Subbacultcha

Song

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- Pixies

transcribed by Adam Farmer <sce3159@cf.ac.uk>

the lyrics are at the bottom, you can work out

where they go by listening to the record. I've

split the song into sections and the arrangement

is below.

PART 1

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guitar 1

?---------------------------------------------|
?----------------------------------8----------|
?----------------------------------10(b)------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--------------|
?---0--0--3--0--0--3--0--0--3--3--------------|

add slight bend to the G notes

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PART 2

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guitar 1

?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------5-----------------------|
?---2--2--------5--5--3--0--------------------|
?---0--0--4--0--3--3--------------------------|

guitar 2

?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---10----------------------------------------|
?------------------------12-------------------|

play note at tenth fret, A string through two of

guitar one's progression, then slide down from 12

fret, E string. Play above through first verse

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PART 3

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guitar 1

?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------3-----------------------|
?---0--0--4--0--3--3-----0--------------------|

guitar 2 ?
:F7


??-------------?--------------?-----------------?

?-------------?-18(b)20------?-20-----------------------------------------------------------?
?-------------?--------------?------------21------------------------------------------------?

?-------------?--------------?--------------------------------------------------------------?

?-10----------?--------------?--------------------------------------------------------------?
?----------12-?-----------12-?--------------------------------------------------------------?

play guitar 1 thoughout second verse adding slight

bend to the fretted notes. ignore the spacing for

guitar 2, listen to the record for how to play them,

remember to slide down from second note.

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PART 4

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guitar 1

E chord throughout

guitar 2

?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---------------------------------------------|
?---10----------------------------------------|
?------------------------12-------------------|

play open E chord throughout play guitar 2 the same

as in PART 2.

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Part 1 x2

Part 2 through first verse

E chord while singing Subbacultcha

Part 3 through second verse

Part 4 through third verse

Lyrics :

This is a song about something there

There is something about this song

We did the clubs what ass

I was to have her in the sack

I was looking handsome

She was looking like an erotic vulture

I was all dressed in black

She was all dressed up in black

Everything was fine down here

What you call it here

Call it what you will here

Way down down down in this Subbacultcha

Her warm white belly in the life I'd lived had seen nothing

Finer she shakes and she moves me or something ?
:F7


?She's like jellyroll

sculpture

I was wearing eyeliner

She was wearing eyeliner

It was good down here

Saving for my scrapbook here

Way down down down in this Subbacultcha

Now we live on the sea and relax and ride the tack

Drug running on this panamanian schooner

She walks the deck in a black dress

And me I dress up in black

And we listen to the sea

And look at the sky in a poetic kind of way

What you call it

When you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way

You know when you grope for luna