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Bicycle Spaniard

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Tab
4.6(4)

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

Verse

C C Bm Am G

F C G

C

And it's a long

Bm Am G

Long way to the top

F C

But when you come down

G

It's one headlong rush

You've got an itch

To scratch the shiny bits of light

Hanging like stars

Hanging like stars

And Mary says

You're such a restless soul

My bicycle Spaniard

My magiare of coal (?)

You've got an inch to find

What's best left lost and cold

My bicycle Spaniard

My poor restless soul

When playing the lead, play riff 1 and then a G chord

twice, then riff 2 with F C G chords.

Riff 1

lead (simplified (there's a bit more sliding involved))

e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-6-7-6-----0-9---------|
D|--------8------8-9-----| (tremolo)
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

Riff 2

play that twice, then:

e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|-6-7-6---0-9-0--------------------------------------|
D|-------8-------7---7-10-----------------------------|
A|-----------------8------7---8-7---------------------|
E|--------------------------8-----8/10-3--------------|

/ slide up

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