Matthew Bellamy

Birth name	Matthew James Bellamy
Born	9 June 1978 (1978-06-09) (age 32) Cambridge, England
Genres	Alternative rock Progressive rock New prog Symphonic rock Space rock Progressive metal
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, composer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, synth guitar, piano, organ, mandolin, harmonium, keytar, mellotron, CS1
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Warner Bros., Mushroom Records
Associated acts	Muse
Website	muse.mu

Matthew James Bellamy (born 9 June 1978) is an English musician and composer, best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and main songwriter of the alternative rock band Muse.
Bellamy's father, George, was rhythm guitarist in the 1960s pop group The Tornados, who were the first British band to have a United States number one song, with "Telstar".[1] "Knights of Cydonia", a single from Muse's fourth album Black Holes and Revelations, is often cited as a tribute to that song, with its space rock sound and accompanying video depicting a cowboy's quest through a human landscape. Bellamy's mother, Marilyn, was born in Belfast, and moved to England in the 1970s. On her first day in England she met George, who was at the time working as a taxi driver in London. They later moved to Cambridge, where Matthew's older brother Paul was born, followed a couple of years later by Matthew himself. Bellamy started playing the piano at age 6 and guitar when he was 14.

In the mid-1980s, the family moved to Teignmouth, Devon. After the divorce of Bellamy's parents, he moved in with his grandmother, who pushed him towards learning to play the guitar at the age of fourteen.
Muse formed in Teignmouth, Devon in 1994 under the name of Rocket Baby Dolls. Still using the name Rocket Baby Dolls, they won the school's "Battle of the Bands" which led them to take the band seriously, and decided to change their name to a more "professional" one, Muse. The band consisted and still consists of Matthew Bellamy, Christopher Wolstenholme (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Dominic Howard (drums and percussion). Muse met at Teignmouth Community College where Bellamy had been in a number of bands previously including Carnage Mayhem and Gothic Plague with drummer Dominic Howard. When members of Gothic Plague left due to other interests, Bellamy and Howard asked Wolstenholme to join. Muse however struggled to establish themselves during their early years, but have since gone on to enjoy worldwide success.

Muse blend alternative, hard rock, progressive rock, classical music and electronica and are well known for their energetic and visually dazzling live performances. On 16–17 June 2007 Muse became the first band to sell out the newly built Wembley Stadium in London. Muse has released five studio albums, Showbiz (1999), Origin of Symmetry (2001), Absolution (2003), Black Holes and Revelations (2006) and The Resistance (2009). Muse have also released one live album, HAARP (2008) and two compilation albums. The first, Random 1-8 was only released in Japan and is a collection of B Sides from the Showbiz period. The second compilation Hullabaloo (2002) consisted of two discs and was designed to accompany the Hullabaloo DVD. The first disc contains a collection of B-sides recorded between March 1999 and October 2001. The second disc features 11 live songs recorded on 28–29 October 2001 at 'le Zenith' in Paris. Bellamy also makes an appearance as a playable character in Guitar Hero 5, which features the song "Plug in Baby", from Origin of Symmetry.

