-0-|----0-------0-o-|
|2---2---2---2-o-|0---0-0-|----0-------0-o-|
|1---1---1---1-o-|2---2-0-|----0-------0-o-|
|2---2---x---x-o-|3---3-x-|--------------o-|
|--------2---2-o-|3---3-3-|----3-------3-o-|
1. Someone's gotta help me dig
2. We should let this dead guy sleep
3. 'Cause the marble made my cheeks look pink
(2/4)
C#7 D A
|x-------------o-|0---0-x-|----3-------3-3-|----3-3---3-3---|
|0---0---0---0-o-|1---1-0-|----0-------0-0-|----0-0---0-0---|
|2---2---2---2-o-|0---0-0-|----0-------0-0-|----0-0---0-0---|
|1---1---1---1-o-|2---2-0-|----0-------0-0-|----0-0---0-0---|
|2---2---x---x-o-|3---3-x-|----------------|----------------|
|--------2---2-o-|3---3-3-|----3-------3-3-|----3-3---3-3---|
Someone's gotta help me dig
We should let this dead guy sleep
But I'm unsure of so many things
[PART A2]
[PART B2]
[PART A3]
[PART B3]
[PART C]
(2/4)
Bm D F#m E A
|x-------------o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-3---3-o-|----------------:
|1---1-------1-o-|1---1-o-|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-0---0-o-|----C-----------:
|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-|0---0-------0-o-|2---2-o-0---0-o-|----L-----------:
|2---2-------2-o-|2---2-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-0---0-o-|----A-----------:
|0---0-------0-o-|3---3-o-|2---2-------2-o-|0---0-o-x-----o-|----P-----------:
|--------------o-|3---3-o-|0---0-------0-o-|------o-3---3-o-|----------------:
ooh...
[DRUMS INTERLUDE]
The drums play 3 + 4 + 4 bars. The noise builds up during the last 4 bars.
[INTRO]
[OUTRO]
(2/4)
C#7 D A
|x-------------o-|0---0-x-|----3-------3-o-|
|0---0---0---0-o-|1---1-0-|----0-------0-o-|
|2---2---2---2-o-|0---0-0-|----0-------0-o-| repeat
|1---1---1---1-o-|2---2-0-|----0-------0-o-| this line
|2---2---x---x-o-|3---3-x-|--------------o-|
|--------2---2-o-|3---3-3-|----3-------3-o-|
Someone's got to help me dig
(2/4)
C#7 D A
|x-------------o-|0---0-x-|----:
|0---0---0---0-o-|1---1-0-|----:
|2---2---2---2-o-|0---0-0-|----: end here
|1---1---1---1-o-|2---2-0-|----: abruptly
|2---2---x---x-o-|3---3-x-|----:
|--------2---2-o-|3---3-3-|----:
Someone's got to help me dig
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4. _______________________
/ /
/ I'm Writing a Novel /
/_______________________/
key: F major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=165 bpm
The acoustic guitar is tuned down one full step (D G C F A D).
F F7 Bb C7 Dm
_xooo_ _x_oo_ ___o_o xoo___ o__ooo
|||||| |||||| ||||●| ||||●| ||||||
|||||| |||||| ||●||| |||●|● |●●|||
●||||● ●|●||● ●●|||| |||||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This song is basically the 7 verses based on this simple 16 bars-structure:
| F | - | F | - |
| F7 | - | F7 | - |
| Bb | - | Bb | - |
| F | - | F | - |
At the end of verses 3, 6, 7, this 8 bars-tail is added:
| C7 | - | Dm | - |
| F | - | F | - |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Throughout the song, the electric guitar panned left plays these typical
blues rhythm figures. This can be heard clearly on this performance:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNu_GJ_PSZY)
standard tuning
capo 3rd fret
F / F7 - Bb
|----------------|----------------| |----------------|----------------|
|--------------1-|--1-------------| |0---0---0---0-0-|--0-0---0---0---|
|2---4---2---4-2-|--2-4---2---4---| |0---0---0---0-0-|--0-0---0---0---|
|0---0---0---0-0-|--0-0---0---0---| |0---2---0---2-3-|--3-2---0---2---|
|----------------|----------------| |x---------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------| |3---------------|----------------|
C7 Dm
:---0----:---2----:
:---2----:---3----: Just strum these
:---0----:---4----: chords regularly.
