From:Travel1054@aol.com
A.
-9--9---7-7--10--9---7--7-slide---9----12-12------9--------------
-10-10--9-9--10--10--9--9-slide--10-10----------9----12----------
------------------------------------11--------9------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
B.
------------9------------------------------------------------
------10------------10-12-------10----10-slide-12----12------
11-11----11---11-11-------11-11----11-11-------13--13---13---
-------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
C.
-------------------------------------------------------
---5---------5-----5----12-12--10-10-slide-12-12-------
-6-----6-6-----6-6------13-13--1--11-------13-13-------
-----7-----7---------7---------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
D.
-----------------------------9---------9--------------(1)-----(12)---------
-------10---------9-------10---10--------9--------10--or-----9-or--[F#m]---
----11----11----9---9--11------------9---------11-----11---9---9--[strum]--
-12----------11--------------------9--------12-----------11-------[bar-8th]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E.
-----7--slide--9---9--9--7--7--10--9--7--7-slide-9------12--12--------
-----9--slide--10--10-10-9-9---10--10-9--9-slide-10--10---------------
-----------------------------------------------------11---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The sequence goes like this
ABBCEBCBCBCBCBCBDDCBCBCBCCDDD (roughly..you'll get the drift)
Walking Andy Rourke bass goes like this:
A1.
A2. (A1 + A2 = A)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------2-2--------------------4-6----------------------------------------------
-----------2-4-2-------2-2-2--------------------4-6---------------4-2---------
-0-0-0-----------0-0-0------------2-2-2--2-2--2------5-5-5-4-4--4-------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------9---------------------
--0-------2-4-6-4------------------0-------2-4-6---4--444-2-4-4-4-4-2--
----4-2-0-----------------2-4-5-2----4-3-0-----------------------------
------------------2-4-5-4----------------------------------------------
A A2 A A A A A B B A A A B B B (slight variation at end)
William, It Was Really Nothing
(Johnny Marr/The Smiths)
From: Travel1054@aol.com (Jim D Lantos)
G7 F#m A D Amaj Gmaj G F#m A D
-7---10---9------9-------10-----------------------------------------------
-7-8------9-10---9-10----10-----------------------------------------------
-7--------9--11--9-------10-11--------------------------------------------
-7-10-----9--11--9-12----10-12--------------------------------------------
-7--------9------9-------10-----------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Repeat above 3x)
G7 G7 Dmaj Amaj Dmaj Amaj
7-------2--------5--------------------------------------------
7-------0--------5-7--7------------5---------------------10---
7-------0--------5-7----7------------6--------------------9---
7-9-----0--------5-7------7------------7-----------------11---
7-------0--------5--------------------------------------------
oh no everybodys....live their
life
Bmaj Bmaj
Dmaj Emaj
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
-(pluck)----------------------(strum)------------
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
God knows..Got to live mine Got knows
Got to live mine
(repeat above 2x)
C G
D A G A
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------13----13----15-13----12--12--12-10-12------15----17-15-14-12-14-
-----------12--------12---------12------12-----------14-------------14-12-14-
-(slide)-14-----14-----14-----12----12------------16-------16-------14-12-14-
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G D G A Bm
B7
--------------7------------7--------------------------
8--10-----10--7-----7------7------7--------------------------
7--11-----9---7---7---7----7----7--7--------------------------
9--12-----11--7-9-------9--7--8------8------------------------
--------------7-9----------7--9-------------------------
--------------7------------7-------------------------------------
Wil Wil It was...
really..
G Dmaj G A Bm B7 D E
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------7-------7------7----------
-----------------------------------7-7-----7-7----7-7------------
--------------------------------------9-------8------7--------
-----------------------------------------------------------
William William It was It was you life
What Difference Does It Make? - The
Smiths (debut album version)
(Morrissey/Marr)
Capo up two frets or tune up two semi tones.
Part 1 - Main Riff
F#---------------------------------------------------------------
C#-----------------------------------------------------3---------
A ---2-------0---2---2-------0---------2-------0---2-----------0-
E -------2---------------2-----------------2-----0---0-----2-----
B -0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0_h_3-3---3---3-----------0---0---
F#---------------------------------------------------------------
Part 2 - "So, what difference does it make?"