Knights of Cydonia

INTRO
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B|------1-------|
G|-0----0----0--|
D|-2----2----2--|
A|-2----2----2--|
E|--------------|
Tremolo pick as fast as you can finishing off nice and loud.
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|-----------|
D|-----------|
A|-14/////---|
E|--------0--|
The slide progresses straight into the opening note of the the studio intro.
STUDIO INTRO
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Played distorted with wide vibrato on every note.
e|------------------|
B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|------------------|
A|------------------|
E|-0---2-3--5-5--7--| x4
Played either clean or acoustic. This can be heard on the track
layered under the main guitar.
e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|-------------------222---222---444--|
D|-222---444---555---222---222---444--|
A|-222---444---555---000---000---222--|
E|-000---222---333--------------------| x4
DUD DUD DUD DUD DUD DUD
This comes in over the 3rd repetition - All tremolo picking.
Played with a light overdrive.
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|-7p6h7--9p7h9--10-9h10--12--10--9h10p9--7--6--|
E|----------------------------------------------| x2
Tremolo pick as fast as you can finishing off nice and loud.
e|-----------|
B|-----------|
G|-----------|
D|--------2--|
A|-14/////2--|
E|--------0--|
Played with a heavy distortion or a fuzz effect, make sure every note is well
defined,
the tremolo arm is rocked back vigorously to achieve the correct sound, if you don't
have
tremolo system on your guitar then tremolo picking is a good substitute.
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D--------------------------------------------------------|
A-10--9-7-5--7-9-10--9-7-5--6--7-9-7--10-12-13--12-13-14-|
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All tremolo picking. Aim for a cleaner tone with perhaps with a little reverb.
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D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
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B|-------16-----------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
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Played clean with delay. Try and make it sound off time, like it filters through from
else.
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G|-----------------------------------|
D|-9-9-9-9-11-11-11-9-9-8h9p8-8h9p8--|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
VERSE
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Listen to the track for the right timing.
Come Me Veins History
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B|-4-----7-----9-----7--|
G|-4-----8-----9-----8--|
D|-6-----9-----9-----9--|
A|-6-----9-----7-----9--|
E|-4-----7-----------7--|
Show God Asleep Job
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B|-8-----9-----3-----7--|
G|-8-----9-----4-----8--|
D|-8-----9-----5-----9--|
A|-6-----7-----5-----9--|
E|-------------3-----7--|
How Win Fools Kings
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B|--8-----7-------8------8--|
G|---9-----8-----9-------7--|
D|-----------------------9--|
A|-----------------------10-|
E|--------------------------|
Don't Time Will Waste You
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B|-7-----8-----8-----7-----8--|
G|-8-----9-----7-----8-----9--|
D|-9-----10----9-----9-----9--|
A|-9-----10----10----9-----7--|
E|-7-----8-----------7--------|
BRIDGE
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Played distorted with wide vibrato on every note.
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B|------------------|
G|------------------|
D|------------------|
A|------------------|
E|-0---2-3--5-5--7--| x4
Played either clean or acoustic. This can be heard on the track
layered under the main guitar.
e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|-------------------222---222---444--|
D|-222---444---555---222---222---444--|
A|-222---444---555---000---000---222--|
E|-000---222---333--------------------| x4
DUD DUD DUD DUD DUD DUD
This comes in over the 3rd repetition - All tremolo picking.
Played with a light overdrive.
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|-7p6h7--9p7h9--10-9h10--12--10--9h10p9--7--6--|
E|----------------------------------------------| x2
Tremolo pick as fast as you can finishing off nice and loud.
e|-19/////---|
B|-----------|
G|-----------|
D|--------2--|
A|--------2--|
E|--------0--|
REFRAIN
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G|-9----| G|-7----| G|-6----| G|-9----| G|--9---| D|--9---| D|--9---| D|--7---| D|--9---| D|--9----------|
A|---7--| A|---9--| A|---8--| A|---7--| A|--7---| E|------| x8 E|------| x8 E|------| x8 E|------| x4 E|------| x10--|
PM ... PM ... PM ... PM ... PM .
BREAKDOWN
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G|----------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------5------|
A|-5h7-7-7-5h7-7-7--5h7-7-7--5h7-7---7-5--|
E|----------------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|-5p2-2-2-5p2-2-2-5p2-2-2--5-7-7--|
E|---------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|
A|-7p0-0-0-7p0-0-0-7p0-0-0--7-5-3--|
E|---------------------------------|
You can choose to play the harmonic 3* or just another open E (0).
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B|---------------------|-------------------|
G|---------------------|-------------------|
D|---------------------|-------------------|
A|---------------------|-------------------|
E|-3p0-0-3*-3p0-0-3*-3p0-0-3*-3p0-0-3-5-7--| x6
Played over the 4th repetition.
e|-12--7--3--10--9--7--5h7p5--3-|
B|------------------------------|
G|------------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------| x2
LIVE OUTRO SOLO
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If you don't wish to play the live version just continue to the outro below.
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|-5h7-7-7-5h7-7-7-5h7-7-7-5h7-7-7-5h7-7-5h7-7--|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------|
A|-7h9-9-9-7h9-9-9-7h9-9-9-7h9-9-9-7h9-9-7h9-9--|
E|----------------------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-10h12-12-12-10h12-12-12-10h12-12-12-10h12-12-12-10h12-12-10h12-12--|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-12h14-14-14-12h14-14-14-12h14-14-14-12h14-14-14-12h14-14-12h14-14--|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------|
G|------12h14-14b15r14-12----------12h14-14b15r14-12----|
D|-12h14-----------------14---12h14-----------------14--|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|------12h14-14b15r14-12p11--------12h14-14b15r14-12p11--|
D|-12h14-----------------------12h14----------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
G|------12h14-14b15r14-12h14--------12h14-14b15r14-12p14--|
D|-12h14-----------------------12h14----------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--12-12-12-12-12-12
-15-15-15-15-15-17b-17b-17b-17b-17b-17b-----|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------15/3--|
OUTRO
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B|---------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|
E|-3p0-0-0--3p0-0-0--3p0-0-0--3p0-5-6-7--|
e|-----------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------5h7-7-5h7-7--|
E|-3p0-0-0--3p0-0-0--3p0-0-0---------------| x2
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A|---|
E|-0-|

Keith Richards

Birth name	Keith Richards
Also known as	Keith Richard
Born	18 December 1943 (1943-12-18) (age 66) Dartford, Kent, England
Genres	Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, blues, rock, reggae, country
Occupations	Musician, singer–songwriter, record producer, actor
Instruments	Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Decca, Rolling Stones, Virgin
Associated acts	The Rolling Stones, The Dirty Mac, The New Barbarians, The X-Pensive Winos
Website	keithrichards.com

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 he ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which are listed by Rolling Stone magazine among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Keith Richards, the only child of Bert Richards and Doris Dupree Richards, was born in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory labourer who was slightly injured during World War II. The family was evacuated from their flat on Chastilian Road when it was hit by a Nazi V-1 flying bomb on 5 July 1944 (the flat was unoccupied at the time).

Richards's paternal grandparents were socialists and civic leaders.[4] His maternal grandfather (Augustus Theodore Dupree), who toured Britain in a jazz big band called Gus Dupree and his Boys, was an early influence on Richards's musical ambitions and got him interested in playing guitar.

Richards's mother introduced him to the music of Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, and bought him his first guitar, a Rosetti acoustic, for seven pounds. His father was less encouraging, telling his son to 'Stop that bloody noise.'" Richards's first guitar hero was Scotty Moore.

