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Roof With a Hole

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

Song

Roof With a Hole

Written by Curt Kirkwood

Tabbed by: Halvor Wold

Album: Too high to die

Email: Wold.halvor@organizer.net

Intro Lick: Acoustic Guitar

------------------------------------------|
----------------------------10------------|
----------------9---11---------11---------|
---------7h9/11----------11-------11-11\\-|
-----7h9----------------------------------|
-7/9--------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------|
----------------9h11-9-----11p9----------|
---------7h9/11----------9------9-9\-----|
-----7h9---------------------------------|
-7/9-------------------------------------|

Repeat

Note: From here on out, the acoustic guitar mostly

improvises along with the chords. Therefore, I think

that it would be pure folly to tab exactly what Curt

played. The electric guitar is very well defined,

however, and has been notated.

Electric guitar:

-----------------------|
-10----10----9----9----|
-11----11----9----9----| 2x
-11----11----9----9----|
-9-----9-----7----7----|
-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
-x9---\4------4----4--6--7---|
-x9---\4------4----4--6--7---|
-x7---\2------2----2--4--5---|
-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|o--xx-9/11\9------5--4--2---------o| These dots mean to repeat
|o--xx-9/11\9------5--4--2--4------o|
|---xx-7/9-\7------3--2--0--4-------|
|---------------------------2-------|
-0---------|
-0---------|
-1---------|
-2---------|
-2---------|
-0---------|

Verse 1:

F#m

Well the colors are flowing

E

From the wall to the floor

F#m E

And only an outline still remains

B

Cause the roofs got a hole in it

C# D E F#m

And everything's been ruined by the rain

Verse 2: Same chords

There may be diamonds

In that dream on the hill

But the people that live there still complain

Cause the roofs got a hole in it

And everything is soaking in the rain

Solo: Acoustic Guitar

-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----9-------------9---------------------------------------|
-/11-----------/11----11\9--7------------------------------|
-------------------------------7--7h9--77-------\-------7--|
---------------------------------------------------7/9-----|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------------9--------|
---------7b---------------9br------------7--9/11-----------|
-7h9-----------9-------------------7h9---------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
------12------10-------------------------------------------|
-9h11----11p9----9h11----9-11-------9----------------------|
----------------------11------11-11---111p9-11p9-9\7---7---|
-----------------------------------------------------9---9-|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------/4---|
--------------------------------------------2--------------|
-7--7----7------4--3--2--0-----------0-22-4----------------|
----------------------------2b----2-----------0------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------|
-4p2-------------------------------------------------------|
------4--4-------------------2--4--------------------------|
-------------------------/4--------------------------------|
---------------2b--0---------------2-----------------------|

Verse 3: Same chords

No one can practice

Common sense that they see

Through the nickel and diming I'll explain

Well the roof's got a hole in it

And everything is ruined by the rain

Yeah my head's got a hole in it

And everything's been ruined by the rain

Ending:

-2---------0---------2---------|
-2---------0---------2---------|
-2---------1---------2---------|
-4---------2---------4---------|
-4---------2---------4---------|
-2---------0---------2---------|

Nothings beat Meat Puppets and Kirk Kirkwood

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