HITCHCOCK ROBYN - "black snake album" Tablature
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 17:41:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Terry Marks <a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>
Subject: h/robyn_hitchcock/Black_Snake_album.crd
Today I returned from lunch to find a
"thank you" from him -- a mug with a picture of Syd screened on one side!
The other side has some guy (unrecognizable, at least to me) screaming,
with the words "The Anderson Council" circling his head... Chris (the
student aide) has no clue what this is all about -- a house he lived in in
British Columbia had a big crate of these mugs in the basement!
My guess is, a floyd cover band??? Anyone know?
@ALBUM: Black Snake Diamond Role
BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND ROLE
by
Robyn Hitchcock
@The Man Who Invented Himself
I met this man called Mr Barrett or something in the South Kensington
Subway playing this tune on an old guitar. Anyway I gave him 50p and
he showed me how to play it.
{This tune is played on the joannah on CD so it sounds natuarally
enough a little different on guitar. These are the chords but it's
worth hunting around to get those inversions right.
Lyrics from Mr Mellotron, Chords from Tin-Ear.
Intro
F Gmin Bb C
F Gmin Bb C F
F Bb F
He came bursting ...
Bb F
like a sphere ...
Bb F
And he cast his ...
Gmin Bb
it was like he ...
Bb F
And he landed ...
Bb F
But the ...
Bb F
And it left fim ...
Gmin Bb
You could here the ...
Bb C F G#min
He's the fellow, the man ...
Bb C F F
He's the fellow the man ...
And it continues in the same ...
Bb F
Nobody knows ...
Bb F
Nobody knows where he's ...
F2 C
But he's ...
The F2 chord looks like this (it's still an F chord, just an inversion)
(X03311)
@SONG: BRENDA'S IRON SLEDGE
Intro:
D:-----2-2-2-0---0-------0-0-0------
A:-0-3---------3-----2-3-------3-2-0
A
We head downhill, my hands ....
The iron piston ...
D
The steaming air as ...
E A E
All aboard, Brenda's iron .....
All aboard, ....
D A E
Please don't call ....
@SONG: DO POLICEMEN SING?
The opening riff isn't really a chord,
but tabbed out I guess it would look like:
Bass plays low E...
Gtr. slides down from XXX9-11-X on beat 2,
Then X12XXX, and pull off on the A string to X02XXX.
The chord would be Em, and in both cases
the two notes are E and Bb, so let's
just refer to them as Hi and Lo, shall we?
Between couplets in the verse,
the Asus2 is just X02200, picked, with the
bass going up to B on beat 4.
Hi Lo Hi Lo
"O do policemen sing?" I ....
Hi Lo Hi Lo Asus2
"We can do anything!" I....
And so on until...the chorus:
B: X24442
E: X79997 (bass plays A)
D: X57775 (bass plays G)
C#: X46664
C#maj7: X46564
F#: 244322
D#m: X68876
Bsus2 E D
It's true becauzza... Never ....
D C# C#maj7
Never show him ...
F# D#m
Confidence...
The next 5 measures are picked, but if they were chords
they'd be C#: 9-11-11-10-9-9, B: 799877, and B7: 797877.
Some might choose to play these all as 7ths if they
were playing them as chords.
C# B
'Cuz who supplies ...
C# B
It's not your ...
B7
Or your best ...
...And back to Em and the Hi-Lo verse part.
The end section:
--------------------
--------------------
--------------------
--------------------
---2---1---2---1----
0-----------------3- D (XX0232)
...Our law and or-der's never-never-never-never-never gonna break down
Repeat 3 times, and on the last repeat (remember there's
an extra "never"), end (on "Down") with a chord which
might be described as E5 (add Bb): 022300.
As for the outro, it starts with the same E5 (addBb) chord,
then switches to XX4442, and up to XXX775, XXX997, XXX9-12-10,
and XXX-9-11-9, as the song fades out.
--------------------------------------
@SONG: THE LIZARD
A Em D7 C G
You wear the lizard's shoes and afterwards ....
@SONG: MEAT
E is played as [listen for rhythm] a sort of switch between E and A.
or as just a plain E, if you're into simplifying things.
E
It don't feel much like a ...
It don't feel much like a ...
A E
It don't feel much like a ...
A B
It don't feel much like a girl .....
It don't feel much like a ....
B E
Oh come on baby (doo-doo-doot) .....
@SONG: ACID BIRD
Intro:
D:-0--0-0-0----------------------------
A:---0-0-0-0---------------------------
D
Sucking on a tap ...
A
Could you take it ....
G D
Bending blood, ...
A
The father stood, the ...
D A D A
Like shadow on an acid bird that ....