Richards attended Wentworth Primary School, as did Mick Jagger; the two knew each other as schoolboys, and lived in the same neighbourhood until 1954. That year the Richards family moved to what Richards has described as "a fucking soul-destroying council estate at completely the other end of town" that looked like "a disgusting concrete jungle". The move was disorienting for the young Richards, as was his transfer a year later to Dartford Technical School (now and split into two schools named Wilmington Grammar School for Boys and Wilmington Enterprise College), which he attended from 1955 to 1959. The Dartford Tech choirmaster Jake Clair noticed Richards's singing voice and recruited him into the school choir. In a trio of boy sopranos Richards sang (among other performances) at Westminster Abbey in front of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1959, Richards was expelled from Dartford Technical School for truancy, and the headmaster suggested he would be more at home at the art college in the neighbouring town of Sidcup. At Sidcup Art College Richards devoted his time to playing guitar after he heard American blues artists like Little Walter and Big Bill Broonzy. He swapped a pile of records for his first electric guitar, a hollow-body Höfner cutaway. Fellow Sidcup student and future musical colleague Dick Taylor recalls, "There was a lot of music being played at Sidcup, and we'd go into the empty classrooms and fool around with our guitars. ... Even in those days Keith could play most of [Chuck Berry's] solos." Taylor also remembers Richards experimenting with various drugs at Sidcup: "In order to stay up late with our music and still get to Sidcup in the morning, Keith and I were on a pretty steady diet of pep pills, which not only kept us awake but gave us a lift. We took all kinds of things – pills that girls took for menstruation, inhalers like Nostrilene, and other stuff. Opposite the college there was this little park with an aviary that had a cockatoo in it. Cocky the Cockatoo we used to call it. Keith used to feed it pep pills and make it stagger around on its perch. If ever we were feeling bored we'd go and give another upper to Cocky."
Richards, 1965 Photo: Kevin Delaney

One morning in 1961, on the train journey from Dartford to Sidcup, Richards happened to get into the same carriage as Mick Jagger, who was then a student at the London School of Economics. They recognized each other and began talking about the LPs Jagger had with him – blues and rhythm & blues albums he had acquired by mail-order from America. Richards was surprised and impressed that Jagger not only shared his enthusiasm for Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters but also that he owned such LPs which were extremely rare in Britain at the time. The two discovered that they had a mutual friend in Dick Taylor, with whom Jagger was singing in an amateur band called Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Jagger invited Richards to a rehearsal and soon afterwards Richards also joined the line-up. The group disbanded after Jagger, Richards and Taylor met Brian Jones and Ian Stewart, with whom they went on to form The Rolling Stones (Taylor left the band in November 1962 to return to art school).

By mid-1962 Richards had left Sidcup Art College in favour of pursuing his fledgling musical career and moved into a London flat with Jagger and Jones. His parents divorced about the same time. Richards maintained close ties with his mother, who was very supportive of his musical activities, but he became estranged from his father and did not resume contact with him until 1982.

In 1963 Richards dropped the "s" from his surname and began using the professional name "Keith Richard", because Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham felt it "looked more pop". (He used the s-less version as his pen name and stage name until the late 1970s.)

Cocaine Blues tab by Keith Richards
Intro

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Verse 1 (Play twice)

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Bridge

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Instrumental

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George Harrison

Also known as	Carl Harrison L'Angelo Misterioso Hari Georgeson Nelson/Spike Wilbury George Harrysong George O'Hara-Smith
Born	25 February 1943(1943-02-25) Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Died	29 November 2001 (aged 58) Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Rock, pop, psychedelic rock, experimental, world
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, film producer
Instruments	Guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards,ukulele, mandolin, sitar,tambura,sarod, swarmandal
Years active	1958–2001
Labels	Parlophone, Capitol, Swan,Apple,Vee-Jay, EMI,Dark Horse
Associated acts	The Quarrymen, The Beatles, Traveling Wilburys, Dhani Harrison
Website	GeorgeHarrison.com

George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience. Following the band's breakup, he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys, and also as a film and record producer. Harrison is listed at number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Harrison generally wrote one song per side from the Help! album onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's breakup, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the acclaimed and successful triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which came two singles: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for Ringo Starr, another former Beatle, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison.

Harrison embraced Indian culture and Hinduism in the mid 1960s, and helped expand Western awareness of sitar music and of the Hare Krishna movement. With Ravi Shankar he organised a major charity concert with the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh, and is the only Beatle to have published an autobiography, with I Me Mine in 1980.

Besides being a musician, he was also a record producer and co-founder of the production company HandMade Films. In his work as a film producer, he collaborated with people as diverse as the members of Monty Python and Madonna. He was married twice, to the model Pattie Boyd in 1966, and to the record company secretary Olivia Trinidad Arias in 1978, with whom he had one son, Dhani Harrison. He was a close friend of Eric Clapton. Harrison died of lung cancer in 2001.

American film director Martin Scorsese has announced that he is making a George Harrison documentary titled Living in the Material World: George Harrison.

Harrison was born in Liverpool, England, on 25 February 1943,[11][12] the last of four children to Harold Hargreaves Harrison and his wife Louise, née French.[13]
Exterior of a red brick building. Visible are a black door with a small window just above it, two larger windows to the left of the door, one above the other, and a flowerpot between the door and the lower larger window
Harrison's first home - 12 Arnold Grove

He had one sister, Louise, born 16 August 1931, and two brothers, Harry, born 1934, and Peter, born 20 July 1940. His mother was a Liverpool shop assistant, and his father was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line. The family was Roman Catholic; his maternal grandfather, John French, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, emigrating to Liverpool where he married a local girl, Louise Woollam.

