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From: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk
T H E P E R S O N Y O U A R E
by John Wesley Harding
from the album "The Name Above The Title"
Key: G major
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INTRO: G D C D
(D) Em
I put my forehead to the door
G D
I heard the famous sound of infidelity
Em
Looks like I've loved and lost once more
G D
Oh, but all's fair in love and war, supposedly
C
I couldn't even burst in on you
G D
See scrabbling sheets or your excuse
C G D
Give you the evil eye or verbal abuse
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
RIFF A: G D C D G D C D
(D) Em
I slammed my glass down on the bar
G D
My problems, they hit the floor so gracefully
Em
I don't know where I parked the car
G D
That's okay; tonight I'm on the town without me
C
Tonight it's just me and my evil twin
G D
The one who slips one more drink in
C G D
The one who slips away when I start sinking
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING TWICE
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
G D
They hurt the person you are
C D
The person you are
G D
The person you are
C D
The person you are
RIFF B: G D C D G D C D
(D) Em
Got a job to pay the rent
G D
Put people out of work by repositioning
Em
Now no-one's sitting on the fence
G D
Whose garden will we end up sitting in?
C
It's getting much to hard to heal the sky
G D
It stings too much to open up our eyes
C G D
To fundamental truths that we hold as lies
G C G
Why do you do what you do \
C G |
When the things that you do |- PLAY & SING FOUR TIMES
C D |
Hurt the person you are? /
G D
They hurt the person you are
C D
The person you are
G D
The person you are
C D
The person you are
G D C D G D C D G
The person............... person............... person...... yeay.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OUTRO ON LEAD GUITAR
-- T H E E N D --
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
L E A D G U I T A R T A B S
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I N T R O
~~~~~~~~~
G D C
||-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8---| ||--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8---------------| ||--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9---------------------| ||--S----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| ||--T----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------| ||-- ----------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D
|-------------------------| |-------------------------| |--7----------------------| |-------------------------| |-------------------------| |-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
R I F F B
~~~~~~~~~~~
G D C
|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----| |--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------| |--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------| |--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D G D
|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-| |--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------| |--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------| |-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
C D
|-------------10-----8----|-------- ----------------| |--------8----------------|--7--7--R----------------| |--9----------------------|--7--7--E----------------| |-------------------------|--------S----------------| |-------------------------|--------T----------------| |-------------------------|-------- ----------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O U T R O
~~~~~~~~~
G D C
|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-|-------------10-----8----| |--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------|--------8----------------| |--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------|--9----------------------| |--S----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |--T----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------| |-- ----------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D G D
|--------------7----------|-- --7-------------------|-----------------7--8-10-| |--------8----------10----|--R----10--8-10--8--7--8-|--------7--8-10----------| |--7----------------------|--E----------------------|--7--9-------------------| |-------------------------|--S----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--T----------------------|-------------------------| |-------------------------|-- ----------------------|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
C D G
|-------------10-----8----|--------------7----------|--7---------------------|| |--------8----------------|--------8----------10----|--8---------------------|| |--9----------------------|--7----------------------|--7---------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------|| |-------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------||
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
O P T I O N A L R H Y T H M G U I T A R P A R T F O R R I F F A
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Normally played on piano)
^
G ^ D ^ C
|--------3----------------|--------2----------------|-------------------------| |--------0----------------|--------3----------------|--1----------------------| |--------0----------------|--------2----------------|--0----------------------| |--------0--------------0-|-------------------------|--2----------------------| |--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-|--3-----2-----0----------| |--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|--------------------3----|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
D ^ ^ h G ^ D ^
|--------2-----0--2-------|--------3----------------|--------2----------------| |--------3-----3----------|--------0----------------|--------3----------------| |--------2-----2----------|--------0----------------|--------2----------------| |--0----------------------|--------0--------------0-|-------------------------| |-------------------------|--------2----------------|-----------------0--0--2-| |-------------------------|--3-----------3--2--3----|-------------------------|
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 .
^ ^
C D
|-------------------------|--2------------------------| This section was |--1----------------------|--3------------------------| invented by me |--0----------------------|--2------------------------| around the part |--2----------------------|--0------------------------| played with the |--3-----2-----0----------|---------------------------| piano at this |--------------------3----|---------------------------| point in Wes's
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . recording.
Notes:
* `^' means downstroke, `h' means hammer-on.
* In the 4th bar of this section, the 3rd beat and it's half-beat can
either be played using the hammer-on to the treble note as shown above
(in which case the chord on the 3rd beat becomes Dsus2), which is one
of my personal favourite colourings, or the normal D fingering can be
retained, with a downstroke on the 3rd beat and an upstroke on the
following half-beat.
* Don't worry unduly about playing only those strings shown in the tabs
when doing downstrokes with your plectrum or thumb. In particular the
C chord strums are shown with the treble-E string not played, but this
isn't always easy to get right, so don't worry, be happy :-)
* A reasonably flexible but reasonably firm pick/plectrum is best if you
want to do this riff (IMHO).
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
G E N E R A L N O T E S
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1. If you are playing solo, then the most important thing is to keep up
the rhythm and chords, so you can forget the lead guitar solo parts.
I like to use the last 4 bars of the OPTIONAL RHYTHM PART FOR RIFF A
as my intro, and obviously stick to the RIFF A after the first verse,
using it again after the second verse, where the recording has RIFF B.
In place of the OUTRO, I just strum the chords of the rhythm guitar
part, allowing the words (person... person... person... yeay) to hold
the flow of the ending, and then finish with a flourish.
2. As always, learn the rhythm of the song from the recording.
3. Enjoy!
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C H O R D S
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G chord D chord
e||---|---|-o-| G e||---|-o-|-----| F# B||---|---|---| B B||---|---|-o---| D G||---|---|---| G G||---|-o-|-----| A D||---|---|---| D D||---|---|-----| D A||---|-o-|---| B A||---|---|-----| A E||---|---|-o-| G E||---|-x-|-----| either use thumb on 2nd fret
or don't play bass-E string
C chord Em chord
e||---|---|---| E e||---|---|-----| E B||-o-|---|---| C B||---|---|-----| B G||---|---|---| G G||---|---|-----| G D||---|-o-|---| E D||---|-o-|-----| E A||---|---|-o-| C A||---|-o-|-----| B E||---|---|---| E E||---|---|-----| E
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