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Song: So Long, Mrs. Smith

Band: The Matthew Good Band

Album: Raygun EP

Music and Lyrics by Matthew Good © 1996 dunharrow music / gennsongs /

emi april music (Canada) ltd. (SOCAN) Matthew Good

This is a really sweet sounding song. It's all acoustic, with two guitar tracks,

no drums or bass, and a capo on the second fret of both guitars. Here it is.

(In 3/3 time)

There is no intro, it goes straight into the first verse.

Guitar one is all chords, so I'll tab them out here.

-G --F#(?) - Emb7(?) - Am - ..C

-3- - -3- - - -3- - - -0- - -0-
-3- - -3- - - -3- - - -1- - -1-
-0- - -0- - - -0- - - -2- - -0-
-0- - -0- - - -2- - - -2- - -2-
-2- - -x- - - -2- - - -0- - -3-
-3- - -2- - - -0- - - --- - ---

Verse 1

Guitar 1

|///|///|/--|/--|///|///|/--|/--| >x4

....G ...F# .Em .......Am .C ..Em

Guitar 2

After 2 repeats of what is written above, guitar 2 plays

------|------|------|------|----0-|-----0-|------|------\
------|------|------|------|--0--0|--1p0-0|-=----|------ \
----0-|----0-|----0-|------|---2--|-------|----0-|------ ..\
---0--|---0--|---2--|------|------|-------|---2--|------ ../ x2
--2---|--0---|--2---|------|-2----|-3-----|--2---|------ /
-3----|-2----|-0----|-0----|------|-------|-0----|-0----/

Chorus

|///|///|///| \

-Am -C -Em --/ x2

Verse 2 Guitar 1 and 2 do the second half of the first verse.

Solo

Guitar 1 Repeats first part of verse indefinitely (song fades out at the end)

The tab is written as best I can determine until the song fades. The solo starts

in the third

bar of the section.

--------------|----------0-0-|0-----0---0-0-0-0-|0-----|
--------------|0-0h3-3-3/5-5-|5p3p0-0h1-1-1-1-0-|0-----|
---------0-0h2|--------------|------------------|------| cont. below
----0-0h2-----|--------------|------------------|------|
-0h2----------|--------------|------------------|------|
--------------|--------------|------------------|------|
--------|----------------|-----|--0--0|--0---0-0-0-|-0---0-0-0-|-0-0-
--------|----------------|-----|--3--0|--0h3-3-3-3-|-3p1-1-1-1-|-1-0-
------0-|----------------|-----|------|------------|-----------|-----
---0h2-2|2-2-2-0---------|-----|------|------------|-----------|-----
--------|-------2--------|-----|------|------------|-----------|-----
--------|--------0-0-3-2-|0----|------|------------|-----------|-----

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