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Elysian Fields

Megadeth
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submitted but not authored by: L.Metcalfe@cm.cf.ac.uk (L Metcalfe)

____ ____ ___ ____

|Y\ /Y| ________ ________ ______ ________ _________ |YI |Y|

||\\ //|| |>----<| |>----<| /\ |>---<\ |>----<| |\-----/| ||| |||

||\\Y//|| ||T___\! ||T~~~\! //\\ ||T~~\\\ ||T___\! |/~TYT~\| ||l___|||

|||\Y/||| ||<-<] ||| ___ ///\\\ ||| ||| ||<-<] ||| ||<--->||

||| Y ||| ||l_____ ||l__|Y| //<==>\\ ||l__/// ||l_____ |||MAT |||~~~|||

||| ||| |^----<| |^--->|| ///~~~~\\\ |^---</ |^----<| /_Y_\ ||| |||

|^l |^l ~~~~~\| ~~~~~\|~~~ ~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~\l ~ ~ ~ |^l |^|

|/ ~~~ ! ! ! ~~~ \|

! !

Elysian Fields.

Megadeth

Youthansia.

Tabbed By Mat. 27th November 1994.

Note: Woah... These riffs kick butt!

Notation: h = Hammer; p = Pull; . = Palmute

\ = Slide down; / = Slide up; b = bend to note

x = Palmute whilst muffling strings with left hand.

tr= Trill.

Tempo approx. 145 4/4.

Intro:

------

(w.silly sound)

eb---|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Bb---|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Gb---|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Db---|--------------------------------|2-----------------------------/7|
Ab---|--------------------------------|2-----------------------------/7|
Eb---|--------------------------------|0-------------------------------|

Verse 1:

--------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------5-----------------|--------------------------------||
||--5-2---------5---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5---/7||
||--5-2---------3---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5---/7||
||--------0-0-0---------------0---|--------0-0-0-------0-------0---||

. . . . . . . . .

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------5-----------------|--------------------------------|
|--5-2---------5---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5-----|
|--5-2---------3---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5-----|
|--------0-0-0---------------0---|--------0-0-0-------0-------3-0-|

. . . . . . . . . .

Bridge :

--------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||6-----5-5-----------------------||6-----5-5-----------------------|
||4-----3-3-------------5-5-------||4-----3-3-----------------------|
||--3-----------4-4-----3-3---3---||--3-----------4---4---3---3-----|
||----2-----5-2-2-2-0-2-----5---5-||----2-----5-2-2---2-2-1---1-1-1-|

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chorus:

-------

* Slide from the 4 fret. Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||9-----8-----7-----6-----2---4p0-/5-5---4-----2-------------------||
||9-----9-----7-----7-----2---5p0-|5-5---5-----2--------7-5--------||
||----------------------0---------|----------------0-/44----0-/4-7-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||

.

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|9-----8-----7-----6-----------\-|5-----4-----2-------------------|
|9-----9-----7-----7-----------\-|5-----5-----2-------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-----------------/7|
|--------------------------------|------------------------------/5|

Verse 2:

--------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------5-----------------|--------------------------------||
||--5-2---------5---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5---/7||
||--5-2---------3---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5---/7||
||--------0-0-0---------------0---|--------0-0-0-------0-------0---||

. . . . . . . . .

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------5-----------------|--------------------------------|
|--5-2---------5---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5-----|
|--5-2---------3---------------/7|--5-2---------3---3---5---5-----|
|--------0-0-0---------------0---|--------0-0-0-------0-------3-0-|

. . . . . . . . . .

Bridge :

--------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||6-----5-5-----------------------||6-----5-5-----------------------|
||4-----3-3-------------5-5-------||4-----3-3-----------------------|
||--3-----------4-4-----3-3---3---||--3-----------4---4---3---3-----|
||----2-----5-2-2-2-0-2-----5---5-||----2-----5-2-2---2-2-1---1-1-1-|

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chorus:

-------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||9-----8-----7-----6-----2---4p0-/5-5---4-----2-------------------||
||9-----9-----7-----7-----2---5p0-|5-5---5-----2--------7-5--------||
||----------------------0---------|----------------0-/44----0-/4-7-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||

.

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|9-----8-----7-----6-----------\-|5-----4-----2-------------------|
|9-----9-----7-----7-----------\-|5-----5-----2-------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------5-6-7-|

.

Harmonica Solo:

---------------

Play 4x

||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||7-6-7~~~~~----5~~\--------------||
||----------5-6-----5-6-3~~~5-6-7-||

. . . . .

Chorus:

-------

Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||9-----8-----7-----6-----2---4p0-/5-5---4-----2-------------------||
||9-----9-----7-----7-----2---5p0-|5-5---5-----2--------7-5--------||
||----------------------0---------|----------------0-/44----0-/4-7-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||

.

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|9-----8-----7-----6-----------\-|5-----4-----2-------------------|
|9-----9-----7-----7-----------\-|5-----5-----2-------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Play 3x

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||9-----8-----7-----6-----2---4p0-/5-5---4-----2-------------------||
||9-----9-----7-----7-----2---5p0-|5-5---5-----2--------7-5--------||
||----------------------0---------|----------------0-/44----0-/4-7-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||

.

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|9-----8-----7-----6-----------\-|5-----4-----2-------------------|
|9-----9-----7-----7-----------\-|5-----5-----2-------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------0-------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

End.

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| Lee Metcalfe | E-Mail: scm2lm@cm.cf.ac.uk |

| University of Wales, College of Cardiff | Irc: Bud3 /

| Tied to machines that make me be -Metallica | XPilot: Bud3 /

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