F#--------5---------------10----8----8---7-7-7-7----5---5---
C#-x_sl_5-----5---x_sl_10----10---10---9-9-9-9-9--5---5---5-
A ----------4---4----------------------9-9-9-9-9------------
E ----------------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------------
F#----------------------------------------------------------
F#--------5---------------10----8----8---7-7-7-7----5---5---
C#-x_sl_5-----5---x_sl_10----10---10---9-9-9-9-9--5---5---0-
A ----------4---4----------------------9-9-9-9-9------------
E ----------------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------------
F#----------------------------------------------------------
Part 3 - "It makes none, but now you have gone..."
(barre 4th fret with 1st finger)
F#-------------5-4-------------5-4-----------5-4-5-4-
C#-------7---5-----------7---5-----------7---5-5-5-5-
A ---6-----6---------6-----6---------6-----6---------
E -4---4-----------4---4-----------4---4-------------
B ---------------------------------------------------
F#---------------------------------------------------
End Riff #1:
F#----------0------------0-
C#-5_p_3--1-0--5-5_p_3-1-0-
A -5_p_4--2----5-5_p_4-2---
E -------------------------
B -------------------------
F#-------------------------
End Riff #2:
F#------------------------------------12----5_sl_x-
C#-13--12--8-10-10-------13--12--8-10-10----5_sl_x-
A -12--11--7--9--9-------12--11--7--9--9----5_sl_x-
E ------------------------------------------7_sl_x-
B ------------------------------------------7_sl_x-
F#-------------------------------------------------
Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before
From: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
intro:
C - Gm - Eb - F - A - G
C - Gm - Eb - F - A - G
part a:
chords: C - Gm - Eb - F
stop me oh oh oh stop me stop me if you think that you've heard this one before stop me oh oh oh stop me stop me if you think that you've heard this one before nothing's changed i still love you oh i still love you only slightly only slightly less than i used to my love
break: chords: Ab - Cm - Ab - C (with fig1) (hehe)
fig 1:
-----------------------------
----3--3--3-3-3--3-3--3-3--3-
----3--5--5-5-5--5-3--3-3--3-
----3--3--3-3-3--3-3--3-3--3- twice (just listen)
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
verse1: chords: C - Gm - Eb - F
i was delayed i was waylaid an emergency i stop i smelt the last
10 seconds of life and crashed down on the crossbar and the pain was enough
to make a shy bald buddist reflect and plan a mass murder who said i'd
lied to her
who said i'd lied because i never, i never who said i'd lied because
i never.
break: same
verse2: chords same
i was detained i was restrained he broke my spleen he broke my
knees and then he really laid in to (me) friday night in outpatient who
said i'd lied to her who said i'd lied because i never, i never who said
i'd lied because i never.
and so i drank one it became four, and when i fell on the floor
i drank more
break:
part a:
outro:
C - Gm - Eb - F (with fig 2)
C - Gm - Eb - F (with fig 2)
C - Gm - Eb - F - A - G
----------------
----------5----- (think this is right.. play once with each
chord)
----5--7--------
--7---------7---
----------------
----------------
Girlfriend In A Coma
From: db39@oliven.bih.no (Trygve Haaland)
The chords are:
G /Gmaj7 /C /D [figure 1]
Em /Em -D /C /C-D [figure 2]
and the lyrics are:
[Repeat figure 1]
Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know, it's serious
Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know, it's really serious
There were times when I could have murdered her,
but you know I would hate anything to happen to her
Would you please let me see her
[Repeat figure 2]
Do you really think she'll pull through?
Do you really think she'll pull through?
[Figure 1]
Girlfriend in a coma, I know, I know, it's serious
My, my, my, my, my, my, my baby goodbye
There were times when I could have strangled her
but you know I would hate anything to happen to her
Would you please let me see her?
[Figure 2]
Do you really think she'll pull through?
Do you really think she'll pull through?
[Figure 1]
Let me whisper my last goodbyes
I know it's serious.
I think that should be correct, but if it isn't, it's not far away.
Trygve S Haaland, Bergen College of Engineering, Bergen, Norway
db39@oliven.bih.no or tvilsom@amanda.bbb.no
Half A Person
From: Fergal <u9246576@athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk>
Here's a song you might be interested in if you do'nt have the music for it already.