D E A
So long ...
G
Fun in the sun, ...
A G
Shallow bodies ....
G
Fun in the sun, hair ...
A G
Tadpoles shooting ....
@SONG: I WATCH THE CARS
* E:-0-0h3-0-3-5-3----------
E *
I watch the ....
I watch the cars ...
I watch the cars ....
A(5)
Sometimes south ....
E *
I watch the cars....
I hear the ....
A(5)
I wonder who ....
E *
I'm getting ...
I see the men ...
I see the ....
A(5)
They go to ....
Who never mind ....
E *
The prostitutes ....
Alright!
I hear you're gonna try that too
I hear you're gonna ....
A(5)
I wouldn't pay to ....
I watch the cars go ...
A(5)
Sometimes south ....
E *
I watch ....
@SONG: OUT OF THE PICTURE
[I'm a bit unsure about the verse]
A D E
Don't you ever ....
Don't you feel sad...
D A E
There is no escaping ....
A D E
She's never really ...
D
And I'm walking out of ....
E A E D
Leaving everything behind .....
D
She's not just a ...
E
She's a big black ....
A D
She swallows everything .....
@SONG: CITY OF SHAME
E D
It was in the ...
E D
That I found I ....
A(5) B(7)
I was looking for a ....
A(5) B(7)
I discovered that .....
D A
La, la, la...
E A
La, la, la, ...
A E
La, la, la...
A D
La, la, la....
It was in the ....
.......by several men
E A
La, la, la....a
E D
La, la, la....
[repeat as needed]
@SONG: LOVE
D G
The sun is shining ...
C D
I see that nothing ...
D C
I move ...
G D
And choose the ...
D C D
Ah, ah, ah - I'm ...
Dancing On God's Thumb (3:40)
----------------------
Intro: [Soft Boys version]
e:-0----0-1-2-3----0-1-2-7-5-??-3-0-
[the ?? is either a 5 or a 3. Kimberly plays it very fast and
very distorted, so I can't properly tell. If you can, let me
know]
B(7) A(5)
I don't mind walking ....
I don't mind waiting where ...
But when I don't have ...
E D
I hate everything ....
I don't mind waiting 'til the .....
You know the first to ....
B(7) A(5) G(3) B(7)
We are all dancing ....
We are all dancing .....
Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks
a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
From: Terry Marks <a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>
Subject: h/robyn_hitchcock/Black_Snake_album.crd
Today I returned from lunch to find a
"thank you" from him -- a mug with a picture of Syd screened on one side!
The other side has some guy (unrecognizable, at least to me) screaming,
with the words "The Anderson Council" circling his head... Chris (the
student aide) has no clue what this is all about -- a house he lived in in
British Columbia had a big crate of these mugs in the basement!
My guess is, a floyd cover band??? Anyone know?
@ALBUM: Black Snake Diamond Role
BLACK SNAKE DIAMOND ROLE
by
Robyn Hitchcock
@The Man Who Invented Himself
I met this man called Mr Barrett or something in the South Kensington
Subway playing this tune on an old guitar. Anyway I gave him 50p and
he showed me how to play it.
{This tune is played on the joannah on CD so it sounds natuarally
enough a little different on guitar. These are the chords but it's
worth hunting around to get those inversions right.
Lyrics from Mr Mellotron, Chords from Tin-Ear.
Intro
F Gmin Bb C
F Gmin Bb C F
F Bb F
He came bursting ...
Bb F
like a sphere ...
Bb F
And he cast his ...
Gmin Bb
it was like he ...
Bb F
And he landed ...
Bb F
But the ...
Bb F
And it left fim ...
Gmin Bb
You could here the ...
Bb C F G#min
He's the fellow, the man ...
Bb C F F
He's the fellow the man ...
And it continues in the same ...
Bb F
Nobody knows ...
Bb F
Nobody knows where he's ...
F2 C
But he's ...
The F2 chord looks like this (it's still an F chord, just an inversion)
(X03311)
@SONG: BRENDA'S IRON SLEDGE
Intro:
D:-----2-2-2-0---0-------0-0-0------
A:-0-3---------3-----2-3-------3-2-0
A
We head downhill, my hands ....
The iron piston ...
D
The steaming air as ...
E A E
All aboard, Brenda's iron .....
All aboard, ....
D A E
Please don't call ....
@SONG: DO POLICEMEN SING?
The opening riff isn't really a chord,
but tabbed out I guess it would look like:
Bass plays low E...
Gtr. slides down from XXX9-11-X on beat 2,
Then X12XXX, and pull off on the A string to X02XXX.
