WHO - "rael" Tablature

From: Litgo@aol.com
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:38:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: TAB: Rael by: Who

Rael
By The Who
>From The Who Sell Out, 1967
Written by Pete Townshend

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transcribed by
litgo@aol.com
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Tune down whole step:
DGCFAD

[note: add one whole tone to each chord below to find shapes, e.g., C = D, F
= G, Bb = C ]

|| C C F G | C C F G ||
Ooh...

C C F G
The Red-chins in ....
C C F G
Will overspill their ...
C C F G C
And chaos then will....

The country of my fat...

Bb Ab
Rael, the home ...
Bb Ab G
To me the center ...

The Red-chins in their ....

My heritage ..
My roots are torn ...
And so to do my ...
C F G Bb Bb Bb Bb
And so to do my best ...

Bb (Bb/A) (Bb/G) F (F/Eb) (F/D) (F/C)
Now captain, listen ...
Bb F
Return to this spot on ....
Bb F
Look toward the ...
Bb Ab G
And then you'll know ...

|| G G G/F# C/G C/G G ||

G G/F# C/G G
If a yellow ...
G G/F# C/G G
Sickly herald ..
G G/F# F
Then you'll know my ...
C G C/G G
And you'll send your ...

But if a red flag is .....

Bb F
Now captain, listen ...
Return to this spot ...
Look toward the shore ...
Bb Ab G
And then you'll ...

|| G G G/F# C/G C/G G || A A A/Ab D/A D/A A || G...

|| Bb Bb Bb/A Eb/Bb Eb/Bb Bb ||

Ooh ooh ooh
Bb A Ab Eb Bb Eb/Bb Bb

D/C Dsus4 D(no3)/C D/C
|---4----||--5---0-------|-4----||
|---5----||--5---5-------|-5----||
|---4----||--4---4-------|-4----||
|--(0)---||--------------|(0)---||
|--------||--------------|------||
|--------||--------------|------||

C C5 Csus2 D/C
||-2----|-5---0--||--4-----|
||-3----|-3---3--||--5-----|
||-2----|-2---2--||--4-----|
||-0----|-0---0--||--------|
||------|--------||--------|
||------|--------||--------|


D/C Dsus4/C D(no3)/C D/C Dsus4/C D(no3)/C
He's crazy if he thinks ...
He's crazy if he ...
C C5 Csus2 D/C Dsus4/C D(no3)/C
He's crazy if he thinks we're ....
C C5 Csus2 D/C
He's crazy....

[bass only these 2 meas] D/C C D/C C D/C
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|
|--2-0x--|--2-0---------|--2-0x---|-2-0---------|
|--------|------3-2-0---|---------|-----3-2-0---|
|--------|------------2-|---------|-----------2-|

C Bb/C C Bb/C
|---------|-------------------|
|---------|-------------------|
|---------|-------------------|
|--0------|--0----------------|
|-----3x--|-----3--2--0-----0-|
|---------|--------------3----|

A
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||----------------|---------------||
||------------4-4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||
||-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
||----------------|---------------||

[Open C pedal throughout]
D/C C D/C C G/C D/C C D/C C D/C
|---4---2----|--4---2---5--|---4---2----|--4---2---4--|
|---5---3----|--5---3---5--|---5---3----|--5---3---5--|
|---4---2----|--4---2---6--|---4---2----|--4---2---4--|
|---0---0----|--0---0---0--|---0---0----|--0---0---0--|
|------------|-------------|------------|-------------|
|------------|-------------|------------|-------------|

E/C Ab/C E/C Ab/C E/C F/C
|---6---6---|---6---6---6--|---7----|--------|
|---7---6---|---7---6---7--|---8----|--------|
|---6---7---|---6---7---6--|---7----|--------|
|---0---0---|---0---0---0--|---0----|-0------|
|-----------|--------------|--------|--------|
|-----------|--------------|--------|--------|

F/C Fsus4/C F/C Fsus2/C F/C x2 F/C Fsus4/C F5/C
||--7-----8-----7----|-------------||-7-----8----|-10------|
||--8-----8-----8----|-10---10-8---||-8-----8----|-8-------|
||--7-----7-----7----|-----------7-||-7-----7----|-7-------|
||-(0)---------------|-------------||------------|-0-------|
||-------------------|-------------||------------|---------|
||-------------------|-------------||------------|---------|

F/C Fsus4/C F/C A
|-7-----8----|-7-------||----------------|---------------||
|-8-----8----|-8-------||----------------|---------------||
|-7-----7----|-7-------||----------------|---------------||
|------------|-0-------||------------4-4-|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||
|------------|---------||-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
|------------|---------||----------------|---------------||


D/C Dsus4
If a yellow ...
D(no3)/C D/C Dsus4/C
Sickly herald ...
D(no3)/C C C5
Then you'll know my ...
Csus2 C D
And you'll send ....

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Part II
[approx organ changes; can be played tuned down or in standard tuning:
EADGBE]


C
What I see is ...
F C
In my sweetest ...
F C
What I feel is ..
F Am
When by newborn ...
F C Am
What I know now ..
F
That has been ...
C
Bless the ...
F A5
And the god who ...