RIFF 1
|---5-4-------------------------|
|--5----5-----------------------|
|-4-----------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
Bm E RIFF1 Bm E RIFF1
Call me morbid, call me pale. I've spent six years on your trail
Bm A G E Esus4 E
six long years on your trail.
Bm E RIFF 1 Bm E RIFF 1
Call me morbid, call me pale. I've spent six years on your trail
Bm A G E Esus4 E
six full years of my life on your trail.
Gb G(bar) C(bar) G Gb G(bar)
And if you have five seconds to spare, then I'll tell you the story of my life.
D A Gb Bm G
Sixteen clumsy and shy, I went to London and I
D A Gb
I booked myself in at the Y W C A
A E RIFF 1 A E RIFF 1
I said "i like it here, can I stay?", "i like it here, can I stay?",
Bm A G E Esus4 E
Do you have a vacancy for a back scrubber?
Well, the song just continues from there with the same basic chord
sequences,
Not a complex song, but a brilliant one.
From Fergal Boden
Queens University Belfast,
(u9246576@athmail1.causeway.qub.ac.uk)
How Soon Is Now
From: john dioso <76711.2312@CompuServe.COM>
Hey, Jennifer, I've been playing this song for a good decade now,
and I'll be damned if what I play matches Johnny Marr note for note. The
chords, ostensibly, are F#, A, and B in the verse, and C#m, E, and F# in
the chorus (the "You shut your mouth" bit).
Played straight, it sounds horrendously wrong. But with the right
rhythm, you can approach Johnny-ness.
I read in a "Guitar" magazine profile of Johnny five or six years
ago that he actually played this song with his guitar tuned to an open
E (that is, strumming all the open strings would be an E chord; so the
strings were tuned, from lowest to highest, E-B-E-G#-B-E). It's a tuning
that Bo Diddley used in many of his songs, and if you listen carefully,
you'll notice the "Bo Diddley beat" lurking behind this mope-rock anthem
(try playing the song to the rhythm of "Born to Hand Jive" from "Grease,"
and you'll get the picture. Anyway, on to the song.
chords (in standard tuning, BTW):
verse chorus
F# A B D A C#m E
E-2 - - - 5 4 0
B-2 2 4 7 5 5 0
G-3 2 4 7 6 6 1
D-4 2 4 7 7 6 2
A-4 0 2 5 7 4 2
E-2 - - - 5 - 0
The opening "riff" is just the F# chord (2nd fret position) with
loads of
reverb, another way to get that "wavy" feeling from just playing
the one chord is to position your hand to play the F# as I've shown you
above, except hammer on the first-finger barre on the 2nd fret to begin
the riff (^ = downstroke. v = upstroke):
|F# ^ v ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | do this twice; the second time the lead
guitarist (on
tour, Johnny) plays:
E-----2-2-2-2-2-2-2 | (4/5\4) just before the rhythm guitarist
(on tour,
Craig Gannon) plays the next chords
B-----2-2-2-2-2-2-2 |
G-3---3-3-3-3-3-4-3 |
D-4---4-4-4-4-2-2-2 |
A-4---4-4-4-4-4-4-4 |
E-0(h)2-2-2-2-2-2-2 |
so the chord sequence for the intro and verse is:
|F#|F#|F#|A/B/|
How Soon Is Now?
F#
I am the son and the heir
A
B F#
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
A B
Of nothing in particular
D
A
You shut your mouth, how can you say
C#m E
F#
I go about things the wrong way ?
D
A
I am Human and I need to be loved
C#m E
|F#|F#|F#|A/B/|
Just like everybody else does
F#
I am the son and the heir
A
B F#
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
A B
Oh, of nothing in particular
D
A
You shut your mouth
D
A
You shut your mouth, how can you say
C#m E
F#
I go about things the wrong way ?
D
A
I am Human and I need to be loved
C#m E
|F#|F#|F#|A/B/|
Just like everybody else does
D
A
There's a club if you'd like to go
C#m E
F#
You could meet somebody who really loves you
D
So you go, and you stand on your own
A
And you leave on your own
C#m
E
And you go home, and you cry
|F#|F#|F#|A/B/|
And you want to die
D
A
When you say it's gonna happen "now"
C#m E
F#
Well, when exactly do you mean?