Harrison was born in the house where he lived for his first six years: 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool, which was a small 2 up, 2 down terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with an alley to the rear. The only heating was a single coal fire, and the toilet was outside. In 1950 the family were offered a council house, and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.

His first school was Dovedale Primary School, very close to Penny Lane, the same school as John Lennon who was a couple of years ahead of him. He passed his 11-plus examination and achieved a place at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (in the building that now houses the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), which he attended from 1954 to 1959. George said that, when he was 12 or 13, he had an "epiphany" of sorts - riding a bike around his neighbourhood, he heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" playing from a nearby house and was hooked. Even though he did well enough on his 11-plus examination to get into the city's best high school, from that point on, the former good student lost interest in school. When Harrison was 14 years old, he sat at the back of the class and tried drawing guitars in his schoolbooks: “I was totally into guitars. I heard about this kid at school who had a guitar at £3 10s, it was just a little acoustic round hole. I got the £3 10s from my mother: that was a lot of money for us then.” Harrison bought a Dutch Egmond flat top acoustic guitar. While at the Liverpool Institute, Harrison formed a skiffle group called The Rebels with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly. At this school he met Paul McCartney, who was one year older. McCartney later became a member of John Lennon's band called The Quarrymen, which Harrison joined in 1958.

"My Sweet Lord"

INTRO:

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SOLO:

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e |------------18---16\14----18\15---15\12---12\9---9/12---15----------------|
A#|--------------------------18\15---15\12---12\9---9/12---15----17----17----|
G |--20\18-------------------------------------------------------16----16----|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


e |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A#|---17\15-----12\10--------------------------------------------------------|
G |---16\15-----11\10--------------------------------------------------------|
D |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

* you'll need to use your finger for the last 2 slides down.

That's about everything the lead guitar does. The intro goes clean and the
switch to the left while the solo has some distortion with the switch to the
right, right?.
This different tuning is absolutely correct, there's no other way of playing it.
It's totally worth to try it and a slide shouldn't cost more than $10.

As for the chords they go like:

(capo = 2nd)

Em - A7 (VERSE)
D - Bm - D - Bm - D - D#dim (CHORUS)
D - D7 - B - E - Fdim (BRIDGE)

F#m - B7 (VERSE)
E - C#m - E - C#m - E - Fdim (CHORUS)

EADGBE
D#dim:XX1212
Fdim :XX3434


| / slide up
| \ slide down

Willie Nelson

Birth name	Willie Hugh Nelson
Born	April 30, 1933 (1933-04-30) (age 77)
Origin	Abbott, Texas, U.S.
Genres	Country, country rock, outlaw country, alternative country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician, producer, actor, activist
Instruments	Acoustic guitar, vocals
Years active	1956–present
Labels	Liberty, RCA, Atlantic, Columbia,Island, Justice Records, Lost Highway
Associated acts	Waylon Jennings, The Highwaymen, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Ray Price,Snoop Dogg,Merle Haggard, Kurt Nilsen,Faron Young,Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Juice Newton, Toby Keith,Sheryl Crow,Norah Jones,Neil Young
Website	www.willienelson.com

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor and activist. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, and remains iconic, especially in American popular culture.

Now in his 70s, Willie Nelson continues to tour and has performed in concerts and fundraisers with other major musicians, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Dave Matthews. He also continues to record albums prolifically in new genres that embrace reggae, blues, jazz, folk,
Nelson was born and raised in Abbott, Texas, the son of Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson, a mechanic and pool hall owner. His mother left six months after his birth; his father, a few years later.

His grandparents William Alfred Nelson and Nancy Elizabeth Smothers, whom he and his sister Bobbie called "Daddy" and "Mama," gave him mail-order music lessons starting at age six. He wrote his first song when he was seven and was playing in a local band at age nine. Willie played the guitar, while his sister Bobbie played the piano. He met Bud Fletcher, a fiddler, and two siblings joined his band, Bohemian Fiddlers, while Nelson was in high school. While he was in high school he took part in the Future Farmers of America organization.

Beginning in high school Nelson worked as a disc jockey (DJ) for local radio stations. He had short DJ stints with KHBR in Hillsboro, Texas, and later with KBOP in Pleasanton, Texas, while singing locally in honky tonk bars.

Nelson graduated from Abbott High School in 1951. He joined the Air Force the same year but was discharged after nine months due to back problems. He then studied agriculture at Baylor University for one year in 1954.

In 1956, Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, to begin a musical career, recording "Lumberjack," which was written by Leon Payne. The single sold fairly well, but did not establish a career. Nelson continued to work as a radio announcer in Vancouver and sing in clubs. He sold a song called "Family Bible" for $50; the song was a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, has been covered widely and is often considered a gospel music classic.
Nelson moved to Nashville in 1960, but was unable to land a record label contract. He did, however, receive a publishing contract at Pamper Music. After Ray Price recorded Nelson's "Night Life" (reputedly the most covered country song of all time), Nelson joined Price's touring band as a bass player. While playing with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, many of Nelson's songs became hits for some of country and pop music's biggest stars of the time. These songs include "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), "Pretty Paper" (Roy Orbison) and most famously, "Crazy" (Patsy Cline). Willie later did an album with Ray Price in 1980 called San Antonio Rose. Nelson signed with Liberty Records in 1961 and released several singles, including "Willingly" (sung with his soon-to-be second wife, Shirley Collie) and "Touch Me".

