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THERE'S NO DRINKING AFTER YOU'RE DEAD (Paul Weller)

Capo at 4th fret:

C#m: x 0 2 2 1 0
B: 3 x 0 0 0 3
F#m: x x 0 2 3 1
F#m7: x x 0 2 1 1
F#m6: x x 0 2 0 1
B/D#: x 2 0 0 0 3
D#m: x 2 4 4 3 2
C#7: x 0 2 0 2 0 and x 0 2 0 2 3
Ddim: x 1 2 0 2 3
C#m7: x 0 2 0 1 0
F#: x x 0 2 3 2

Riff 1:

C#m

E: --------0--0---
B: --------1--1---
G: --------2--0---
A: -----0-----0---
E: ---------------

(0 = 4th fret of guitar)

Intro: C#m (w/riff 1)

C#m (w/riff 1) B
Come taste the wine - come lose yourself
C#m (w/riff 1) B
Taste this time - but keep it well -
F#m F#m7 F#m6
Only love it all -
C#m
With heart and head
B B/D# D#m C#7 F#m Ddim C#m
For there is no drinking, af - ter you're dead

F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 C#m7

C#m (w/riff 1) B
Dive and swim - in the amber ocean
C#m (w/riff 1) B
See all that you can - in this new emotion
F#m F#m7 F#m6
And embrace it now -
C#m
Before it's skin sheds
B B/D# D#m C#7 F#m Ddim C#m
For there is no drinking, af - ter you're dead

F#m7 C#m7 F#m7 C#m7

C#m (w/riff 1) B
Stand back to back - with yourself again
C#m (w/riff 1) B
As you spin and reel - like a new found friend,
F#m F#m7 F#m6
And have it all -
C#m
With heart and hands
B B/D# D#m C#7 F#m Ddim C#m
For there is no love ma - king, af - ter you're dead


F# B
And today is but a second - if tomorrow you may die
Ddim F#m
And empty pages glistening - in eternity's lie
F# B
And time is but an essence - encased upon the wall
Ddim F#m C#m
That brings our day of reckoning - Much closer to us all.

C#m (w/riff 1) B
Light the candle - and burn it well
C#m (w/riff 1) B (tacet)
For only time knows - what it cannot yet tell,
F#m F#m7 F#m6
Only love it all
C#m
with heart and head
B B/D# D#m C#7 F#m Ddim C#m
For there is no drinking, Af - ter you're dead

F#m B F#m7 C#m7

C#m (w/riff 1) - repeat riff 1 to fade.

The other riff which appears at the end (and during some verses) is something like:

C#m

E: ----------------
B: ----0(h)1(b)----
G: --2----------2--
D: ----------------
A: ----------------
E: ----------------

h = hammer-on
b = string bend

Transcribed by Shaun Hand - 7th August 2000 - 18.45pm
This took me ages to work so I hope its right, if not, please correct
me!

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