Artist: Chris Robinson
Song: Train Robbers
Album: This Magnificent Distance
Tuning: EADGBE (Standard) with a capo at the 5th fret (album and New Earth Mud live versions) or 2nd fret
(Chris Robinson Brotherhood live versions). The studio version has an acoustic guitar (or two) playing
throughout the song, then an electric that joins during the choruses and solo (playing the rhythm part).
I have included both the acoustic and electric parts in this tab (rhythm only, a separate electric plays both
solos).
NOTE: Most chords in this tab are chord shapes relative to the capo, not the actual pitch of the chords.
The exception being the electric playing during the choruses and solo, which does not have a capo.
Notable chord shapes:
Em(maj7) Em7 Asus2/F#
E----0-------0------0------
B----0-------0------0------
G----0-------0------2------
D----1-------0------2------
A----2-------2------x------
E----0-------0------2------
Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) (repeating, fades in)
Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
I think I'll rob a train
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
And move to South America
Em(maj7) Em Em(maj7)
Wander off in the rain
Asus2/F# B Em
Come off smiling and dry
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
Legend, fortune, and fame
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
I can be the stuff of headlines
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7)
Another household name
Asus2/F# B
To be discarded with time
CHORUS
A B C (play A and B as pickup notes to a full C chord)
C G D
If there's one thing I've learned in this life of crime
C G D
When it's all over split up the money and go your own way
C G D
If you get caught don't say nothing, just stay in line
C G (stop)
Til' your chance comes and you can make your next getaway
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NOTE: There is another guitar in the chorus that plays the following in standard tuning WITH NO CAPO:
E--1----3----3----3--3---3---3---------------------
B--1----1----0----0--0h1-0h1-0--0h1p0--------------
G--2----0----0----0--0---0---0--------0h2p0--------
D--3----2----0-------0h2-0h2-0--------------0h2p0--
A--3----3----2-------------------------------------
E--1---------3-------------------------------------
E--1----3----3----3--3---3---3----3--3--3--
B--1----1----0----0--0h1-0h1-3----3--1--0--
G--2----0----0----0--0---0---0----0--0--0--
D--3----2----0-------0h2-0h2-0----0--2--0--
A--3----3----2-----------------------------
E--1---------3-----------------------------
E--1----3----3----3--3---3---3---------------------
B--1----1----0----0--0h1-0h1-0--0h1p0--------------
G--2----0----0----0--0---0---0--------0h2p0--------
D--3----2----0-------0h2-0h2-0--------------0h2p0--
A--3----3----2-------------------------------------
E--1---------3-------------------------------------
(stop)
E--1----3----3--
B--1----1----1--
G--2----0----0--
D--3----2----2--
A--3----3----3--
E--1------------
On the studio version this guitar does not play during the verses.
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Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) x2
Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
I must admit it's strange
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
These visions of empty ballrooms
Em(maj7) Em7
And the sound of a sad refrain
Asus2/F# B Em
Like a smoke ring floating by
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
But the omen already came
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
In the form of a pear tree
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7)
That grows out of a cave
Asus/F# B
Into a crystal waterfall
CHORUS
SOLO #1 RHYTHM
Repeat these chords x3:
Em F# G
A B C
F# and B are just individual notes, not the full chords.
Then once more with a second ending:
Em F# G
A B C
A B C
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NOTE: The second guitar from the choruses (again, standard tuning with no capo) reappears during the solo with
the following:
Repeat x3:
A B C
D E F
As with the acoustic guitar, the B and E here are individual notes, not full chords.
Then:
A B C
D E F
D E F
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Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) x2
Em Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
And as a child I dreamed
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7) Em
That I was Geronimo
Em(maj7) Em7 Em(maj7)
And all the gifts I received
Asus2/F# B
Were from my enemies and all my friends alike
CHORUS
SOLO #2 RHYTHM
Repeat x7
Em F# G
A B C
Then once more with a second ending:
Em F# G
A B C
A B C
Em
NOTE: Electric guitar is here too, see the first solo rhythm for the chords.
