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Cowboy Bebop - the Real Folk Blues

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Song

Title - The Real Folk Blues
Composer - Yoko Kanno
Performed by - Seatbelts feat. Mai Yamane
Album - Cowboy Bebop OST
This is the full version of the end theme from Cowboy Bebop. I found the Cowboy Bebop
OST Band score, but that didn't provide tabs or chord boxes - all electric guitar
parts were written in standard notation, and all acoustic guitar parts written with
chord names and slash notation. So I had to figure out an easy way of playing the
acoustic guitar chords. Here's what I came up with, as well as the lyrics and approx.
where the chords go in relation to them.
E A D G B e
F#m7 2 4 2 2 2 2
A x 0 2 2 2 0
Aadd9 x 0 2 2 0 0 or x 0 2 4 2 0
D#m7b5 x x 1 2 2 2
Dmaj7 x x 0 2 2 2
B7 x 2 4 2 4 2
E 0 2 2 1 0 0
Bm x 2 4 4 3 2
F#m9/C# x 4 2 2 2 4
C#7sus4 x 4 6 4 7 4
C#7 x 4 6 4 6 4
F#m 2 4 4 2 2 2
F#m7/E 0 4 2 2 2 2
B7/D# x x 1 2 0 2
C#7/E# x x 3 4 2 4
Aadd9/C# x 4 2 2 0 0
B7sus2 x 2 4 2 2 2
One of the trickiest fingerings is the B7/D# - C#7/E#. I play it using this fingering:
______ ______
||2||| ||||||
|||3|4 slide ||||1|
|||||| up to: ||2|||
|||||| |||3|4

Intro

      
      

Verse 1

Aishi-teta to nageku ni wa 
Amari ni mo toki wa sugi te shimatta 
Mada kokoro no hokorobi o 
Iyasenumama kaze ga fuiteru
 

Verse 2

Hitotsu no me de asu o mite 
Hitotsu no me de kinou mitsumeteru 
Kimi no ai no yurikagode 
Mo ichido yasurakani nemuretara

Pre-Chorus 1

Kawaita hitomi de dareka na itekure 

Chorus 1

The real folk blues
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
Ichido kiri de owarunara

Bridge

(F#m7) A Aadd9 A D#m7b5 Dmaj7
      

Verse 3

Kibou ni michita zetsuboto 
Wanagashikakerareteru kono chansu 
Nani ga yoku te warui no ka 
Koin no omoi to kuramitaita

Pre-chorus 2

Dore dake ikireba iyasareru no darou 

Chorus 2

The real folk blues
Honto no yorokobi ga shiritai dake
Hikaru mono no subete ga ougen to wa kagiranai
The real folk blues
Honto no kanashimi ga shiritaidake
Doro no kawa ni sukatta jinsei mo warukuwanai
Ichido kiri de owarunara

Interlude

(eight measures)

Outro

(repeat and fade)  
Questions, comments, etc. go to gatrief13@yahoo.com

Comments

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