The chord would be Em, and in both cases
the two notes are E and Bb, so let's
just refer to them as Hi and Lo, shall we?
Between couplets in the verse,
the Asus2 is just X02200, picked, with the
bass going up to B on beat 4.
Hi Lo Hi Lo
"O do policemen sing?" I ....
Hi Lo Hi Lo Asus2
"We can do anything!" I....
And so on until...the chorus:
B: X24442
E: X79997 (bass plays A)
D: X57775 (bass plays G)
C#: X46664
C#maj7: X46564
F#: 244322
D#m: X68876
Bsus2 E D
It's true becauzza... Never ....
D C# C#maj7
Never show him ...
F# D#m
Confidence...
The next 5 measures are picked, but if they were chords
they'd be C#: 9-11-11-10-9-9, B: 799877, and B7: 797877.
Some might choose to play these all as 7ths if they
were playing them as chords.
C# B
'Cuz who supplies ...
C# B
It's not your ...
B7
Or your best ...
...And back to Em and the Hi-Lo verse part.
The end section:
--------------------
--------------------
--------------------
--------------------
---2---1---2---1----
0-----------------3- D (XX0232)
...Our law and or-der's never-never-never-never-never gonna break down
Repeat 3 times, and on the last repeat (remember there's
an extra "never"), end (on "Down") with a chord which
might be described as E5 (add Bb): 022300.
As for the outro, it starts with the same E5 (addBb) chord,
then switches to XX4442, and up to XXX775, XXX997, XXX9-12-10,
and XXX-9-11-9, as the song fades out.
--------------------------------------
@SONG: THE LIZARD
A Em D7 C G
You wear the lizard's shoes and afterwards ....
@SONG: MEAT
E is played as [listen for rhythm] a sort of switch between E and A.
or as just a plain E, if you're into simplifying things.
E
It don't feel much like a ...
It don't feel much like a ...
A E
It don't feel much like a ...
A B
It don't feel much like a girl .....
It don't feel much like a ....
B E
Oh come on baby (doo-doo-doot) .....
@SONG: ACID BIRD
Intro:
D:-0--0-0-0----------------------------
A:---0-0-0-0---------------------------
D
Sucking on a tap ...
A
Could you take it ....
G D
Bending blood, ...
A
The father stood, the ...
D A D A
Like shadow on an acid bird that ....
D E A
So long ...
G
Fun in the sun, ...
A G
Shallow bodies ....
G
Fun in the sun, hair ...
A G
Tadpoles shooting ....
@SONG: I WATCH THE CARS
* E:-0-0h3-0-3-5-3----------
E *
I watch the ....
I watch the cars ...
I watch the cars ....
A(5)
Sometimes south ....
E *
I watch the cars....
I hear the ....
A(5)
I wonder who ....
E *
I'm getting ...
I see the men ...
I see the ....
A(5)
They go to ....
Who never mind ....
E *
The prostitutes ....
Alright!
I hear you're gonna try that too
I hear you're gonna ....
A(5)
I wouldn't pay to ....
I watch the cars go ...
A(5)
Sometimes south ....
E *
I watch ....
@SONG: OUT OF THE PICTURE
[I'm a bit unsure about the verse]
A D E
Don't you ever ....
Don't you feel sad...
D A E
There is no escaping ....
A D E
She's never really ...
D
And I'm walking out of ....
E A E D
Leaving everything behind .....
D
She's not just a ...
E
She's a big black ....
A D
She swallows everything .....
@SONG: CITY OF SHAME
E D
It was in the ...
E D
That I found I ....
A(5) B(7)
I was looking for a ....
A(5) B(7)
I discovered that .....
D A
La, la, la...
E A
La, la, la, ...
A E
La, la, la...
A D
La, la, la....
It was in the ....
.......by several men
E A
La, la, la....a
E D
La, la, la....
[repeat as needed]
@SONG: LOVE
D G
The sun is shining ...
C D
I see that nothing ...
D C
I move ...
G D
And choose the ...
D C D
Ah, ah, ah - I'm ...
Dancing On God's Thumb (3:40)
----------------------
Intro: [Soft Boys version]
e:-0----0-1-2-3----0-1-2-7-5-??-3-0-
[the ?? is either a 5 or a 3. Kimberly plays it very fast and
very distorted, so I can't properly tell. If you can, let me
know]
B(7) A(5)
I don't mind walking ....
I don't mind waiting where ...
But when I don't have ...
E D
I hate everything ....
I don't mind waiting 'til the .....
You know the first to ....
B(7) A(5) G(3) B(7)
We are all dancing ....
We are all dancing .....
Terry "The Human Mellotron" Marks
a013645t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us
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