He was unable to impress Nashville producers with his singing voice, and Nelson's singing career in Nashville did not take off. Demo recordings from his years as a songwriter for Pamper Music were later discovered and released as Crazy: The Demo Sessions (2003).
In 1965, Nelson moved to RCA Victor Records and joined the Grand Ole Opry. He released a string of standard, mid-1960s Nashville Sound-inspired country albums, mostly produced by Chet Atkins. He had a number of mid-level chart hits throughout the remainder of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, before retiring and moving to Austin, Texas. While in Austin, with its burgeoning "hippie" music scene (see Armadillo World Headquarters), Nelson decided to return to music. His popularity in Austin soared, as he played his own brand of country music marked by rock and roll, jazz, western swing, and folk influences. A lifelong passion for running and a new commitment to his own health also began during this period.

In the mid 1970's, Nelson purchased property near Lake Travis in Austin and converted Pedernales Country Club into the Perdernales Studio. The studio underwent state of the art renovations in the mid 1990's, and many top recording artists adorn its client list. Its amenities include a 9-hole golf course, tennis courts and an Olympic size swimming pool.

"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
this is the solo in the middle of the song ok

--------2-------2/4-----4b-----4--------4b--4-------7----6-
------5-----------------------------5-----------5--9----8--
----4-----------------------------4------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------


--5--------4---2---(2)-------5------7------7--------------2-
--7---------------------------------------9------------5----
-------------------------4---------------------------4------
--------------------------------------------------(9)-------
------------------------------------------------------------
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--2h4-----4--4--4b----4---(4)------2---4--4b----2b4p2-----4-
----------------------------------5---------5h3-------------
---------------------------------4---------4----------------
---------------------------------------(9)------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
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--2------4h2--2-------2h4--2--------------------------------
------------------------------5-----5----4-------3--------3-
--------------------4-------------------2-------1--------0--
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--------------------------------------3-------2----2--1---1-
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-------------2----------------------------------------------
---------2--------------------------------------------------
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-----0------------------------------------------------------
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ok that is the solo for this song . this is also my first time
typing tab up so bear with me ok im tryin. have fun with it and
make it your own.

Neil Young

Birth name	Neil Percival Young
Also known as	Bernard Shakey,[1] Phil Perspective, Shakey Deal, Clyde Coil, Shakey, Joe Yankee,[1] Joe Canuck[1]
Born	November 12, 1945 (1945-11-12) (age 64) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Origin	Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"Music genre">Genres	"Rock music">Rock,folk rock,hard rock, country rock
Occupations	Musician, singer-songwriter,producer, screenwriter,director
Instruments	Guitar,vocals, harmonica,keyboards, piano
Years active	1960–present
Labels	Reprise, Motown, Geffen
Associated acts	The Squires The Mynah Birds Buffalo Springfield Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Crazy Horse The Stray Gators The Stills-Young Band The Ducks Northern Lights Pearl Jam Booker T. Jones Phish
Website	neilyoung.com

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is considered to be one of most influential musicians of his generation.Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He then forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968. It has spanned 50 years and 33 studio albums, with a continual exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers". He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame twice: first as a solo artist in 1995, and secondly as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997. Young has been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards, winning once.

Young's work is characterized by his distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto/tenor singing voice. Although he accompanies himself on several different instruments, including piano and harmonica, his clawhammer acoustic guitar and often idiosyncratic electric guitar playing are the defining characteristics of a sometimes ragged, sometimes melodic sound. While Young has experimented with differing music styles, including swing and electronic music throughout a varied career, his best known work usually falls into two primary styles: either acoustic folk and country rock, or amplified hard rock in collaboration with the band Crazy Horse. Young has also adopted elements from newer styles such as alternative rock and grunge. His influence on the latter caused some to dub him the "Godfather of Grunge".

Young has directed (or co-directed) a number of films using the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, including Journey Through the Past (1973), Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Human Highway (1982), Greendale (2003), and CSNY/Déjà Vu (2008). He is currently working on a documentary about electric car technology, tentatively titled Linc/Volt. The project involves a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to hybrid technology, which Young plans to drive to Washington, D.C. as an environmentalist example to lawmakers there.

Young is an outspoken advocate for environmental issues and the welfare of small farmers, having co-founded in 1985 the benefit concert Farm Aid. In 1986, Young helped found The Bridge School, an educational organization for children with severe verbal and physical disabilities, and its annual supporting Bridge School Benefit concerts, together with his wife Pegi Young (née Morton). Young has three children: Sons Zeke (born during his relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress) and Ben who were diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and daughter Amber Jean, like Young himself, with epilepsy. Young lives on his ranch in La Honda, California. Although he has lived in northern California since the 1970s and sings as frequently about U.S. themes and subjects as he does about his native country, he retains Canadian citizenship, which he has never wanted to relinquish. On July 14, 2006, Young was awarded the Order of Manitoba. On December 30, 2009, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

AFTER BERLIN - NEIL YOUNG

NOTE:
* Here are two versions of this song, one in standard
tuning and one in D-modal. Try it out to see which you
think sounds best.