:---2----:---4----:
:---0----:---2----:
:--------:--------:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
F F F
I ran down the road, pants down to my knees
F7 F7
Screaming "please come help me, that Canadian shaman gave a little too much to me!"
Bb Bb
And I'm writing a novel
F F
Because it's never been done before
F F
First house that I saw I wrote house up on the door
F7 F7
And told the people who lived there they had to get out "Cause my reality is realer than yours"
Bb Bb
And there's no time in the present
F F
And there's a black dog on the bed
F F
I went to the backyard to burn my only clothes
F7 F7
And the dog ran out and said "You can't turn nothing into nothingness with me no more"
Bb Bb
Well I'm no doctor
F F
but that monkey might be right
C7 Dm
And if he is
F F F
I'll be walking him my whole life
F F
I rode to Malibu on a dune buggy with Neil
F7 F7
He said "You're gonna have to drown me down on the beach if you ever want to write the real"
Bb Bb
And I said "I'm sorry,
F
young man, what is your name again?"
F F
Now everywhere I go in West Hollywood
F7 F7
It's filled with people pretending they don't see the actress, and the actress wishing that they could
Bb Bb
We could do Ayahuasca
F F
Baby if I wasn't holding all these drinks
F F
Something 'bout the way Violet whips her hair
F7 F7
That makes me empty my pockets holding court on the corner burning twenties as if I was the mayor
Bb Bb
I don't need any new friends, Momma
F F
But I could really use something to do
C7 Dm
So if you're up for it sometimes
F F F F
I swear you wouldn't have to be my muse
F F
Heidegger and Sartre, drinking poppy tea
F7 F7
I could've sworn last night I passed out in my van and now these guys are pouring one for me
Bb Bb
I'll never leave the canyon,
F F
'cause I'm surrounded on all sides
C7 Dm
By people writing novels
F F7
and living on amusement rides
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5. ________________________________________
/ /
/ O I Long to Feel Your Arms around Me /
/________________________________________/
key: D major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=88 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar in an open D6-tuning (D A D F# B D).
G6 F#m Em7 D A7sus4 G
______ ____oo ____oo oooo_o xo___o x_o__o
:::::: |||||| |||●|| |||||| |||●|| |||●||
5●●●●●● |||||| ●●●||| |||||| ||●||| |●||||
|||||| |||●|| |||||| ||||●| ||||●| ||||●|
|||||| ●●●||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
% = same chord again
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FOREPLAY
4/4 (2/4)
G6 F#m Em7 % 2x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
VERSE
(2/4)
G6 F#m Em7 % 2x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
" Everyone's riding on the rolling tide
Their hearts are heavy and the sea is wide
(2/4)
G6 F#m Em7 F#m Em7 D
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
I'll never make it to the other side, friends of mine
G6 %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
CHORUS
(2/4)
A7sus4 % G D %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Oh, I long to feel your arms around me
(2/4)
A7sus4 % G D % F#m
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Oh, I long to feel your arms around me Oh, my love
Em7 F#m Em7 D G6 %
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Oh, my love
ENDING
(2/4)
A7sus4 % G D % 2x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
ooh...
G6 F#m Em7 D
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=...
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6. ____________________________
/ /
/ Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2 /
/____________________________/
key: A minor
time: 4/4, shuffled
tempo: Q=94 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar down one full step (D G C F A D)
and puts capo on the 2nd fret.
You might as well then just stay in standard tuning without capo.
C Am C/G Fmaj7 G7 Em D7
x__o_o xo___o _x_o_o x____o _xooo_ o__ooo xoo___
||||●| ||||●| ||||●| ||||●| |||||| |||||| ||||●|
||●||| ||●●|| ||●||| |||●|| |||||| |●●||| |||●|●
|●|||| |||||| ●||||| |●●||| ●||||● |||||| ||||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
– = same chord again
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A: | C | - | - | - |
These are the guitar lines in this part A, played by two separate guitars:
(This is notated for standard tuning.)
