Band:  Common Children
Song:  'Delicate Fade'
Album:  Delicate Fade
Copyright:  New Tattoo Music/BMI 1997
Tabbed by:  Wes Marlan
Email:  guitarwez@hotmail.com

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Thanks to Micah Loffer <mrmcjsd@shtc.net> for some chord name help...

Standard Tuning
Chords used:

 Asus2-(X02200)     F#5-(244XXX)    B5-(X24422)
 Bsus4-(X24400)     G#5-(466XXX)   C#5-(X46644)
 C#m7- (X46600)      E5-(X799XX)    A5-(x022XX)
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Intro:  Asus2 Bsus4 Asus2 C#m7
        Asus2 Bsus4 F#5(slide to)G#5
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Verse:

  Asus2        Bsus4         Asus2
Ring a ring around the rosie, 

  C#m7                  Asus2 Bsus4 Asus2 F#5
Got a pocket full of smiles.

  Asus2                 Bsus4             Asus2
Take all the lies you could have told me, 

  C#m7           Asus2  Bsus4  
Dress them up in style.

(pick B5)
I find myself adrift on a frozen sea, 

(pick C#5)                       Asus2  Bsus4         
The tears of time melting into me.

(pick B5)
I throw myself in the arms of a memory,

(pick C#5)                    Asus2  Bsus4  Asus2  F#5
I light a candle and try to see.

(Repeat verse chords…)
Ring a ring around the rosie,
On the playground for a while.
Break all the threads of life that hold me,
Falling down in style.

I find myself adrift on a frozen sea,
The tears of time melting into me.
I throw myself in the arms of a memory,
I light a candle and try to see.

Chorus:

   B5           C#5         E5
That's how the stars all burned out,

   B5           C#5         E5
And the sky just flew away.

   B5           C#5         E5
That's when the stars all burned out,

   B5           C#5         A5   E5
On this the delicate fade

   B5           C#5         A5  
On this the delicate fade.
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Bridge:

e-----0-------0---
B---0---0---0---0-  with an occasional F# or G# on the high e
G-2-------2-------

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Repeat Chorus
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then…

(heavy distortion)

   B5            C#5                        E5
Like water it's all slipping through my hands.
   
   B5        C#5                   E5             
Forever our lives erode with the sands.  (fade out fade out)

   B5            C#5                        E5
Like water it's all slipping through my hands.

   B5        C#5                   E5
Forever our lives erode with the sands.  (fade out fade out)

Outro:  
   Asus2         Bsus4       Asus2
Ring a ring around the rosie,
          C#m7               Asus2
Got a pocket full of smiles.
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--Another stellar tune from CC.  Marc may have used a 
different tuning (he usually does) for this song.  But for 
the most part, these chords are consistent with the CD.
Corrections welcomed.

(Words by Marc Byrd  Copyright 1997 New Tattoo Music/BMI)