Both versions submitted by: hector (hector_@gmx.net)


TUNING: standard

INTRO:
Dm7 Dm7 Bb
e-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
B-------6-8-6-----|-------6-8-6-----|---------6-8-6--|
G-----5-------5---|-----5-------5---|-------7--------|
D---7-----------7-|---7-----------7-|-----8----------| (x2)
A-5---------------|-5---------------|---8------------|
E-----------------|-----------------|-6--------------|

Dm7
Just like a young boy running down the road
Bb
I\'m singing out the same old song
Dm7
Can\'t go back the way I started from
Bb
The road goes on and on
Dm7
Won\'t you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Bb
Take my way on home
A
Help me make my way on home
Dm7
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7 Bb)

Lights are shining in the German sky
Cosmic walls between the moon and I
Don\'t know where I started from
So won\'t you take me, take me, take me, take me,
Take me, take me, take me, take me,
Just the way I am
Ah, take me, just the way I am
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7 Bb)

INTRO

All day cruising down the corridor
Seeing things I never seen before
Tomorrow morning in old Berlin
Where they lock you out or lock you in
Won\'t you save me, save me, save me, save me,
Save me, save me, save me, save me,
From the final day
Save me from the final day
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7 Bb)

Just like a young boy running down the road
I\'m singing out the same old song
I can\'t go back the way I used to go
The road goes on and on
Won\'t you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Find my way back home
Won\'t you help me make my way on home
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7 Bb)

Dm7
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Bb
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help me, help me.

SOLO (over Dm7 Bb)

END ON: Dm7

-----------------------------------------------------------------

TUNING: D-Modal: DADGBD

CHORDS: Dm7sus4: 000565 Bb: x88760 A7: x77055

INTRO:
Dm7sus4 Dm7sus4 Bb Bb
D--5-----5---------5-----5---------0-------------------0---0---0--|
B--6---6-----6-----6---6-----6-----6-------6-8---------6---6---6--|
G--5-5---------5---5-5---------5---7-----7-------7-----7---7---7--| (x2)
D--0---------------0---------------8-------------------8---8---8--|
A--0---------------0---------------8-------------------8---8---8--|
D--0---------------0---------------X-------------------X---X---X--|

Dm7sus4
Just like a young boy running down the road
Bb
I\'m singing out the same old song
Dm7sus4
Can\'t go back the way I started from
Bb
The road goes on and on
Dm7sus4
Won\'t you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Bb
Take my way on home
A7
Help me make my way on home
Dm7sus4
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7sus4 Bb)

Lights are shining in the German sky
Cosmic walls between the moon and I
Don\'t know where I started from
So won\'t you take me, take me, take me, take me,
Take me, take me, take me, take me,
Just the way I am
Ah, take me, just the way I am
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7sus4 Bb)

INTRO

All day cruising down the corridor
Seeing things I never seen before
Tomorrow morning in old Berlin
Where they lock you out or lock you in
Won\'t you save me, save me, save me, save me,
Save me, save me, save me, save me,
From the final day
Save me from the final day
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7sus4 Bb)

Just like a young boy running down the road
I\'m singing out the same old song
I can\'t go back the way I used to go
The road goes on and on
Won\'t you help me, help me, help me, help me,
Help me, help me, help me, help me,
Find my way back home
Won\'t you help me make my way on home
After Berlin.

SOLO (over Dm7sus4 Bb)

Dm
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Bb
Help me, help me, help me, help me.
Help me, help me, help me, help me.

SOLO (over Dm7sus4 Bb)

END ON: Dm7sus4

Billy Gibbons

Birth name : William Frederick Gibbons
Also known as : Willy Gibbons, BFG. Reverend Willy G.
Born : December 16, 1949 (1949-12-16) (age 60) Tanglewood, Houston, Texas, United States of America
Genres : Blues, electric blues, blues-rock, Texas blues, rock, Southern rock
Occupations : Entertainer, songwriter, actor, guitar designer
Instruments : Guitar, singing, harmonica, Electric piano
Years active : 1967-present
Associated acts : ZZ Top, Aerosmith, Moving Sidewalks, Brooks & Dunn
Website : The Official Website of Billy F Gibbons


William Frederick Gibbons (born 16 December 1949) is an American musician, actor and car customizer, and holder of 9 US patents, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Jupiter Thunderbird "BillyBo" guitar and his infamous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. He is noted for using a Mexican peso coin as a guitar plectrum and uses many pinch harmonics in his solos. A cornerstone in Hollywood, Gibbons remains a familiar fixture at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, producing studio sessions with actors Billy Bob Thornton and J.P. Shellnutt, Joe "Backbeat" Fazzio, along with musicians Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jed Leiber, and Dwight Yoakam. Gibbons is also well known for his authentic preparations of Mexican cuisine and is frequently a guest chef around Hollywood, California serving his famous "Renegade Guacamole".

Gibbons was born to Freddie Frederick Royal and Lorraine Gibbons in the Tanglewood suburb of Houston, Texas, with his father being an entertainer, orchestra leader, and concert pianist who worked alongside second cousin, art director, Cedric Gibbons, for Samuel Goldwyn at MGM Studios. In 1963, Gibbons received his first electric guitar following his thirteenth birthday, a sunburst Gibson Melody Maker, accompanied with a Fender Champ amplifier. While attending Warner Brothers' art school in Hollywood, California, Gibbons engaged with his first bands including The Saints, Billy G & the Blueflames, and The Coachmen. By 18, Gibbons went forward forming an artfully designed band , conceptually inspired by friend and fellow musician, Roky Erickson and The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, naming the group the "Moving Sidewalks", penning the hit single, "99th Floor" and engaging a friendship with the legendary, Jimi Hendrix and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.