D
A
See I've already waited too long
C#m E
F#
And all my hope is gone
D
A
You shut your mouth, how can you say
C#m E
F#
I go about things the wrong way ?
D
A
I am Human and I need to be loved
C#m E
|F#|F#|F#|A/B/|
Just like everybody else does
Hand In Glove
(Morrissey/Marr)
From: kjohn@quads.uchicago.edu (SINE QUA NON)
transcribed by Adam Schaffer
Notes:
This is the way Johnny would play it in concert. If anybody has
the "There is a Light..." cd single or a copy of the Oxford '85 concert,
this should be familiar. It's a simplified version of the studio versions.
Once again, tune up all strings two semitones or capo up two frets
to F#
tuning.
Main Riff:
F#---0------------0-------------
C#-----0----1-0-----1_p_0-------
A -2------------2---------2_p_0-
E ------------------------------
B ------------------------------
F#------------------------------
F#---0------------0--------0----------
C#-----0----1-0------------3----------
A -2------------2---x_sl_4---x_sl_4-0-
E ------------------------------------
B ------------------------------------
F#------------------------------------
Chords:
F#m - 022000
D - X32010
Bm - X02210
Bsus2 - 002200
??? - X00000
A - 355433
F#-0-0-0-0-0---x-0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---x-0---0---x-3-x-3-
C#-0-0-0-1-1---x-1---1---1-1---0---0-0-0-1-1---x-0---0---x-3-x-3-
A -0-0-0-0-0---x-2---2---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---x-2---2---x-4-x-4-
E -2-2-2-2-2---x-2---2---2-2---0---2-2-2-2-2---x-2---2---x-5-x-5-
B -2-2-2-3-3---x-0---0---3-3---0---2-2-2-3-3---x-0---0---x-5---5-
F#-0-0-0---------------------------0-0-0-------------------3---3-
Shoplifters of the World Unite
From: Johnson Brett Edward <bjohnson@sobek.Colorado.EDU>
E D A E
D A E
Learn to love me assemble the ways Now today tomorrow and
always
My only weakness is a listed crime
My only weakness is well nevermind
nevermind CDG
CHORUS:
G C
Am C D G C
Am C D G
Shoplifters of the world Unite
and take over
G C
Am G C
Am
Shoplifters of the world hand
it over, hand it over, hand it over
E
D A E D A E
Learn to love me assemble the ways
Now today tomorrow and always
E D A E
My only weakness is a list of crimes
E C D G
but night the plans of a future war was all I saw on Channel 4
CHORUS then instrumental 1st verse then instrumental chorus then ...
CHORUS (alternate words):
G
C Am
A heartless hand on my shoulder a push and it's over
G C
Am
alabaster crashes down, six months is a long time
G C Am
G C
Am
tried living in the real world, instead of a shell but before I
began
G
C Am C D G
I was bored before I even began
Shoplifters of the world unite and take over (2X)
Shoplifters of the world ... hand it over.
Sheila Take A Bow
From: Mike Higgott <mah@de-montfort.ac.uk>
B
E
D
A
Is it wrong to want to live on your own?
E
A
C#m
No, it's not wrong - but I must know
E
D A
How can someone so young
E A
B
Sing words so sad?
E
D
F#m
Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
C
D E
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear
D F#m
And don't go home tonight
C
D
E C
Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you
D E
B
The one that you love and who loves you, oh
E
D
A
Is it wrong not to always be glad
E
A
C#m
No, it's not wrong - but I must add
E
D A
How can someone so young
E A
B
Sing words so sad?
E
D
F#m
Sheila take a, Sheila take a bow
C
D
E
Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear
D F#m
And don't go home tonight
C
D E
C
Come out and find the one that you love and who loves you
D
E B
The one that you love and who loves you, oh
E D
F#m
Take my hand and off we stride
C D
E
Oh la la la la la la la la
D F#m
You're a girl and I'm a boy
C D
E C
La la la la la la la la
D
E
La la la la la la
E D
F#m
Take my hand and off we stride
C D
E
Oh la la la la la la la la
D F#m
I'm a girl and you're a boy
C D
E C
La la la la la la
D
E
La la la la la la
D F#m
Sheila take a, Sheila take bow
C D
E
La la la la la la la la
D F#m
Throw your homework onto the fire
C
D
E C
Come out and find the one that you love
D
Em7
Come out and find the one that you love
Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
(Johnny Marr/The Smiths)
From: Travel1054@aol.com (Jim D Lantos)
(Capoed on the 4th fret for Queen is Dead
or 6th fret for a Brixton concert version, I believe)
(plucked in a very rapid banjoish sort of way with
liberal use of a digital delay)
A.