C C C C
|----12b13--r12----|------------------|----12b13--r12----|------------------|
|------------------|-------------13---|------------------|------------------|
|----12b14--r12----|14---12-14--------|----12b14--r12----|14---12-14b17-----|
|------------------|12---10-12---14---|------------------|12---10-10--------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B: | Am | C/G | Fmaj7 | - |
| Am | C/G | Fmaj7 | - |
" No crickets, no creatures are a stirring
On the last night of the Chinese year
C: | C | - | G7 | - |
| C | - | G7 | - |
" I need a warm hand
over the water
Ever since I lost mine
Fireworks disaster
D: | Am | Em | D7 | - |
| Am | Em | D7 | - |
| D7 | - |
" ooh
I laid up wide awake
Gonna take my life
Gonna take my life back one day
A
B
" Now I'm watching you changing in the mirror
And I'm unable to move
C
" When all my girlfriends
appear in the doorway
I don't know how they got here
I don't know what to say about this
D
" ooh
And they all go that way
Gonna take my life
Gonna take my life back one day
Ending: | C | - | - |
||: Am | Em | D7 | - :|| repeat through fade out
The guitar parts in the Ending end a bit differently:
C C C Am
|----12b13--r12----|------------------|----12b13--r12--16|b17---:
|------------------|-------------13---|------------------|------:
|----12b14--r12----|14---12-14--------|----12b14--r12----|------:
|------------------|12---10-12---14---|----------------12|b14---:
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------:
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------:
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7. __________________________
/ /
/ Only Son of Ladies Man /
/__________________________/
key: F major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=79 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar one full step down (D G C F A D).
F Bb/F Bb Dm
_xooo_ _x_o_o ___o_o o__ooo
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|||||| ||●||| ||●||| |●●|||
●||||● ●||||| ●●|||| ||||||
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Despite having only three and a half chords in it, this song has a fairly
tricky strumming pattern and overall rhythmic structure, because of all its
half bars (2/4) and extra bars of F, which are quite hard to memorize.
This is the strumming pattern for all the full bars of 4/4:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
|3-----3-3---3-----3-3---3---3-3-|
|0-----0-0---0-----0-0---0---0-0-|
|0-----0-0---0-----0-0---0---0-0-|
|0-----0-0---0-----0-0---0---0-0-|
|x-------------------------------|
|3-----3-3---3-----3-3---3---3-3-| v = down-stroke
v ^ v v ^ v v v ^ ^ = up-stroke
Whenever there is a half bar (2/4), play sort of the first half of the pattern:
1 + 2 +
|3-----3-3---3-3-|
|1-----1-1---1-1-|
|0-----0-0---0-0-|
|2-----2-0h2-2-2-|
|x---------------|
|3-----3-3---3-3-|
v ^ v v ^
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INTRO
F F
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
VERSE 1
(2/4)
F Bb/F F 4x F
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+ +=---=---=---=---+
When I heard the ladies' man was dead
I saw the rolling stone stopped moving
Saw my ancient hero on the Sunset Strip
He left behind a legacy of ruin
VERSE 2
(2/4)
F Bb/F F 4x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
Now painted ladies want to hold my gun
Wonder if the whole time if I'd been acting
When I sang "Moon River" in that silent film
Had I really made a sound when they called action
BRIDGE
(2/4)
Bb Dm F Dm 2x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
Bb Dm Bb Dm
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Bb Bb F
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
I swear that man was womankind's first husband
They all died in a line to save him
I'm a steady hand, I'm a Dodger's fan
I'm a leading brand of a one night stand
I'm a ladies' man
CHORUS
(2/4)
Dm Bb F 2x F
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+ +=---=---=---=---+
ooh / Only son of the ladies' man
ooh / Only son of the ladies' man
VERSE 3
(2/4)
F Bb/F F 4x F
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+ +=---=---=---=---+
Couldn't see his used up body at the funeral
By virtue of the flailing of his conquests
They tied down his casket with the garter belt
Each troubled heart was beating in a sequin dress
VERSE 4
(2/4)
F Bb/F F 5x
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+
Someone must console these lonesome daughters
No written word or ballad will appease them
The cowboy and the cop shot down the ladies' man
The humid nights in L.A. are now silence
(These nights I hear a whole lot less moaning
These nights I hear a whole lot less groaning)
I swear that man was womankind's first husband
CHORUS
(2/4)
Dm Bb F 4x F
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+ +=---=---=...
ooh / Only son of the ladies' man
ooh / Only son of the ladies' man
ooh / Only son of the ladies' man
ooh
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8. _________________________
/ /
/ This Is Sally Hatchet /
/_________________________/
key: Ab major
time: 4/4, shuffled
tempo: Q=144 bpm
As always, Josh tunes his acoustic guitar one full step down (D G C F A D).
