TALKINGHEADS The Big Country Intro: Guitar 1 play with a slide and let all the notes ring |-------||----------------------------------------|| |-/7----||:------9-----9/12---12-12/14----14/19--:|| |-/7----||--------9-9--9/12---12-12/14----14/19---|| |-/7----||---------9---9/12---12-12/14----14/19---|| |-------||:--------------------------------------:|| |-------||----------------------------------------|| |Guitar 2 | D E G A D |--2----||-------0-------3----3-3-3-----------2---|| |--3----||:------0-------3----3-3-3-----------3--:|| |--2----||-------1-------0----0-0-0--2--------2---|| |--0----||-------2-------0----0-0-0--2--------0---|| |-------||:------2-------2----2-2-2--0-----------:|| |-------||-------0-------3----3-3-3---------------|| Guitar 1 and 2 basically play the same thing throughout the verse... D E I see the shapes, G A I remember from maps. D E I see the shoreline. G A I see the whitecaps. D E G A A baseball diamond, nice weather down there. D E G A I see the school and the houses where the kids are. D E G A Places to park by the fac’tries and buildings. D E G A Restaunts and bar for later in the evening. D E G A Then we come to the farmlands, and the undeveloped areas. D E G A And I have learned how these things work together. D E G A I see the parkway that passes through them all. D E G A And I have learned how to look at these things and I say, Here's the pattern for the Chorus: Guitar 1 (slide) |---------------------------------------------| |-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------| |-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------| |-17-----17\12-----12\10----------------------| |---------------------------------------------| |---------------------------------------------| | |Guitar 2 | C G F |-0---------3---------1----1-0-1-0-1-0---------| |-1---------3---------1----------------1-------| |-0---------0---------2------------------------| |-2---------0---------3------------------------| |-3---------2---------3------------------------| |-----------3---------1------------------------| C G F I wouldn’t live there if you paid me. C G F I couldn’t live like that, no siree! C G F I couldn’t do the things the way those people do. C G F I couldn’t live there if you paid me to. Outro: (While he goes Goo goo ga ga ga) C G F |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| |-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------| |-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------| |-17--17--17-17-17---12--12--12-12-12---10--10--10-10-10----------------| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------------------------| I tabbed this listening to the live version off of The Name of This Band is Talking so it might be a little bit different in some parts from the album version
