COLLINS EDWYN - "subsistence" Tablature

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 17:16:58 -0400
From: Remi Despres <remidesp@netcom.ca>
Subject: c/collins_edwyn/subsistence.crd

tab by Remi Despres (remidesp@netcom.ca)
sometimes in 1998


Subsistence by Edwyn Collins,
from the album Gorgeous George


Notes:
A7 is be played a few different ways...
Where A7 is called for, play [- 0 2 0 2 0]
Where A7* is noted play [- 0 2 0 2 3]
D7 also...
D7 is [- 0 0 2 1 2]
D7(V) - [5 5 7 5 7 5]
D7(V)* - [5 5 7 5 7 8]

I suggest listening to the recording for the timing on the D7 - D7(V) - D7(V)* progression

There are two low E notes plucked off beat during the intro
Intro picking pattern is played very softly, strumming starts at the end

Intro:

C E Am ? F
----------------------------------------------------------------------
----------1------------0------------1-------------1-------------1-----
----------0------------1------------2-------------3-------------2-----
------2------2-----2------2----2------2-------2------2-------3-----3--
--3--------------------------0-------------1--------------------------
----------------0-----------------------------------------1-----------

E7 A
---------------------
--------3----------2-
--------1---------2--
----2------2-----2---
----------------0----
-0-------------------



Verse 1

A C#7
You may find As I have found
F#m A7 A7*
This place is neither Safe nor sound
D F#7
This house of cards Will tumble down
Bm D7 D7(V) D7(V)*
As befits A cardboard town

C F
You're lost in the ruins of your mind
C
As these four walls collide
G G7
As your whole world subsides
C F
But you took it all in your stride
C
As a matter of course
G C
Not a matter of pride


E
A C#7
So raise your glass Let's celebrate
F#m A7 A7*
'Cause we can force Those 'hands of fate'
D F#7
No need to heed the call for greed, for acquisition
Bm D7 D7(V) D7(V)*
Now I ain't puttin' you on This is my genuine position



[Chorus]

E E7
Am Em F C Em
How can I thank you We're forever in your debt
Am Em F
We'll bite the hand of fate that feeds us
Dm Dsus4 Dm Dsus4 Dm Dsus4
Morsels of regret


[chorus]

F G G7 C
As a matter of course Not a matter of pride