He then puts capo on the 3rd fret.
You could also just remain in standard tuning and put capo on the 1st fret.
C7 Db Ab G7 Cm F Eb7 Fm
x___ox ___o_o _xooo_ ______ x_____ o___oo xxo___ o__ooo
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|●|●|| ||●||| |||||| ●╪●╪●● |●╪╪╪● |●●||| |||●|● |●●|||
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
REFRAIN: | C7 | Db | Ab | Ab |
| C7 | Db | Ab | Ab |
| G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 |
The electric guitar plays this Beatles-esque
riff every time those 4 bars of G7 appear:
G7 G7 G7 G7
|--3-3---|3-3-----|--3-3---|3-3-----|
|--6-6---|6-6-----|--6-6---|6-6-----|
|--4-4---|4-4-----|--4-4---|4-4-----|
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
Notice that screaming
electric guitar strum:
VERSE-1: | Cm | F | Db | G7 | G7* | G7*
| Db | Db | Db | G7 | C7 | |----6---|
| F | Db | Db | |----3---|
|----4---|
| G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 | |--------|
|--------|
" Born the daughter of a comedian |--------|
Middle of the eighties
Someone turn that awful mouth-breathing down
Or else "
VERSE-2
" Sally Hatchet lives in a hole in the ground
The longer it keeps raining
The more she has to struggle to maintain a wonderful time
Oh yeah "
BRIDGE: | Eb7 | Eb7 | Fm | Db | Db |
| Eb7 | Fm | Db | Db |
| Eb7 | Fm | Db | Db |
| G7 | G7 | G7 | G7 |
" Go on and laugh it up without me
I've got smoke in my lungs
And a past life in the trunk
Oh "
REFRAIN
VERSE-3
" Could he rattle by the way that she empties a few clips out
Do I have a choice now?
Point that thing away from me
Lady
Oh! "
OUTRO: ||: C7 | Db | Ab | Ab :||
Here two electric guitar appear to play this insane climax with tons of vibrato.
This is noted in standard tuning, without capo.
One plays the upper note; one plays the lower note. You could play both at once.
C7 Db Ab Ab
|8~--8~--8~--8~--|8~--8~--8p6-6---|6h8-8~--8~--8~--|8~--8~--8~--8~--|
|8~--8~--8~--8~--|8~--8~--8p6-6---|6h8-8~--8~--8~--|8~--8~--8~--8~--|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
After 4 rounds, both guitars whammy one octave up and continue the part.
You could emulate this by playing the same thing up at the 20th/18th fret.
They guitars whammy back down and back up again, break away and return to this
loony part. These varations are always improvised, so you ought to do the same.
The whole climax lasts for 12 rounds and ends by resting on the Ab chords.
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9. __________________________________
/ /
/ Well, You Can Do It Without Me /
/__________________________________/
key: F major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=105 bpm
This song has all the elements of a typical blues: A simple chord structure,
laidback 4/4, the playing around with dominant 7th chords, the blues scale, etc.
Thus, whenever there is an F chord, feel free to play F7 as the band does.
As always, Josh tunes his acoustic guitar one full step down (D G C F A D).
C7 Bb7 F Bb
xxo___ x____o _xooo_ xo___o
||||●| ||||●| |||||| ||||||
|||●|● ||●||| |||||| ||●●●|
|||||| |●|●|| ●||||● ||||||
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+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
(2/4)
Intro: ||: C7 | Bb7 | F | F :||
A: | F | F | Bb7 | Bb7 |
| F | C7 | F | F |
A
B: | Bb7 | Bb7 | Bb7 | Bb7 |
| C7 | C7 | C7 | C7 |
A
B
A
A (whistling)
Ending: | F | C7 | F Bb | F ...
