PITNEY GENE - "town without pity" Tablature

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"Town Without Pity"
(Dmitri Tiomkin - Ned Washington)

[Notes: 1) the time signature is 12/8, but is notated throughout as 4/4;
2) as usual, the chords notated here are a composite of the various
parts - I don't think there even is a guitar on the record.]

Intro:

Bmadd9 Emadd9
/ / / / / / / /

G9 F#7sus4 F#7+5
/ / / / / / / /

Verse 1:

Bm
When you're young and ...
Em
And bewildered by ....
F#m7-5/C B7
Why do people ...
Em7 Gm6
Only those in love ...
D/A A+ G6 C#7-5 F#7sus4 F#7+5-9
[x3400x] [21203x]
What a town without ...

Verse 2:

If we stop to gaze ...
People talk about ho...
Ours is not an ...
We're like tigers ...
A13 A7+5 A7 A13 D Am7/E D7/F#
What a town without ...

Bridge:

G G6/D Gmaj7 G6/D
The young have ....
G Bm7-5 /F E7sus4 E7
We need an ...
A A6/E Amaj7 F#m
Why don't they help us ..
Bm [N.C.] E [N.C.] A F#7+5-9
Before this clay ...

Verse 3:

Take these eager lips ...
I'm afraid this kind ..
How can we keep ....
How can anything s...
D/A A+ G6 C#7-5 F#7sus4 F#7
When these little ...
Gmaj7 A7 D G7+5
What a town without ....

[key change to Cm]

Instrumental break (first two lines of verse 3, in Cm; chord variations
implied by background vocals):

Cm Cm6 Cm/maj7 Cm
/ / / / / / / /

Fm Fm6 Fm/maj7 Fmadd9
/ / / / / / / /

Gm7-5/Db C7
How can we ...
Fm7 Abm6
How can anything ...
Eb/Bb Bb+ Ab6 D7-5 G7sus4 G7
When these little minds ...
Abmaj7 G7sus4 G7
What a town ...

Coda:

Cm /B /Bb /A /Ab G [N.C.]
No, it isn't very pretty ....
Cm
Ca-a-an do

1 11
(Cm) Fm Cm9/maj7 [808820]
/ / / / / / / / /
(...do)


-- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers

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