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Selfish Man

Flogging Molly
Tab
★4.6(5)

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

Song

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Band: Flogging Molly

Song: Selfish Man

Album: Swagger

/ a slide

~ tremolo

h hammer on

p pull off

' bend

This is, to my knowledge, the only tab of this on the internet. WOO!

gnuti seauton

Tab By RAMOHSE

Intro/chorus: (fiddle part)

e //17-17-17/19/17-15-12----//17-17-17/19/17-15~-----|

b ---------------------------------------------------|
g ---------------------------------------------------|
d ---------------------------------------------------|
a ---------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------------|
e //17-17-17/19/17-15-12------15-12~~~---------------|
b -------------------------15------------------------|
g ---------------------------------------------------|
d ---------------------------------------------------|
a ---------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------------|

Intro/chorus: acoustic guitar

Am - G - Am - G - Am - G - Em - C - Am

The rest of the intro is the same, only distorted with

lots of drums

Verse: (fiddle and bass only, no guitar)

e //5~~~~~-------------------------------------------|
b //5~~~~~-------------------------------------------|
g ---------------------------------------------------|
d ---------------------------------------------------|
a ---------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------------|

Just repeat that a few time, with a few tiny variations

Bass plays the intro/chorus notes.

Pre-Chorus: (fiddle)

e /8-7/8-10-10-8-7-8-7-3-----------------------------|
b -----------------------3--3--3--3~~~~--------------|
g ---------------------------------------------------|
d ---------------------------------------------------|
a ---------------------------------------------------|
E ---------------------------------------------------|

Pre-chorus: guitar

C - G - D - Am

C - G - D - D~~~~~

Then stop when Dave King says "Why I'm such a selfish man"

Then play the chorus/intro

Interlude: guitar

C - G - D - Em

C - G - Em - Em~~~~~

fiddle just messes around on the 8th fret high "e" string

Guitar Solo:

is just a run of the Am pentatonic, with variations on the high "e"

And that's it!

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