VIOLENT FEMMES - "this island life" Tablature

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:24:23 -0500
From: Bryson Meunier <meunier.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: TAB:"This Island Life" by "Violent Femmes"

"THIS ISLAND LIFE" by the Violent Femmes

>From the album "NEW TIMES"(1994)
Written by Gordon Gano
Transcribed by Bryson Meunier

Here's a pretty cool song off of "New Times." It should be right but
if it's not(or if you just have additions, comments or questions) e-mail me
at meunier.1@osu.edu

intro(clean electric)-
B5 (palm mute)
E-----------------------------|
B-----------------------------|
G-----------------------------|
D------------4--4--4--4-------| (strum quietly)
A-----0---2--2--2--2--2-------|
E-----------------------------|

A lot of the verse just sounds like straight bass. The guitar
pattern that I could decipher sounds like this:
verse-
"This tea is too strong for me..."
E----------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------|
G----------------------------------------------|
D-----------------4---4---4\5---4----2----4----|
A----0---2----2--------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------|



repeat that a couple of times and then go into this:

E-----------------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------------|
G-----------------------------------------------|
D--------------9--9--9\10---9---7---9-----------|
A----0--7--7------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------|

The chorus is just an A chord followed by a B5
"This Island Life..."
A B5
E-----------------------------------------------|
B----2------------------------------------------|
G----2-----(strum)----------4-------------------|
D----2----------------------4-------------------|
A---------------------------2-------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------|

The overdub part of the solo sounds like this:
E----------------------------------------------------|
B--7~~~~~~~----8p7~~~~~~~------7p0-------------------|
G-------------------------7h9---------------7--------|
D--------------------------------------7h9------(9)--|
A----------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|


E----------------------------------------------------|
B--------------------------------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-|
G---------------7-------8--------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-|
D---------7h9-------9--------------------------------|
A---7h9----------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|

E--0--0--0-------9h10----7h9p7----5h7p5-------------|
B--5--8--7--------------------------------7---------|
G---------------------------------------------7---4-|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A---------------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|