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Fools

Deep Purple
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Song

Deep Purple,Fools.

Tabbed by Andrew,beat70boy@yahoo.de.

Fools

(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

>From "Fireball", 1971

intro 1:

e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------4-2--------------
A|----------------7\4--2/4------7\4--------------------4------------
E|--4/7--4/7--4/7-----------4/7------7\4--2/4-7\4---------4/7-------

intro 2 (fingerpick):

e|---------------                -------
B|---------------                ---0---
G|--------4------    adding some -4---4- unisono variations
D|-----4-----4---                -------
A|--2------------                -------
E|---------------                -------

(troughout)

I'm crying -- I'm dying

verse 1:

e|-------------------------------------------              ---------
B|-------------------------------------------              ---------
G|-------------------------------------------  last one    ---------
D|------7/9---7/9---7---------7/9---7--------  ending with ---------
A|--9---5/7---5/7---5-9---9---5/7---5-7-9\---              --7------
E|--7-----------------7---7-----------5-7\---              --5------

I can see what's wrong with me -- It's in my head

I can see what's gonna be -- As I lie in my bed

Man is not my brotherhood -- I am of the dead

e|----------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------5---
G|-----------------------------------------------------------(7)b9
D|----------------------------7-----------------------------------
A|-----------------------7h9----7---5-4-5-4h5p4-------------------
E|--5-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-7--------------------------5-7--10-9\0-------

I died as I lived as I loved and was born

On some distant hill

The reasons to hide were the reasons I cried

Fools pass laughing still

verse 2:

There can be bad blood in all I can see -- It's in my brain

You don't know the pain I feel -- As I must live again

Rocks and stones can't bruise my soul but tears will leave a stain

They smile to themselves as they lay down my head

On some distant hill

The blind and the child sweep a tear from their eye

Fools smile as they kill

Ritchie's solo, done with volume knob acrobatics, bit tricky:

e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------
D|--2-----2---4-5-7---5-4-0---2-4-2------2---4-5-7---0---9-7-5-7-0--
A|------------------------------------------------------------------
E|------------------------------------------------------------------
e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------
D|--0---2-0-----4---2-0---0-------------0-----2---0-----------------
A|----------0-----------4---2-----2---3---0---------3-0---2---------
E|------------------------------------------------------------------
e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--5---7---5---7---5-------------------------------5---------------
G|--------7-------7-----7-6-----------4-6---7-6------76-4-----4-----
D|--------------------------7-----7-------4-----6-7-------7------4--
A|------------------------------------------------------------------
E|------------------------------------------------------------------
e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------7-5-4-------------
D|--------0-----2-0---------------2---4-5-7---0---------5-7---------
A|--2---3-----------2---0-------------------------------------------
E|----------3---------------3---------------------------------------
e|------------------------------------------------------------------
B|------------------------------------------------------------------
G|------4-5-7-------------------------------------------------------
D|--7-----------4---7-5-2-0-----0---2-------------------------------
A|------------------------------------------------------------------
E|------------------------------------------------------------------

verse 3:

I got my own way to go and now I want -- To take your minds

I believe if you could see -- The blood between the lines

I believe that you could be -- A better kind

Please lead the way so the unborn can play

On some greener hill

Laugh as the flames eat their burning remains

Fools die laughing still

Henry Leyh

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