Strangeways, Here We come

PLEASE NOTE
The following files are the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song.
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A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours
(Morrissey/Marr)

From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu>

This piano song that opens up -Strangeways, Here We Come- is quite simple.
It is only three chords really. The intro can be played this way:

Dm Bb

E ---1---1---1---1-----------------||
B ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-||
G ---2---2---2---2---3---3---3---3-||
D -0-------0---3-----3---3---3---3-||
A -----0-----------1-------1---3---||
E ---------------------1-----------||

That is basically how the piano plays the intro and possibly the rest of
the song. The lyrics without chords on top just go from Dm to Bb:

HELLO
i am the ghost of troubled joe hung by his pretty white neck some eighteen months ago i travelled to a mystical time zone but i missed my bed so i soon came home, they said:
there is too much caffeine in your blood stream and a lack of real spice in your life i said:
leave me alone, because i'm alright, dad just surprised to be on my own...

Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
i~d hate the strain of the pain again

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so i shall be again and people who are uglier than you and i they take what they need and leave

Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
i~d hate the pain of the strain all over again

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so why can~t it be now? and people who are weaker than you and i they take what they want from life

Eb Dm
ooh, but don~t mention love
Eb Dm
no, no- don~t mention love

a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours your youth may be gone but you~re still a young man so phone me, phone me, phone me phone me, phone me, phone me

Eb Dm
ooh, i think i~m in love...

(I hope you have found this helpful. Bye-bye)

Death Of A Disco Dancer
(Morrissey/Marr)

From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu>

The intro bassline (and basically throughout the song) is:

B A G#m G B A G#m E

G -------------------------------|-------------------------------|
D -------------------------5-4---|-------------------------2-0---|
A -2----2-0----0---------------5-|-2----2-0----0---------------4-|
E ----2------0---4------3--------|----2------0---4--4p2p0--------|

Sometimes the bass changes a bit, but that is the basic bassline.
the lyrics are (and the same eight chord progression is constant throughout
the entire song):

B A G#m G
the death of a disco dancer
B A G#m E
well, it happens a lot round here
and if you think peace is a common goal
well, that goes to show
just how little you know

the death of a disco dancer
well, i~d rather not get involved
i never talk to my neighbour
i~d just rather not get involved
love, peace and harmony?
love, peace and harmony?
oh, very nice
very nice
very nice
very nice
...but maybe in the next world

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

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---
----------------
----------------

Unhappy Birthday

From yu104232@YorkU.CA Tue Apr 30 08:01:01 1996

Intro: D A Cmaj7
I've

D F6 Bsharp6 G
Come to wish you an__un-hap-py__ birth - day. I've

D F6 Bsharp6
Come to wish you an__un-hap-py__ birth - day 'cos you're

G D F6
ev - il and you lie____ and if you should__ die__ I

Bsharp6 G D
May feel slight - ly___ sad___ but I won't cry.

F6 D

G D C6
Loved and lost____ and some may say when

D
us - ual - ly it's noth - ing___ sure-ly you're hap-py it should

Amin7(+4) Cmaj7(+6) D
be this way.________ I say no I'm gon-na kill my

C6 D
dog may the lines sag____ the lines sag heavy and___

       Amin7(+4)             Cmaj7(+6)
       deep to   -   night.________(restart here with 2. I've come...
                                    or begin From the one you left...)

D F6 Bsharp6 G
________the one you left be-hind____________ from the one

D F6 Bsharp6
you left be - hind____from the one you left be - hind____ from

G
the one you left be - hind...(etc.)

Again, I apologize for the inability to get this stuff onto email.
Hope its o.k.

Vickie

Paint A Vulgar Picture

Lyrics by Morrissey
Music by Johnny Marr
Performed by the Smiths from their LP "Strangeways Here We Come"

Transcribed by Pablo Kang (pkang@cs.buffalo.edu) December 12, 1995
Corrections and comments are encouraged.

########## Legend ##########################
#                                          #
# e : eigth note                          #
# q : quarter                             #
# q. : quarter + eigth                     #
# h : half                                #
# w : whole note                          #
#                                          #
# (n) : ghost note                         #
#            (i.e. do not play, it's there #
#            for musical correctness)      #
# ^ : pull off                             #
# / : slide up                             #
# \ : slide down                           #
# = : continued note                       #
#                                          #
############################################

The whole song begins with...

... a strum on        ...then another strum
the 9th position      for another 4 beats...
for 4 beats...             |
     |                     |
     V                     V
F# (9th pos)         F# (2nd pos)
x=====                ======
|1|||x ix             ||||||
------                ------
|||||| x              1|||1x
------                ------
||333| xi             |||2||
------                ------
                        |34|||
                        ------

...then with vigor...

A (strum 4x) [key of D]

...then...

D, G, A
D, G, A
Bm, G, A, G, A
Bm, G, A

D, G, A "At the record company meeting..."
...

...then the aforementioned pattern repeats until the key change, where
from the last _A_ chord in the pattern slides down to the _F#_ chord and a
similar pattern ensues with a different key.

i.e.

... "...you could walked away...couldn't you?"
Bm, G, A

F#, [down to B key]
B, E, F# "I touched you at the soundcheck..."
B, E, F#
G#m, E, F#
G#m, E, F#
...

...then the solo follows:

...really know...aw! [key of D] q q q q. e e e e e==
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------5-----|--7--------7--8--7--------
|-------------------------|--------7-----7-----------|--------------------7--7==
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

=(e) e e q q e e e q e e e e e e e e e e e
|----------5--7-----5-----|--------------------------|--------------------7-----
|-------------------------|--8--7-----------5--5--5--|-5/7-10-7--10-8--10----10=
=(7)-6--6-----------------|--------7--7--------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

h           q.       e     q     q     e e e e     w
|----------------------10-|--10----------------------|--------------------------
=(10)========(10)---------|--------7-----8--7--------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------9--9====(9)----------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e e h           q        e q     q     q     e     e e e e h
|-7^^5--------------------|--7--5--------------------|--------------9-----------
|-pull--------------------|--------------------------|--------8-----------------
|-off---7==========(7)----|-----------6-----7-----7--|--7-7/9----9--------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e e e e e e e e     e q     e h             e   e e e e e e e
|-------9^^7--------7--5--|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-5--5--pull--5--5--------|--------------------------|-----------------------12-
|-------off---------------|--7--7-----9--9-----------|-9-9/11-14-11-14-12-14----
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +    1   + 2 + 3 + 4 +

q     e h           q     w   [key of B]             Best of, most of...
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-12----10-10=========(10)|--11----------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +     1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

...etc.

You can pretty much figure it out from here.

I Won't Share You

Refrain: G - Am - C - D
Verse: Bm - Em - C - D

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