Tropicalia

Beck

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Song

Song: Tropicalia

Artist: Beck

Composer: Beck Hansen

Album: Mutations

Tabbed by DJ 1st Feb 2015

I would recommend using the voicings in the text

column numbers below.

Regarding the CHORD BOX DIAGRAMS please follow the

information at the bottom of the tab.

Bm7 = x24232 A7 = x02020 B9 = x2122x

Bm7/F# = 224232 G#m7 = 464444 E7 = 020130

G7 = 353433 C#9 = x4344x F#7 = 242322

Bb7 = x13131 F#m7 = 242222

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[Intro](See bottom of the page for tablature of riff)

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Verse 1

Oh, when they beat ...upon a broken guitar,

And all the streets ...they reek of tropical charms,

The embas - sies ...lie in hideous shards,

Where tourists snore and de - cay

Verse 2

Oh, when they dance ...in a reptile blaze,

You wear a mask, ...an equa - torial haze,

Into the past, ...a colonial maze,

Where there's no more confetti to throw

Bridge

You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,

Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,

Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be evict - ed

Break

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Verse 3

You're out of luck ...you're singing funeral songs...

To the studs, ...they're ana - bolic and bronze,

They seem to strut ...in their mil - lennial fog,

'Til they fall down and de - flate

Bridge

You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,

Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,

Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be evict - ed

Break

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Verse 4

Oh, and now you've had your fun,

Under an air-conditioned sun,

It's burned into your eyes,

Leaves you plain and left be - hind,

I'll see them rise and fall...

Into the jaws of a pestilent love

Bridge

You wouldn't know what to say to your - self,

Love is a poverty you couldn't sell,

Misery waits in vague ho - tels ...to be a vic - tim

Coda - Repeat and end on Bm7

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Play the song fingerstyle, the thumb playing the

bass notes, and the other fingers pluck upwards in a

syncopated Latin rhythm.

The top string is not really played.

Intro - Repeat the 4 bars again

Bm7 Bm7/F# G7

e|--------------------|-----------------------|
B|---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G|---2--2-----2---4---|---4----4--4----4------|
D|----------------3---|---3----3--3----3------|
A|---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E|---------2------3---|---3----3--3----3------|

Bm7 Bm7/F# G7

e|--------------------|-----------------------|
B|---3--3-----3-------|-----------------------|
G|---2--2-----2---4---|---4--4----4--4----4---|
D|----------------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|
A|---2--2-------------|-----------------------|
E|---------2------3---|---3--3----3--3----3---|

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For the GUITAR chord box diagrams to match my

suggested choices you need to manually select the

following choice of options by clicking on the

forward/backward arrows below eight of the diagrams

Bm7 B9 Bm7/F# E7 G7

<2 of 31> <8 of 15> <4 of 23> <3 of 47> <6 of 41>

C#9 F#7 F#m7

<8 of 15> <2 of 27> <3 of 33>

The remaining chord boxes can be the default first

option and don't need any reselecting