DRAKE NICK - "been smokin too long" Tablature

From: michael.healey@balliol.ox.ac.uk (Mike)


Been Smokin' Too Long
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Nick Drake, from 'Time of No Reply'

This is a cool blues finger picking style. I hope I've got the timing about right,
but the only way you'll really pick it up is by listening to the record.
I've only tabbed out the intro because it's the only bit I can play accurately,
but I've included the chords for the verses, and you just play them in the same sort of style.
There are only really three different chords: Am, F, E, and some twiddly bits on top of those.

Standard Tuning, Capo 2nd fret.

INTRO:-

Am (Amsus2) Am Am7 Am (Amsus2)
trill bend up
E-|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|------------------|
B-|---------0h1p0---|-0---1---------3>|----1-----------|-0---1------------|
G-|-2------------2--|---------2-------|--------2-------|---------2--------|
D-|-----2-----------|-----------------|------------2---|------------------|
A-|-0-------0-------|-0-------------0-|----0-----------|-0----------------|
E-|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-------------0----|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

F F E (Em) E7
trill
E-|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-0---------------|
B-|---------1--------|-1---1-----------|------------------|-----3-----------|
G-|-2----------------|---------2-------|-1-------0h1p0----|---------1-------|
D-|-----3-------3----|-------------3---|-----2--------2---|-----------------|
A-|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
E-|-1-------1--------|-1---1-----------|-0-------0--------|-0---0-------0---|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

Am (Amsus2) Am Am7 Am Am
trill bend up
E-|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----0-----------|
B-|---------0h1p0----|-0---1-------3>--|----1------------|-1---------------|
G-|-2------------2---|---------2-------|--------2--------|---------2-------|
D-|-----2------------|-----------------|------------2----|-----------------|
A-|-0-------0--------|-0-----------0---|----0------------|-0---0-----------|
E-|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------0---|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

F F E (Em) E7
trill bend up
E-|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
B-|---------1--------|-1---1-----------|------------------|-----3--------3>---|
G-|-2----------------|---------2-------|-1-------0h1p0----|---------1---------|
D-|-----3-------3----|-------------3---|-----2--------2---|-------------------|
A-|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-------------------|
E-|-1-------1--------|-1---1-----------|-0-------0--------|-0---0--------0----|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

E7
bend up
E-|--------0---------|--------0--------|
B-|--------------3>--|-----------------|
G-|----1-------------|----1------------|
D-|------------------|-----------------|
A-|------------------|-----------------|
E-|--------0-----0---|--------0--------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &


Am Am/G Am/F
Well I wake up ...
E Am
Look at my c...
Am/G Am/F
It's way past ...
E
Now I'm ...

[Chorus:-]

F
Tell me ...
E Am
What have I ...
Am/G
Ain't nothin' go ...
F E Am Am/G Am/F
Must be I've been...

[little solo on E, E7 (bend up)]

Well I go to find me ...

[Chorus]

I've got opium in my ....

[Chorus]

Well when I'm ...

[Chorus]

Well in this blues I'm ....




Tab by Mike Healey (email: michael.healey@balliol.ox.ac.uk)