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
LYRICS
**********
If you see a flaming sword in your dreams at night
And feel inspired to assign me up to the front line
Well, give the order, you'll storm the border without me
If they tell you you're a genius but you need some proof
Ask anybody on the payroll to go out with you
If they avoid you, then they'll award you definitely
Nobody that's around just seems to get it right
How hard is it to follow just a few guidelines
And smile while you do it
If you want a page written 'bout you in the book
But you need a food tester 'cause you cursed the cook
I'll take some wine but you can dine without me
Without me
Who would let you play God and make-believe that all the blasphemy
is coming only from me?
If you're bound for the throne but the king won't die
I can occupy the queen but that's for her and I
I can do her and you'll be ruler without me
(whistling)
Yeah you can do it
But you can do it without me
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10.____________________________________
/ /
/ Now I'm Learning to Love the War /
/____________________________________/
key: G minor
time: 4/4, shuffled
tempo: Q=94 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar down one full step (D G C F A D).
Bb F F7 Gm C7 D7 Gm/F
___o_o _xooo_ _x_oo_ xo___o _xo__o o_o_oo _x___o
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||●||| |||||| |||||| ||●●|| ●||●|| |●|||| ||●●||
●●|||| ●||||● ●|●||● |||||| |||||| |||||| ●|||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
– = same chord again
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Intro: ... Gm | F | F7 |
| Bb | Gm | F | F7 |
| Bb | - |
(The Intro is only an album-thing; it is never played live, where they simply
begin right on the Verse.)
Verse 1: | Bb | - | - | - |
| F | - | F7 | - |
| Gm | - | C7 | - |
| F | - | F7 | - |
" Try not to think so much about
the truly staggering amount
of oil that it takes to make a record
All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining, the high gloss
The tape and the gear
Verse 2
" Try not to become too consumed
with what's a criminal volume
of oil that it takes to paint a portrait
The acrylic, the varnish, aluminum tubes filled with latex
The solvents and dye
Chorus 1: | Gm | - C7 | F | F7 |
| Bb | D7 | Gm | Gm/F |
| C7 | - | F | F7 |
| Bb | - |
" Oh, let's just call this what it is
The gentler side of mankind's death wish
When it's my time to go
Gonna leave behind things that won't decompose
Verse 3
" Try not to dwell so much upon
how it won't be so very long
from now that they laugh at us for selling
a bunch of 15 year-olds made from dinosaur bones singing 'oh yeah'
Again and again
Right up to the end
Chorus 2
" Let's just call this what it is
The gentler side of mankind's death wish
When it's my time to go
Gonna leave behind things that won't decompose
Chorus 3 (End on Bb after the last F7.)
" Oh, I'll just call this what it is
My vanity gone wild with my crisis
One day this all will repeat
I sure hope they make something useful out of me
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11._________________
/ /
/ Tee Pees 1-12 /
/_________________/
key: A major
time: 4/4
tempo: Q=166 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar down one full step (D G C F A D)
and puts capo on the 2nd fret.
You might as well then just stay in standard tuning without capo.
A E D7 E7
xo___o o___oo xxo___ o_o_oo
|||||| |||●|| ||||●| |||●||
||●●●| |●●||| |||●|● |●||||
|||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||
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The song is based around this simple 13-bars blues round.
This is one VERSE.
| A | A | E | E |
| E | E | D7 | A |
| E | E | D7 | A | A |
The other part is this little tail of 4 bars.
This is one INTERLUDE.
| E | E | E7 | E7 |
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INTERLUDE 1
VERSE 1 " Well, you took me to the movies
You took me to the dance
You took me to your warehouse
Tied up in the back of your van
You said whip it out
And I started to shout
I'm in love with the woman again
VERSE 2 " Well, you took me to your office
We went to meet your folks
We went out to the garden shed
Where I took off all my clothes
And I was terrified by the look in your eyes
But there's a lot to loving I don't know
VERSE 3 " Well, you took me to the ceremony
to sweat out all my fear
You came across the cosmic serpent
With pants rolling into his hair
If he's my spirit guide
I'm gonna stay inside
I'm never sleeping in a teepee again
INTERLUDE 2 " No no, no-no-no-no no
VERSE 4 (instrumental)
VERSE 5 " Well, you asked me where I came from
in the middle of round ten
I thanked you for the compliment
before you clarified what you meant
You said: "What the hell are you doing here?