(C form)
-------------------------------------------------------------0--------
----1-------------1-----------0--1-------0-1-0-----0-1-0------0-------
-------0-------------0--0^2--------------------0^2-------0-0---0------
--2--2---2--2^0-0--0--0-----2--2---2^0-0----------2-2-------2---------
-0--------------------------------------------------------------------
B.
C F
G
----0-------------------------------------------------------
------1^0-------1-------3---------------------------------------
----------0-------2-------4-----------------------------------
--0---------2^3-----3^5-----5------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
[[A B A B A B B B (play C)] x 3] B ...variation on B until fade
For anyone interested, I read somewhere that the extra lyrics to
the Brixton concert go something like:
On the shop floor
there's a calender
as obvious as snow
...as if we didn't know
Panic
from: Christian Korbanka, Cologne, Germany
e-mail: Christian_Korbanka@msn.com
Suggestions and corrections are always welcome!
date: 95/10/15
C D Bb F
G
Em
Panic on the streets of London
G
Em
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
C
D Bb F
I wonder to myself
G
Em
Could life ever be sane again
G
Em
On the Leeds side streets that you slip down
C
D Bb F
I wonder to myself.
G
Em
Hope's may rise under Grasmeres
G
Em
But honeypie, you're not safe here
C
So you run down
D Bb F
To the safety of the town.
G
Em
But there's panic on the streets of Carlisle,
G
Em
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
C
D
I wonder to myself.
Bb F Em Bm
D
Bb F Em Bm
D
G
Em
Burn down the disco,
G
Em
Hang the blessed D.J.,
C
D
Because the music that they constantly play,
G
Em
It says nothing to me about my life,
G
Em
Hang the blessed D.J.,
C
D Bb F
Because the music that they constantly play,
G
Em
On the Leeds side streets that you slip down,
G
Em
On the provincial towns you jog round,
C
D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
C
D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
C
D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
Bb F G
Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,
G
Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,
C
D
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J., hang the D.J.
Bb F G
Em
Hang the D.J., hang the D.J.,
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
From: kjohn@quads.uchicago.edu (SINE QUA NON)
w/capo on 2nd fret
Dmaj7 A5 D A5 F#m G/F# A5 ?
A G A5
E -2---5---2---5---2---2---5---5---5---3---5---
B -2---5---3---5---2---3---5---3---2---3---5---
G -2---2---2---2---2---4---2---2---2---4---2---
D -4---2---4---2---4---5---2---2---2---5---2---
A -5---X---5---X---4---5---X---X---X---5---X---
E -----5---2---5---2---3---5---5---5---3---5---
G/F# A5
E --------------2---2--5-
B --------------3---2--5-
G -----2-----2--4---4--2-
D ---4-----2----5---5--2-
A -5-----4------5---5--X-
E --------------3---3--5-
|------------play twice------|
Dmaj7
E -------------------------------------------------5---2-
B -3-p-2--3-p-2--3-sl-5-sl-3--2----7-5-3-5---3-2-------2-
G -4-p-2--4-p-2--4-sl-6-sl-4--2-2----------4-----2-----2-
D ------------------------------4----------------------4-
A -----------------------------------------------------5-
E -------------------------------------------------------
ending:
F#5
Bm Bm G
A5
E -----4---2---2---2---2---2---7---9--10---3---2---5---|
B -----2---2---5---3---2---3---7---7---7---3---2---5---|
G -----2---2---2---2---2---4---7---7---7---4---4---2---|
D -4---4---4---4---4---4---4---9---9---9---5---5---2---|
A -4---4---4---4---4---4---2---9---9---9---5---5---X---|
E -2---2---2---2---2---2-------7---7---7---3---3---5---|