JETHRO TULL - "minstrel in the gallery" Tablature

From: tarvydas@turing.toronto.edu (Paul Tarvydas)
Date: 19 Jul 95 19:22:14 GMT
Subject: CRD: Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the Gallery (acoustic)


Minstrel in the Gallery acoustic portion
Ian Anderson
(transcribed by Paul Tarvydas tarvydas@tsctrl.guild.org)


capo 2nd fret

all chords relative to capo

/ = down strum

\ = up strum

o = all strings open (if preceding Dsus2, then strings 1-4 open,
if preceding A, then strings 1-5 open, if preceding G, then 1-6
open)

note: The last line "the friends he'd made" is a typical Andersonian
chord-morph. You should play with the fingering until you find
a combination which moves the fewest fingers at one time. Anderson
likes to keep one finger planted and change the chords around it. In
this case, I think he does the following. He plants the 3rd finger of
the left hand as he changes from Dm to A7sus4. Am to C, he plants the
1st finger. C to Cadd9 he lifts the 3rd and places 2nd on the 6th
string, keeping the 1st and 4th fingers planted.


A Asus4 Am A7sus4 C Cadd9/F# Dsus2 Dsus4 Dm
-|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0--------0-----3-----1-
-|--2-----3-----1-----3-----1-----1--------3-----3-----3-
-|--2-----2-----2-----0-----0-----0--------2-----2-----2-
-|--2-----2-----2-----2-----2-----0--------0-----0-----0-
-|--0-----0-----0-----0-----3-----3----------------------
-|--------------------------3-----2----------------------

F G o-Dsus2 o-A o-G
-|--1-----3--------0--0-----0--0-----0--3----------------
-|--1-----3--------0--3-----0--2-----0--3----------------
-|--2-----0--------0--2-----0--2-----0--0----------------
-|--3-----0--------0--0-----0--2-----0--0----------------
-|--3-----2-----------------0--0-----0--2----------------
-|--1-----3--------------------------0--3----------------



/ / / / \
A Am C o Dsus2
The minstrel in the gallery

/ / / \
A Dsus2 o A
looked down upon the smiling faces.

/ / / / / \
F C F F o G
He met the gazes - observed the spaces

/ / /\ / \
Dsus2 o A
between the old men's cackle.

/ / / / / \
A Am C o Dsus2
He brewed a song of love and hatred -

/ /\/ /\/ /\/
G

/ / / \
G Dsus2 o A
oblique suggestions and he waited.

F C F G C
He polarized the pumpkin eaters -

F C F G C
static-humming panel-beaters -

F C F G C
freshly day-glow'd factory cheaters

F C F G C
(salaried and collar-scrubbing).

A Am C o Dsus2
He titillated men-of-action -

F C F F o G
belly warming, hands still rubbing

G Dsus2 o A
on the parts they never mention.

A Am C o Dsus2 G
He pacified the nappy-suffering,

G Dsus2 Dsus4 o A
infant-bleating one-line jokers -

F C F G C
T.V. documentary makers

F C F G C
(overfed and undertakers).

A Am C o Dsus2
Sunday paper backgammon players -

F C F C
family-scarred and women-haters.

F C F G C
Then he called the band down to the the stage

F C
and he looked at all

Dm A7sus4 Am C Cadd9/F# F
the friends he'd made.

(tr.) (tr.)
A Asus4

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