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Greedy

Boo Hewerdine
Tab

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

repeat the intro

Em C

You hate me changing it's the change you can't control

Em C

You hate me changing and the wandering of my soul

Am G +

searching the storm for some frozen calm*

Am G+6 B

if that's being greedy that's what I am

[instr.] :

repeat intro, then :

e --------------------------------------------------------------|
B --------------------------------------------------------------|
G --------------------------------------------------------------|
D ------------------------------------------7------9------------|
A -------5--7--7-----5---(5/)7------9--10-----------------------|
E ----7--------.--------7---------------------------------------|

(Em) (D) (Bm)

e ---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ----------------------------------------0----------------------------|
G -------------------------------0------2---0--------------------------|
D ----/14---/12---/9---7---5---4-----2--------------0--2--------2--4---|
A ---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------0------------0----------|

(Remember this is written in G, so move it up 2 frets if you're playing in A)

repeat intro and ad lib guitar to fade

EADGBe

022000 - Em

X32010 - C

X02210 - Am

320003 - G

X20003 - G/B

XX0000 - G+6

X24442 - B

/ is a slide up

h is a hammer on

p is a pull off

Strumming early on in the verse is the bass strings only, heavily damped by

your right hand resting on the bridge (almost so it sounds like a bass drum).

As the verse goes on bring in progressively more and more of the higher

strings.

+ This G could be G/B?or even another chord with B in the bass, although B

major, minor and their 7ths don't seem to fit.

* This could possibly be 'frozen qualm' (had it come from kd's clouds??), but

I also heard someone singing 'searching the storm for some frozen corn', which

has got to deserve a place in rock's list of classic misheard lyrics alongside

Elvis Costello's 'she is washing up the dishes, oh-oh don't get cute' and Jimi

Hendrix's "s'cuse me while I kiss this guy" !

Here's the instrumental section in A (i.e. exactly what you play if you're

using a capo at the 2nd fret) :

e --------------------------------------------------------------|
B --------------------------------------------------------------|
G --------------------------------------------------------------|
D ------------------------------------------9------11-----------|
A -------7--9--9-----7---(7/)9------11--12----------------------|
E ----9--------.--------9---------------------------------------|

(F#m) (E) (C#m) <-actual chords played, you could use...

...(Em) (D) (Bm) SHAPES, with capo@2

e ---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ----------------------------------------2----------------------------|
G -------------------------------2------4---2--------------------------|
D ----/16---/14---/11---9---7---6-----4--------------2--4--------4--6--|
A ---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------2------------2----------|

Any comments, corrections, improvements etc. welcome.

Nic

Nic.Boulton@mercury.co.uk

Comments

Spotted a wrong chord, or know a capo position that sounds closer to the record?

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