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Been Smoking Too Long

Nick Drake
Tab
4.4(9)

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

Intro

Am (Amsus2) Am Am7 Am (Amsus2)

trill bend up

e|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|------------------|
B|---------0h1p0---|-0---1---------3>|----1-----------|-0---1------------|
G|-2------------2--|---------2-------|--------2-------|---------2--------|
D|-----2-----------|-----------------|------------2---|------------------|
A|-0-------0-------|-0-------------0-|----0-----------|-0----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|-------------0----|

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

F F E (Em) E7

trill

e|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-0---------------|
B|---------1--------|-1---1-----------|------------------|-----3-----------|
G|-2----------------|---------2-------|-1-------0h1p0----|---------1-------|
D|-----3-------3----|-------------3---|-----2--------2---|-----------------|
A|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
E|-1-------1--------|-1---1-----------|-0-------0--------|-0---0-------0---|

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

Am (Amsus2) Am Am7 Am Am

trill bend up

e|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----0-----------|
B|---------0h1p0----|-0---1-------3>--|----1------------|-1---------------|
G|-2------------2---|---------2-------|--------2--------|---------2-------|
D|-----2------------|-----------------|------------2----|-----------------|
A|-0-------0--------|-0-----------0---|----0------------|-0---0-----------|
E|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------0---|

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

F F E (Em) E7

trill bend up

e|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-0-----------------|
B|---------1--------|-1---1-----------|------------------|-----3--------3>---|
G|-2----------------|---------2-------|-1-------0h1p0----|---------1---------|
D|-----3-------3----|-------------3---|-----2--------2---|-------------------|
A|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-------------------|
E|-1-------1--------|-1---1-----------|-0-------0--------|-0---0--------0----|

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

E7

bend up

e|--------0---------|--------0--------|
B|--------------3>--|-----------------|
G|----1-------------|----1------------|
D|------------------|-----------------|
A|------------------|-----------------|
E|--------0-----0---|--------0--------|

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &

Am Am/G Am/F

Well I wake up in the morning

E Am

Look at my clock

Am/G Am/F

It's way past noon time

E

Now I'm late for work

Chorus

F

Tell me tell me

E Am

What have I done wrong?

Am/G

Ain't nothin' go right with me

F E Am Am/G Am/F

Must be I've been smokin' too long.

Little solo on E, E7 (bend up)

Well I go to find me some breakfast

But I ain't got no food

Take me a shower

But the water don't feel no good

Chorus

I've got opium in my chimney

No other life to choose

Nightmare made of hash dreams

Got the devil in my shoes

Chorus

Well when I'm smokin'

Put my worries on a shelf

Don't think about nothin'

Try not to see myself

Chorus

Well in this blues I'm singin'

There's a lesson to be learnt

Don't go around smokin'

Unless you want to get burnt

Tell me tell me

What have I done wrong?

Ain't nothin' go right with me

Must be I've been smokin' too

Ain't nothin' go right with me

Must be I've been smokin' too

Ain't nothin' go right with me

Must be I've been smokin' too long.

Tab by Mike Healey (email: michael.healey@balliol.ox.ac.uk)

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