There's a crawler in my apartment!"
VERSE 6 " Trout fishing in America
Made me go and buy a pole
But by the time I got around to reading the book
I was a celebrated deep sea pro
Was drinking Greyhounds
Way below the ground
On my very own TV show
VERSE 7 (play twice the second line of | E | E | D7 | A |)
" Well, we went to get some work done
So our faces finally matched
The doctor took one look at me
And took a skin graft out of my ass
If this is what it takes
It takes you one date
I'm gonna put my member behind glass
If I make it out alive
From Hollywood and Vine
I'll build a cabin up in the Northwest
INTERLUDE 3 " No no, no-no-no-no no
VERSE 8 (instrumental, extended like VERSE 7)
OUTRO | E | E | D7 | A ...
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12.______________________________
/ /
/ Everyman Needs a Companion /
/______________________________/
key: Ab major
time: 4/4, shuffled
tempo: Q=85 bpm
Josh tunes his acoustic guitar down one full step (D G C F A D)
and puts capo on the 3rd fret.
You might as well just stay in standard tuning and put capo on the 1st fret.
INTRO:
4/4 (2/4)
Bbm Bbm/Ab Eb7 Eb7
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
x02210 3x2210 xx0212
(2/4)
Bbm Bbm/Ab Eb7 Eb7sus4
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
xx0213
In the Intro two guitars play this melody. They play their octave each.
This is both melodies, notated for standard tuning without any capo:
Bbm Bbm/Ab Eb7
|--------6-------|--------|----------------|----------------|
|-------6--------|9---11--|8---------------|----------------|
|------6-3-------|--------|----------------|----------------|
|---8---3--------|6---8---|5---------------|----------------|
|------4---------|--------|----------------|----------------|
|---6------------|--------|----------------|----------------|
VERSE 1:
(2/4)
Ab Ab Db/Ab
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+
3x0003 3x2013
"1.Everyman needs a com- panion
2.Everyman needs a com- panion
(2/4)
Ab Ab Db/Ab
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+
Someone to turn his thoughts to
Someone to console him
Ab Ab C7 C7
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
x2120x
I know I do
Like I need you
VERSE 2
CHORUS
Fm C7#5/G Ab7 Db C7 Eb7
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
022000 22100x 3x300x 332010
oooh...
BRIDGE 1
Db Db Ab Db/Ab Ab
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
1.John the Baptist took Jesus Christ
2.Joseph Campbell and The Rolling Stones
Bbm Bbm/Ab Eb7 Eb7
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
Down to the river on a Friday night
Couldn't give me a myth, so I had to write my own
Fm Fm Ab (Db Ab Db Ab)
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=----=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
They talked about Mary like a couple of boys
Like I'm hung up on religion though I know it's a waste
Bbm Bbm/Ab Eb7 Eb7sus4
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
With nothing to lose; too scared to try
I never liked the name Joshua; I got tired of "J" (Everyman man...)
(2/4)
Eb7 Eb7
+=---=---=---=---+=---=---+
(Everyman man...)
VERSE 1
VERSE 2
CHORUS
BRIDGE 2 (Skip the last 1½ bars of Eb7.)
VERSE 2
ENDING-CHORUS:
Fm C7#5/G Ab7 Db 3x C7 Eb7
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---:+ +=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+
oooh...
OUTRO:
(2/4)
Ab Ab Db/Ab
+:=---=---=---=---+=---=---=---=---+=---=---:+ Repeat this line fading out.
This is the slide guitar lick for standard tuning:
Ab Ab
:--13----15----|15/16~-----------|---------------:
:--------------|-----------------|---------------:
:13----15----15|--/17~-----------|---------------:
:--------------|-----------------|---------------:
:--------------|-----------------|---------------:
:--------------|-----------------|---------------:
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