ROCKY HORROR - "time warp" Tablature

Subject: r/rocky_horror/time_warp.tab

Artist: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Title: "Time Warp"
Album: Original soundtrack

Composed by Richard O'Brien

Original tab sent in (but not written by)
Christopher Robert Milton (crmilton@mundil.cs.mu.oz.au)
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 16:58:00 +1000

Revised by Chris Clark <drclueful@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:39:04 -0500

Here are the correct chords and riffs. The original seems to be in
Ab, so retune if you play along to the record. Lots of hammered 6ths
throughout. To do the B5/A in the beginning, just lift your finger
off the B bass note and hit the open A. At the very end, twist the A
string's tuning peg downwards and collapse on the floor accordingly.

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Tab: Guitar
Tuning: Standard

A

A5 B5 B5/A B5
It's astounding...fleeting

G5 D5 A5
Madness...takes...toll

A5 B5
...closely...longer

G5 D5 A5
I've got to...control

A Bsus4 B
I remember...warp

G D A
Drinking...those...when

A B
The blackness...voice calling

F C G D A
Let's do...time warp again (x2)


It's just...

E riff (horns)

e -------------------I
B -------------------I
G -------------------I
D ----------------2--I
A ----------2--4-----I
E --O--3h4-----------I

A
And then a step...

E riff
Put your hands...

A
And pull your...

D
...pelvic thrust

A
Insane...

F C G D A
Let's do...time warp again (x2)


Columbia's verse

Riff before she starts singing
e ----------I
B ----------I
G -------2--I
D ----------I
A --Oh3-----I
E ----------I

A
Well I was...

D
He shook-a...

A
He had a...

E D
He stared at...felt a change...

A
Time meant...

F C G D A
Let's do...time warp again (x2)

Ending

e ---------------I
B ---6--5--4--2--I
G ---6--5--4--2--I
D ---6--5--4--2--I
A ------------O--I
E ---------------I
C# C B A

Symbols:
h = hammer-on

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Recommended chord positions

A5 (verse with hammered 6th)

e -------I
B -------I
G -------I
D --2h4--I
A --O----I
E -------I

B5 (verse)

e -------I
B -------I
G -------I
D --4h6--I
A --2----I
E -------I

B5/A

e -------I
B -------I
G -------I
D ----4--I
A --Oh2--I
E -------I

G5 (verse)

e -------I
B -------I
G -------I
D -------I
A --5h7--I
E --3----I

D5

e -------I
B -------I
G -------I
D --7h9--I
A --5----I
E -------I

A

e -----I
B --2--I
G --2--I
D --2--I
A --O--I
E -----I

Bsus4

e -----I
B --5--I
G --4--I
D --4--I
A --2--I
E -----I

B

e -----I
B --4--I
G --4--I
D --4--I
A --2--I
E -----I

G

e --3--I
B --3--I
G --4--I
D --5--I
A --5--I
E --3--I

D

e -----I
B --7--I
G --7--I
D --7--I
A --5--I
E -----I

F

e --1--I
B --1--I
G --2--I
D --3--I
A --3--I
E --1--I

C

e -----I
B --5--I
G --5--I
D --5--I
A --3--I
E -----I

A (Columbia)

e --5--I
B --5--I
G --2--I
D -----I
A -----I
E -----I

D (Columbia)

e --10-I
B --10-I
G --7--I
D -----I
A -----I
E -----I

E (Columbia)

e --12-I
B --12-I
G --9--I
D -----I
A -----I
E -----I