SUGAR - "if i cant change your mind" Tablature
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From: law2@husc.harvard.edu
"If I Can't Change Your Mind," by Sugar.
>From their 1992 Rykodisc album Copper Blue.
Tabbed out by Keith E. Law (law2@husc.harvard.edu).
This is the single version. I have no clue if the album version is any
different.
There's another tab of this song out there somewhere, but it's very hard
to read so I decided to write it out in a more legible fashion.
NOTE: CAPO ON THIRD FRET!!!!!!!
All chord names herein designate position; e.g., D = XX0232, which, with a
capo on the third fret, is actually an F.
T = play with thumb
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
^ = bend ^q = quarter tone ^h = half tone ^F = full tone
if letter is above the fret #, note is bent THEN picked
h = hammer
p = pull-off
g = grace note - written above note to be 'graced'
~ = vibrato
This is the main riff:
--2---0-2---3---2-0--|--2---0-2---0-0-0-0--|
--3---3-3---3---3-3--|--3---3-3---3-2-0-2--|
--2---2-2---0--------|--2---2-2---2-2-2-2--|
--0---0-0---0--------|--0---0-0---2-2-2-2--|
------------2--------|------------0-0-0-0--|
------------3--------|---------------------|
In chord names: D Dsus2 D G D(no5) Dsus2(no5)
D Dsus2 D Asus4 A Asus2 A
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For simplicity's sake, call this A pattern
Riff A.
Behind the lyrics:
D G
Tears fill up ...
D Riff A
I'm washed away ...
D G
And somewhere ...
D Bm F#m
I know there's ...
G A
Well I see you're ...
D A Bm F#m
I guess you've ...
G Riff A (to main riff)
But if I can't change ...
[Same for verse 2]
And all throughout the ....
If I can't change ...
F#m G
Even though my heart ....
Bm C
Don't you know that ....
D D Dsus2 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Here for you
F#m G
Then when ...
F#m G
When will ...
Bm
I hope you ....
C
Look how long ....
F#m
If you come back then ...
G Riff A
A different person ....
[Verse 3 - back to same pattern]
How can I explain away.....
If I can't .....
[transition] Bm F#m
[jump to middle of verse pattern]
Someday you'll see I've ......
The very end:
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
--------------2-3--|--3-2--------------|--------------2-3--|
--------0-2-4------|------4-2-0--------|--------0-2-4------|
--0-2-4------------|------------4-2-0--|--0-2-4------------|
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
--g----------------|-----||
--3/5-3-2-0--------|--3--||
------------2-0----|--2--||
-------------------|--0--||
-------------------|--0--||
-------------------|-----||
If you find this file and like it, all I ask is that you let me know:
Keith E. Law
law2@husc.harvard.edu
"If I Can't Change Your Mind," by Sugar.
>From their 1992 Rykodisc album Copper Blue.
Tabbed out by Keith E. Law (law2@husc.harvard.edu).
This is the single version. I have no clue if the album version is any
different.
There's another tab of this song out there somewhere, but it's very hard
to read so I decided to write it out in a more legible fashion.
NOTE: CAPO ON THIRD FRET!!!!!!!
All chord names herein designate position; e.g., D = XX0232, which, with a
capo on the third fret, is actually an F.
T = play with thumb
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
^ = bend ^q = quarter tone ^h = half tone ^F = full tone
if letter is above the fret #, note is bent THEN picked
h = hammer
p = pull-off
g = grace note - written above note to be 'graced'
~ = vibrato
This is the main riff:
--2---0-2---3---2-0--|--2---0-2---0-0-0-0--|
--3---3-3---3---3-3--|--3---3-3---3-2-0-2--|
--2---2-2---0--------|--2---2-2---2-2-2-2--|
--0---0-0---0--------|--0---0-0---2-2-2-2--|
------------2--------|------------0-0-0-0--|
------------3--------|---------------------|
In chord names: D Dsus2 D G D(no5) Dsus2(no5)
D Dsus2 D Asus4 A Asus2 A
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
For simplicity's sake, call this A pattern
Riff A.
Behind the lyrics:
D G
Tears fill up ...
D Riff A
I'm washed away ...
D G
And somewhere ...
D Bm F#m
I know there's ...
G A
Well I see you're ...
D A Bm F#m
I guess you've ...
G Riff A (to main riff)
But if I can't change ...
[Same for verse 2]
And all throughout the ....
If I can't change ...
F#m G
Even though my heart ....
Bm C
Don't you know that ....
D D Dsus2 Dsus4 D Dsus2 D
Here for you
F#m G
Then when ...
F#m G
When will ...
Bm
I hope you ....
C
Look how long ....
F#m
If you come back then ...
G Riff A
A different person ....
[Verse 3 - back to same pattern]
How can I explain away.....
If I can't .....
[transition] Bm F#m
[jump to middle of verse pattern]
Someday you'll see I've ......
The very end:
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
--------------2-3--|--3-2--------------|--------------2-3--|
--------0-2-4------|------4-2-0--------|--------0-2-4------|
--0-2-4------------|------------4-2-0--|--0-2-4------------|
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
--g----------------|-----||
--3/5-3-2-0--------|--3--||
------------2-0----|--2--||
-------------------|--0--||
-------------------|--0--||
-------------------|-----||
If you find this file and like it, all I ask is that you let me know:
Keith E. Law
law2@husc.harvard.edu
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