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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 18:08:25 -0500
From: Bryson Meunier
Subject: TAB:p/pixies/here_comes_your_man.tab
HERE COMES YOUR MAN
by the Pixies
off the "Doolittle" album
[note from transcriber: What follows should be more like what Joey plays
in the HCYM video than what was previously available at OLGA. Comments,
corrections, and additions are welcome.]
Intro riff:
E---------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------|
G---------------------------------------------|
D--------4--4--5---------------------0--2-----|
A--5--5-----------0------2--0--0--4--------5--|
E--------------------3------------------------|
[Intro riff 3 times]
verse:
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------7--------------------14-----------------8----------|
G-----7-------7---7------14---------14--------9-------9---9---|
D--\7--(7)------7----\14----14---------14/--9---9-------9-----|
A-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------|
B-------------12--------|
G------12--------12-----|
D--\12----12--------12/-|
A-----------------------|
E-----------------------|
D A
Outside there's a box car waiting
Em G
Outside the family stew
D A
Out by the fire breathing
Em G
Outside we wait til face turns blue
D A
I know the nervous walking
Em G
I know the dirty beard hangs
D A
Out by the box car waiting
Em G
Take me away to nowhere plains
[Bridge]
Bm G A D
E-----------------------------------------------------|
B--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--12-(8x)--10-(8x)--15-(9x)-|
G--11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--12--------9-------14------|
D-----------------------------------------------------|
A-----------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------------|
Bm G A
There is a wait so long (so long so long)
D
You'll never wait so long
[Chorus -- play with intro riff]
G A D
Here comes your man [3 times]
[Solo]
E----------------------------------------------------------------|
B----------------------------------------------------------------|
G--11--9-------------------------9---11--9----------11-11-9----9-|
D---------12--12--11--11--11h12-------------12--12----------12---|
A----------------------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------------------|
[play similar throughout verse]
They shake on the boxcar moving[?]
They shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes-a palms start blowing
A big big storm fall and break my crown
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Chords through solo: D A Em G ]
[solo]
[note: what follows is an approximation for one guitar. There are about
three audible guitars on this solo]
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
B--15-15-15-17-15-17-15----------------------------------------|
G--14-14-14-14-14-14-14--14-14-16-14-16-14--12-12-14-12-14-12--|
D------------------------14-14-14-14-14-14--12-12-12-12-12-12--|
A--------------------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------------------|
(3x)
E------------------|--------------------------------------------|
B------------------|--------------------------------------------|
G--12--12-12-12-12-|--------------------------------------------|
D--14--14-14-14-14-|--12-12-12--12-12-12-12\14-14-14--14-14-14--|
A------------------|--------------------------------------------|
E------------------|--------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------|
G---------------------------------------------|
D--14/12-12-12--12-12-12-12\14-14-14--14-14---|
A---------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------|
[Bridge]
[Repeat chorus to finish on D]
Original transcription by
schnitzi@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Revised and updated by
Bryson Meunier
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/bryson/
mailto:meunier.1@osu.edu
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