"I Witnessed A Crime W- Billy Gibbons"

Intro
(sniff cough cough)    one two three ...
----------------------------------------------------|
------------x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x--x-x------------|
-(2)--------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2---2--------|
--2---------2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2---2--------|
----------0~~-------0~~-------0~~-------0--0--------|
----0-2-4------0~~--------0~~-------0~~------0-2-4--|

A                   D
I witnessed a crime, I should be tellin you it was mine.
                                    A
Cause there was nothin worse, she got the best of me first.
               E             A
And now Im alone and I, witnessed a crime.


     A
If someone ups and walks away is that a sin?
    D
I have no doubt she'll loo another man in.
                           A
I'd walk a mile to tell and testifie I fell
                     E              A
I'm servin time in hell Oh I, witnessed a crime


  D
I wanna say it came as a surpriiise,
      A
When she allowed the looks of other mens' eyes
                 E              A
and now Im alooone and I, witnessed a crime


Solo
---------------5-5-------5-5-------5-5-------5-5----|
-------------5-----5---5-----5---5-----5---5-----5--|
-----------6---------6---------6---------6----------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
----0-2-4-------------------------------------------|


------10-10-------10-10------10-10------10-10--|
----10-----10---10-----10--10-----10--10-------|
--11----------11---------11---------11---------|
-----------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------|
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---------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------|
--2~~---0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-2-4-2-4-2-4-2-4-2--|
--2~~---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--|
---------------------------------------------------|
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-------------------------------------------------...
--------------------------------------x-x---x-x--...
2-2-2-4-4-4-4-5-5-4-4-2-2-------------2-2---2-2--...
--------------------------4-2---------2-2---2-2--...
------------------------------3/4---0------------...
------------------------------------------0------...

A
It's left me walkin 'cross this empty floor,
      D
I just dont knoow if I can take it anymore.
                                  A
My thoughts wont let me be, my heart's abandoned me
                           E             A
And the memories won't deny that I witnessed a crime
                           E             A
And the memories won't deny that I witnessed a crime.

Gary Moore

Birth name : Robert William Gary Moore
Born : 4 April 1952 (1952-04-04) (age 58)Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Genres : Blues-rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz fusion
Occupations : Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments : Guitar, bass, vocals
Years active : 1969–present
Labels : Various
Associated acts : Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Phil Lynott, Cozy Powell, Greg Lake, Paul Rodgers, BBM
Website : Official website

Gary Moore (born Robert William Gary Moore, 4 April 1952, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish guitarist and singer.

In a career dating back to the 1960s, Moore has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, B.B. King, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the blues-rock band Skid Row (not to be confused with the glam metal band of the same name), as well as having a successful solo career. Among many cameo appearances over the years, he performed the lead guitar solo on "She's My Baby" from
Moore grew up on a road opposite Stormont, off the Upper Newtownards Road in east Belfast and started performing at a young age, having picked up a battered acoustic guitar at the age of eight. Moore got his first quality guitar at the age of 14, learning to play the right-handed instrument in the standard way despite being left-handed. Like so many others, Moore's early musical influences were artists such as Elvis Presley and The Beatles. Later, having seen Jimi Hendrix and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in his home town of Belfast, his own style was developing into a blues-rock sound that would come to dominate his career.

Moore's greatest influence in the early days came from guitarist Peter Green, of Fleetwood Mac fame, who was a mentor to Moore when performing in Dublin. Green's continued influence on Moore was later repaid as a tribute to Green on his 1995 album Blues for Greeny, an album consisting entirely of Green compositions. On this tribute album Moore played Green's 1959 Les Paul standard guitar which Green had loaned to Moore after leaving Fleetwood Mac. Moore ultimately purchased the guitar, at Green's request, so that "it would have a good home".

While somewhat less popular in the US, Moore's work has "brought substantial acclaim and commercial success in most other parts of the world – especially in Europe". Moore throughout his career has been recognised as an influence by many guitarists including Randy Rhoads, John Sykes and Kirk Hammett.

Moore has collaborated with a broad range of artistes including George Harrison, Trilok Gurtu, Dr. Strangely Strange, Colosseum II, Albert Collins, Jimmy Nail, Mo Foster, Ginger Baker, Jim Capaldi, Vicki Brown, Cozy Powell, the Beach Boys, Ozzy Osbourne and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He has experimented with many musical genres, including rock, jazz, blues, country, electric blues, hard rock and heavy metal.
In 1969 Moore joined the group Skid Row with Noel Bridgeman and Brendan "Brush" Shiels. It was with this group that Moore earned a reputation in the music industry, and his association with Phil Lynott began.

BLOOD OF EMERALDS
\ = Slide Down
/ = Slide Up
(F#) (E) (A) (Bm) (D) (E)
----14----16-14-12------------------------------------------------|
-14----------------14-------12----14-12---------------------------|
-------------------------14-------------14------------14---16-----|
---------------------------------------------16-14-16---------14--|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|


(F#) (E) (A) (Bm) (F#) (D) (Esus4) (E)
----14----16-14-12------------------------------------------------|
-14----------------14-------12----14-12--------------------14-12--|
-------------------------14-------------14------------14----------|
---------------------------------------------16-14-16-------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|




Electric guitar solo part...

------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------------------------8(9)-----9-|
------7---10(11)-7----------------7----11---9~11~9~7---------11---|
-7--9---------------9--7----7--9----------------------------------|
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------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------9----------------------------------------------------------|
-11------11---9---------------------------------------------------|
-------------------9//11---------9-11-9---7~9~7-------------------|
-------------------------12---------------------9---7--7//9-------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|




Guitar riff for here and for the chorus...

