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Pineapple Head

Crowded House
Tab
★4.7(8)

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

Intro motif - see tab at end

D G F C

Intro motif

VERSE 1:

D G F C

Detective is flat, no longer

D G F C

It's always flat out. Got the number of the

D G F C

Getaway car, didn't get

D G D D

Very far. [Bridge motif - see tab at end]

VERSE 2:

D G F C

As lucid as hell, these images

D G F C

Moving so fast, like a fever

D G F C

So close to the bone. I don't feel

D G D D

Too well. [Bridge motif]

CHORUS:

Em Em Em7 Em7

And if you choose

A2 A2 A A

To take that path

G G D D

I will play you like a shark

Gm6/Bb Gm6/Bb A7/E A7/E

And I'll clutch at your heart

G G D D

I'll come flying like a spark

F F E7sus4/G E7sus4/G

To inflame you...

D G F C

Intro motif

D G F C

Intro motif

VERSE 3:

Sleeping alone, for pleasure

The pineapple head, it spins and it spins

Like a number I hold, don't remember

If she was my friend. It was a long time

Ago. [Bridge motif]

CHORUS

D G F C

Intro motif

D G F C

Intro motif

D G F C

Intro motif

D Dsus4 D Dsus4

VERSE 4:

Sleeping alone, for pleasure

The pineapple head, it spins and it spins

Like a number I hold, don't remember

If she was my friend. It was a long time

Ago. [Bridge motif]

END CHORUS:

Em Em Em7 Em7

And if you choose

A2 A2 A A

To take that path

Em+2 Em+2 Em Em

Would you come to make me

Asus4 A A2 Asus4

Pay?

G G D D

I will play you like a shark

Gm6/Bb Gm6/Bb A7/E A7/E

And I'll clutch at your heart

G G D D

I'll come flying like a spark

F F E7sus4/G E7sus4/G

To inflame you...

G G D D

Gm6/Bb Gm6/Bb A7/E A7/E

I will clutch at your heart

G G D D

And come flying like a spark

F F E7sus4/G E7sus4/G

To inflame you...

CODA:

D G F C

Intro motif

D G F C

Intro motif

D G F C

Intro motif

D

TAB & CHORDS:

Intro Motif:

D G F C

|-5---3-2-----|-3-----------|-1-----------|-0h1p0---------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------3---1---|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|

Bridge Motif:

D G D D

|-5---3-2-----|-3-----------|-2-----------|-2p0-----0-----|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----3---------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------|

D : xx0232 Em : 022000 Gm6/Bb : x10330

G : 320003 Em7 : 022030 A7/E : 002020

F : 133211 A2 : x02200 E7sus4/G : 3x0200

C : x32010 A : x02220

\\\\ John Kean

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