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4-----------4-----------------------|
[E]---2-2-2---0-2-----------------------|




(A) (F#)
I was born up on the North side, where the Lagan River flows.
(A) (F#) (E)
When I came across the border, I was following my nose.

(C#m) (F#) (A)
[G]-6-----------1-----2-----|
[D]-6------4----2-----2-----|
[A]-4------4----2-----0-----|
[E]--------2----------------|
Dublin city Sixty-nine,

(Bm) (D) (E)
there could have been no better place, there was no better time.

(C#m) (F#) (A)
[G]-6-------------------1-------2-----|
[D]-6-----------4-------2-------2-----|
[A]-4-----------4-------2-------0-----|
[E]-------------2---------------------|
Through the thunder and the rain,

(Bm) (D) (E) (F#m)
the deepest blood of emeralds was running through my veins.




Guitar riff for the chorus...

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|


[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|
Blood Of

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|
Emeralds

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|


[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-5-4-2-5-----------4-----------------|
[E]---------2-2-2---0-2-----------------|



(A) (F#)
I was down and out on Skid Row, but I held on to my pride.
(A) (F#) (E)
The darkest son of Ireland, he was standin' by my side.

(C#m) (F#) (A)
[G]-6-----------------1------2----|
[D]-6--------4--------2------2----|
[A]-4--------4--------2------0----|
[E]----------2--------------------|
We would sail the stormy seas.

(Bm) (D) (E)
Never looking back, we were afraid of what we'd see.

(C#m) (F#) (A)
[G]-6-------------------1-------2----|
[D]-6-----------4-------2-------2----|
[A]-4-----------4-------2-------0----|
[E]-------------2--------------------|
Through the thunder and the rain,

(Bm) (D) (E) (A)
the deepest blood of emeralds was running through our veins.



(C#m) (E) (A)
Some of us will win and some of us will lose,
(F#)
the strong will survive.
(G#m) (Bm)
Some of us will fall,
(D) (A) (Bm)
some of us won't get out of here alive.




Guitar riff for the chorus...

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|


[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|
Blood Of

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|
Emeralds

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|


[D]-------|
[A]-5-4-2-|
[E]-------|
Blood Of

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|
Emeralds

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|


[D]-------|
[A]-5-4-2-|
[E]-------|




A short Guitar solo...

----14-14-14-----11-12---11~12~11~----14-14-14----12-11-----------|
-14--------------------------------14-------------------14-12-----|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|


----14-14-14-----11-12---14-12------------------------------------|
-14----------------------------14-------12-14-12------------------|
----------------------------------14-14------------14-------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|


----14-14-14-----11-12---11~12~11~----14-14-14----12-11-----------|
-14--------------------------------14-------------------14-12-----|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|


----14-14-14-----11-12---14-12------------------------------------|
-14----------------------------14-------12-14-12-------15-14-12---|
----------------------------------14-14----------13-----7--6--5---|
----------------------------------------------------14------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|


[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|

[D]-------|-----------------------------|
[A]-5-4-2-|-4---------------------------|
[E]-------|---2-2-2---0-2---------------|

[G]-6-----------------------------------|
[D]---4-4-4-----4-----------------------|
[A]-----------7-------------------------|
[E]-------------------------------------|

[B]-14-------------9--9(10)-------------|
[G]----11-11-11----9-10(11)-------------|
[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-------------------------------------|
[E]-------------------------------------|




(A) (E) (F#)
I was angry, I was sad,
(E) (D) (E)
just thinking about the times we had.
(A) (E) (F#)
I felt so lost and lonely too,
(E) (D) (E)
what could I say, what could I do?
(D) (E) (F#)
After all, the time goes by.
(D) (E) (F#)
No one knows the reasons why.
(E) (D) (E) (F#)
You lived each day like there was no tomorrow.
(E) (D) (E) (F#)
You spent those years living on time you borrowed.
(E) (D) (E) (F#)
And in your eyes, all I could see was sorrow.




Here is the main Guitar Solo...

(A) (E) (F#) (E)
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------------------------8(9)-----9-|
------7---10(11)-7----------------7----11---9~11~9~7---------11---|
-7--9---------------9--7----7--9----------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|

(D) (F#) (Bm) (D) (E)
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------9-----------------------------------------------------------|
-11-----11---9----------------------------------------------11----|
-----------------9//11-----9-11-11(12)--11-9--8-8~9~8~---14----14-|
------------------------12----------------------------9-----------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|

(A) (E) (F#) (E)
----------------------------------------------------12---------12-|
------14----------------------------14-12~14~12~------------14----|
-14-------14-----------------11-14--------------14----------------|
--------------14//16-14---14--------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|

(D) (F#) (D) (E) (A)
-14---15(16)--14--12----9-----------------------------------------|
--------------------------12-10---12-12(14)--12---10~12~12~----10-|
-----------------------------------------------------------11-----|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|



(C#m) (E) (A)
Some of us will win and some of us will lose,
(F#)
the strong will survive.
(G#m) (Bm)
Some of us will fall,
(D) (A) (Bm)
some of us won't get out of here alive.



Repeat This Riff Till Fading...

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|

[D]-------------------------------------|
[A]-4---------------2-4---------4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5-------2-2-2-5-----4-0-|

[D]-------------------2-----------------|
[A]-4---------------4---4-----2-4-2-----|
[E]---2-2-2---4-5---------5-5-------4-0-|

[D]-------|
[A]-5-4-2-|
[E]-------|